Tag: Alfred North Whitehead
This free, three-day virtual conference, co-hosted by the Whitehead Research Project and Gonzaga University, will examine the significance of the two recently published volumes of Whitehead’s Essays and Articles (EA1 and EA2), part of the Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead. The conference will take…
The Whitehead Research Project invites scholars to submit abstracts that explore the significance of the two recently published volumes of Whitehead’s Essays and Articles (EA1 and EA2). What do these essays and articles, some of which have been published for the first time, reveal about Whitehead’s philosophy and its development?…
- Call for Papers
In this process pop-up, Christie Byers will explore what it might mean to teach science as if the world were alive. Drawing on Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, she shares an approach to elementary science education that shifts away from viewing nature as inert and mechanical, and toward experiencing it…
- Lynn Sargent De Jonghe
- Process Century Press
Bill Gayner will lead a guided contemplation using as a starting point an excerpt from Whitehead’s chapter on philosophic method in Adventures of Ideas. We will then reflect on and discuss the experience including perhaps how these kinds of micropractices can scale up to support professional sensibilities and reflective learning,…
The philosopher George Allan—in three well-written books in philosophy of education—applies the Homo Ludens hypothesis to education, especially to higher education. College education at its best is a type of dynamic play. Allan’s contribution to the Homo Ludens hypothesis has been underappreciated. Allan often relies on the process thought found…
The latest issue of Process Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1) brings together six original articles that push the boundaries of process thought across philosophy, science, and metaphysics. This issue features Randall Auxier on Susanne Langer’s theory of image and gestalt, Traill Dowie and Julien Tempone-Wiltshire on the intersections of process…
- Center for Process Studies
- General Announcement
The difference between the sacred and the secular may be more a matter of how than what—specifically, the quality of time and the depth of relation we bring to whatever is before us. Inspired by a recent dream about sacred secularity, Bruce Alderman explores what Raimon Panikkar's tempiternity, Martin Buber's…
The conference Whitehead for Education, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences: In Pursuit of a Metamorphosis of Pedagogy, held in Katowice, Poland on September 25, 2025, was met with an exceptionally positive response and exceeded initial expectations. A further significant outcome of the conference is the decision by the editors…
- Call for Papers
The 14th International Whitehead Conference will be held July 17–20, 2026, in Zhuhai, China, at Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU). This global gathering of scholars, educators, and practitioners marks a pivotal moment to engage Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy in dialogue with the pressing challenges and transformative opportunities of the…
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