Tag: Alfred North Whitehead
The Center for Process Studies (CPS) library and archives, the world’s largest collection of materials on process thought, has found a new home at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC)! The materials, including notable collections like the Whitehead papers and John Cobb's library, are being sorted, preserved, and integrated with SIUC’s…
- Wm. Andrew Schwartz
- General Announcement
In this blog post, I analyze the chemical transformation of molecules from two metaphysical perspectives: substance metaphysics of the sort advanced by Aristotle and later by medieval Scholastic philosophers, such as Thomas Aquinas, and process metaphysics, especially that of Alfred North Whitehead. At the end of the day, we will…
My trip to Harvard for the Center for Process Studies conference celebrating 100 years of process thought gave me occasion to reflect not only on Whitehead’s legacy, but on his resonances with Emerson and their shared vision of philosophical education.…
- Matthew David Segall
- Report
The philosophy of organism of Alfred North Whitehead provides an effective metaphysical framework for transpersonal psychology because of his integration of subjective, objective, and transpersonal experience within one integrated cosmos, his argument that existence is made up of dynamic events that are both mental and physical, his unification of body…
Do you have an idea for an article engaging various streams of process thinking or dealing with some of the major topic areas of Center for Process Studies (ecological civilization, deep religious pluralism, religion & science, philosophy of psychedelics, cosmology, transdisciplinary research, etc.)? We'd love to hear your proposals!…
- Andrew M. Davis
- General Announcement
Although process theology has always been a diverse phenomenon, its historical prevalence as a movement within Protestant Christianity surely extends from Whitehead’s own concern for “the tale of the Christian religion” as beholden to “the leaders of the protestant clergy.” As evidenced in a chapter titled “The New Reformation” in…
The intention behind the organization of this conference is to give scholars interested in the idealist aspects of Whitehead’s philosophy the opportunity to discuss and assess the relevance of the various strands of the idealist tradition to Whitehead’s metaphysics and to process metaphysics generally, as well as the relevance of…
- Bogdan Rusu
- Call for Papers
We’re all in the process of making sense of our reality. Finding ourselves in an environment already filled with symbols, meanings, and stories, we naturally join in this meaning-making activity. We have moments of clarity on this journey in which the complex narratives that flood our world make sense. Contrasts…
Veronika Krajíčková is working on a proposal for the book Understanding Whitehead, Understanding Modernism which would be published under the Bloomsbury series Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism. If you are working in the field of Whitehead and art/aesthetics/literature with the focus on modernism and you might be interested in contributing to…
- Veronika Krajíčková
- Call for Papers
Drops and Buds, an electronic journal dedicated to the exploration and application of Stanislav and Christina Grof's work, transpersonal breathwork, and the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, is currently accepting submissions.…
- Ronit LeMon
- Call for Papers