Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism: Thought, Language, Culture, by Roland Faber, Jeffrey Bell, and Joseph Petek, Eds, (Edinburgh University Press) reconsiders Whitehead’s book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect.
The following article also appears in issue 39.1 of Process Perspectives. 2016 WRP Conference: A Whiteheadian Laboratory by Joseph Petek As the lead organizer of the last couple of WRP’s conferences, my most vivid impressions of our most recent event have to do with the way it confounded my planning and expectations.
Agreement With Presses to Publish Critical Edition It is our great pleasure to announce that the editorial board of the Critical Edition of Whitehead has come to an agreement with Edinburgh University Press to publish the print edition of the published and unpublished works of Alfred North Whitehead. Moreover, through an agreement with Oxford University… Read More News: Critical Edition
Inauguration of the Critical Edition of Whitehead It is our pleasure to announce that the Whitehead Research Project has begun work on the Critical Edition of Whitehead, which will for the first time make available, in both print and digital format, the complete published and unpublished writings of Alfred North Whitehead. Initial work will focus… Read More News: Critical Edition
James Bradley Passed Away (May 31, 2012) It is with great sadness that we report the death of James Bradley, Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. James passed away on May 17th, 2012. James was on the International Board of Academic Advisors for the… Read More Death of James Bradley
Thinking in a Whiteheadian Mode (December 12, 2011) Jay McDaniel, Professor of Religion at Hendrix College, scholar of Whitehead, and author of the website Jesus, Jazz, and Buddhism (JJB), provides an interesting reflection on what it means to be a process thinker, and reviews the variety of vantage points represented at WRP’s fifth international conference,… Read More News: Jay McDaniel
Roland Faber will deliver the keynote address at a Library of Congress symposium on Whitehead: “Three Hundred Years of Whitehead: Halfway” Professor Roland Faber, Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb Jr. Professor of Process Studies, has been invited to lecture at the Library of Congress on February 17. This keynote address, given to the larger public, will… Read More News: Roland Faber to Speak
The Whitehead Research Project sadly reports the death of Reiner Wiehl, philosopher and Whitehead expert at the University of Heidelberg. Professor Wiehl died on December 30, 2010, at the age of 81. He served as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg since 1976, where lectured and wrote on Kant, Whitehead, and existentialism. Together… Read More News: Death of Reiner Wiehl
Inauguration of the Critical Edition of Whitehead (September 11, 2010) It is our pleasure to announce that the Whitehead Research Project (WRP) has secured permission from A. N. Whitehead’s estate to begin editing his published and unpublished academic writings. With this very welcome news we also announce the inauguration of the Critical Edition of Whitehead,… Read More News: Critical Edition Inaugurated
Roland Faber Named Chair of Process Studies, Will Give Inaugural Lecture The Claremont School of Theology and the Center for Process Studies are pleased to announce the inauguration of Dr. Roland Faber as the Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb Professor of Process Studies. Dr. Faber’s inauguration will be commemorated by a lecture and celebration on April… Read More News: Roland Faber Process Studies Chair
