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Whitehead, which will for the first time make available, in both print and digital format, the complete published and unpublished writings of Alfred North Whitehead.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
It is our pleasure to announce the publication of the third volume of the Contemporary Whitehead Studies series: Foundations of Relational Realism: A Topological Approach to Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Nature. In this unique two-part volume, designed to be comprehensible to both specialists and non-specialists, the authors chart out a pathway forward by… Read More New Book: Foundations of Relational Realism
Experience & Reality: Thinking with Whitehead and American Pragmatism In keeping with its mission to analyze the relevance of Whitehead’s thought in dialogue with contemporary philosophies, the Whitehead Research Project is hosting it’s sixth international conference to explore current lines of congruence and tension between American pragmatism and contemporary Whitehead scholarship. This conference will encourage… Read More Upcoming Conference: Experience and Reality
The Contemporary Whitehead Studies series is pleased to announce its third volume: Foundations of Relational Realism: Quantum Mechanics, Category Theory, and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Forthcoming in 2013, in this unique two-part volume, designed to be comprehensible by both specialists and non-specialists, the authors demonstrate that the decoherent histories interpretation of quantum mechanics,… Read More New Book: Foundations of Relational Realism
Sixth International Conference: Call For Graduate Student Papers The Whitehead Research Project announces its Sixth International Conference, entitled “Experience & Reality: Thinking with Whitehead and American Pragmatism,” to be held at Claremont Graduate University on November 29-December 1, 2012. This conference will explore current lines of congruence and tension between American pragmatism, classical American philosophy,… Read More Call for Papers: Experience and Reality
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
We are pleased to announce the second volume of the Contemporary Whitehead Studies series: Butler on Whitehead: On the Occasion. This volume is based on the first set of formal conversations which brings together the dynamic philosophies of two eminent thinkers: Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead. READ MORE »
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
Nature and Logos: A Whiteheadian Key to Merleau-Ponty’s Fundamental Thought, by William S. Hamrick and Jan Van der Veken A. N. Whitehead and Social Theory: Tracing a Culture of Thought, by Michael Halewood
A. N. Whitehead and Social Theory: Tracing a Culture of Thought by Michael Halewood “This book outlines Whitehead’s philosophy, using it to reorient a range of specific questions and topics within contemporary social theory, namely: the relation of language and the body; the relationship between the individual and society; sexual difference; conceptions of nature; the… Read More New Books: Nature and Logos; Whitehead and Social Theory
