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This book newly articulates the international and interdisciplinary reach of Whitehead's organic process cosmology for a variety of topics across science and philosophy, and in dialogue with a variety historical and contemporary voices. Integrating Whitehead's thought with the insights of Bergson, James, Pierce, Merleau-Ponty, Descola, Fuchs, Hofmann, Grof and many others, contributors from around the world reveal the relevance of process philosophy to physics, cosmology, astrobiology, ecology, metaphysics, aesthetics, psychedelics, and religion. A global collection, this book expresses multivocal possibilities for the development of process cosmology after Whitehead.
List of contents
Editor's Introduction: Mediations for a New Epoch.- PART I: PHYSICS & COSMOLOGY.- 1. Process Physics: Toward an Organismic, Neo-Whiteheadian Physics, Jeroen B. J. van Dijk.- 2. Extending Whiteheadean Organic Cosmology to a Comprehensive Science of Nature.- Attila Grandpierre.- 3. Outlines of a Speculative Cosmology: Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism meets Descola's Four Anthropological Dispositions towards Nature, Otávio S. R. D. Maciel.- PART II: ONTOLOGY & ECOLOGY.- 4. The Ontology of Ecology, Maria-Teresa Tiexiera.- 5. A Universe of Subjects: Process Cosmology and Deep Ecology, Wm. Andrew Schwartz.- 6. Eastern Traditions, Western Science and Whitehead.,John Pickering.- PART III: PLURALITY & PERSPECTIVISM.- 7. Cosmology and Meseology: Whitehead and the Plurality of Worlds, Rodrigo Petronio.- 8. Cosmic Epochs of Vigorous Order, Luís Morais.- 9. Truth and Reality in Whitehead's Metaphysics, Glen Veitch.- PART IV: POSSIBILITY & MENTALITY.- 10. Rethinking Whitehead's Cosmology through the Cosmogonic Philosophy of C.S. Peirce: Speculation on the Origins of the Actual and the Metaphysical Primacy of the Possible, Philip Rose.- 11. Jamesian Gifts and Whiteheadian Data: Selecting a Future, John Becker.- 12. A Process-Oriented Approach to Mental Causation, Friedrich Sieben.- PART V: TEMPORALITY & CREATIVITY.- 13. Grasping Epochal Time: A Process Phenomenological Approach.- Andrew Kirkpatrick.- 14. Bergson: from Virtual Action to the Melody of Time, Pedro Nuno Pereira Lopes.- 15. Whitehead and Bergson on Creativity and Stagnation in Art.- Milos Sevcík.- PART VI: EXPERIENCE & RELIGION.- 16. Whitehead, Grof and Psychedelics, John Buchanan.- 17. Exceptional Human Experience and the Potential for New Cosmology, Lenny Gibson.- 18. Whiteheadian Cosmotheology: Platonic Entities, Divine Realities and Shared Extraterrestrial Values, Andrew M. Davis.
About the author
1. Andrew M. Davis is program director for the Center for Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology at Willamette University. He is author or editor of several books, including most recently Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy (2020). Follow his work at andrewmdavis.info.
2. Maria-Teresa Teixeira is a researcher at Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
3. Wm. Andrew Schwartz is Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies, Assistant Professor of Process Studies and Comparative Theology at Claremont School of Theology at Willamette University and Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of the Institute for Ecological Civilization (ecociv.org).
