Griffin, David Ray.  “Being Bold: Anticipating a Whiteheadian Century.”  The Journal of Whitehead Studies 1 (1998): 15-34.

Abstract

Whitehead sought to contribute to the general good by boldly developing a new cosmology that integrates science with our religious, aesthetic, and ethical intuitions, so that these intuitions, which at their best lead us to promote the common good, will not be undermined by the view that science show them, along with human freedom, to be illusory. We Whiteheadians should boldly act as if we expected this cosmology to become the dominant worldview in the 21st century.

Although a sociological view would make this prospect seem extremely unlikely, there are some objective reasons to expect it (if we act so as to bring it about). First, thanks to Whitehead's nonreductionist naturalism, his position can overcome the current impasse in the academy between naturalistic reductionism and methodological dualism. Second, his position provides naturistic solutions to many currently recognized problems, such as the mind-body problem(with its questions of how to explain mental causation, freedom, and the emergence of conscious experience) and two problems within evolutionary theory: the evidence from the fossil record that new species have emerged suddenly(which conflicts with the gradualism implied by neo-Darwinism) and the existence of time prior to the rise of life.