Agency and Process Thought

Basile, Pierfrancesco, "Rethinking Leibniz: Whitehead, Ward and the Idealistic Legacy." Process Studies 35, no. 2 (2006 Fall-Winter): 207-29. 

Bennett, John B. “Personal Agency.” In “Whitehead's Philosophy of Personal Experience.” Diss., Yale University, 1969, 146-206. 

_____. “Process or Agent: A Response.” Philosophy of Religion and Theology (1972): 146-59. [Abstract on Process Studies 3, no.1 (Spring 1973): 65-66.]

Bogaard, Paul A. and Gordon Treash, eds. Metaphysics as Foundation: Essays in Honor of Ivor Leclerc. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.  [abstract]

Brizee, Robert. "Process Relational Psychotherapy:  Creatively Transforming Relationships.”  Process  Studies 29:1 (Spring –Summer 2000):  151-167. [Agency, Psychology, Relationality]

_____. "So Then, Where is Hope Today?" (unpubl.) [Agency, Creativity]

Browning, D. “Whitehead's Theory of Human Agency.” Dialogue 2 (1963-64): 424-41. [Agency, Ethics, Self]

Christian, William A. “Comments on ‘Form, Concrescence, and Concretum: A Neo-Whiteheadian Analysis’” by George L. Kline, At the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1968, [Conference Paper]. 

Clayton, Philip. “Systematizing Agency: Toward a Panentheistic-Participatory Theory of Agency.” (System and Life: Schleiermacher and Whitehead Conference, March 6-8, 2003) [Agency, Panentheism]

_____. “Systematizing Agency: Toward a Panentheistic-Participatory Theory of Agency.” In Schleiermacher and Whitehead: Open Systems in Dialogue (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004), 215-233. [Agency, Panentheism]

Code, Murray. "Bodies, Minds, and Souls: On Putting Life Back into Nature" Process Studies 35, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2006): 230-69. [Agency, Emergence]

Douglas, Peter. “Whitehead and the Problem of Compound Individuals.” Process Studies 33, no.1 (Spring-Summer 2004): 80-109. [Agency, Emergence]

Earley, Joseph. “Self-Organization and Agency: In Chemistry and in Process Philosophy.” Process Studies 11, no.4 (Winter, 1981): 242-58. [abstract] [Agency, Science]

Edwards, Rem Blanchard. Freedom, Responsibility, and Obligation. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1969. [abstract]

Frisina, Warren G. The Unity of Knowledge and Action: Toward a Nonrepresentational Theory of Knowledge. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. [abstract]

Khandker, Wahida. "Two Natures: Whitehead on Bergsonism, Dualism, and Becoming-Subject." Process Studies 36, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2007): 245-71. [abstract] 

Kirkpatrick, Frank G. “Process or Agent: Models for Self and God.”  Thought, Fordham University Quarterly 48, 188 (1973): 33-60. [Agency, God Concepts, Self]

Kucheman, Clark, ed. The Life of Choice: Some Liberal Religious Perspectives on Morality. Boston: Beacon Press, 1978 [abstract]. 

Ford, Lewis S. “Whitehead on Subjective Agency: A Response to Edward Pols.” The Modern Schoolman 49 (1972): 151-52.

_____. “Can Whitehead Provide for Real Subjective Agency? A Reply to Edward Pols's

_____. Review of Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality. eds. Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile. Process Studies 36, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2007): 362-64.

_____. "Rigid and Non-Rigid Forms." Process Studies 36, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2007): 272-90. [abstract] 

_____.Critique.” Modern Schoolman 47, no.2 (Jan. 1970): 209-25. [Abstract on Process Studies 1, no.1 (Spring 1971): 72-73.

Gale, Richard M. "Disanalogies between Space and Time." Process Studies 25 (1996): 73-89.[Analytic Philosophy, Agency, Time and Space, Language]

Hurley, Patrick J. “Bergson and Whitehead on Freedom.”  Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 50 (1976): 107-17. [abstract] [Agency, Bergson, Freedom]

Ichiro, Hirata. “Otherness in Whitehead; Tradition, Freedom and Responsibility,” (unpubl.).

Kirkpatrick, Frank G. “Process or Agent: Models for Self and God.”  Thought 48 (Spr 1973): 33-60. [abstract] [Agency, God Concepts, Self]

Lango, John W. "Whitehead's Dertivative Notion of Societies." Process Studies 36, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2007): 88-107.

Lewis, Delmas. “Timelessness and Divine Agency.” International Journal for Philosophy of Relgion 22 (1987): 143-59. [Agency, Power, Time]

Mason, David R. “Can We Speculate on How God Acts?” (Unpubl.) [abstract] [Agency, Causality, God Concepts]

Mattea, James. “The Strange Case of the Infected Essences.”  Philosophy and Theology 3 (Spring 1989): 265-82. [abstract]

Moore, Harold, Robert Neville, and William Sullivan. "The Contours of Responsibility: A New Model." Man and World 5 (November 1972): 392-420. [Agency, Ecology, Evolution, Ethics, Social Theory]

Polkinghorne, John. “Embodied Existence: Agency.” In Book article to Scientists As Theologians, 26-41. London: SPCK, 1996. [Agency, Science and Religion, Divine Power]

Pols, Edward. The Acts of Our Being: A Reflection on Agency and Responsibility (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1982) [missing from CPS library]

_____. “Freedom and Agency: A Reply.”  The Southern Journal of Philosophy 7 (Winter 1969-70): 415-419. [abstract] [Agency, Freedom]

_____. “Human Agents as Actual Beings.” Process Studies 8, no.2 (Summer, 1978): 103-13.

_____. “Human Agents as Fundamental Entities.” (Unpubl.) [abstract]

_____. Meditation on a Prisoner: Towards Understanding Action and Mind. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1975. [abstract]

_____. “Power and Agency.” International Philosophical Quarterly 11, no.3 (Sept. 1971): 293-313. [Abstract: Process Studies 2:2 (Summer 1972): 177.

Rescher, Nicholas. "Causal Necessitation and Free Will" Process Studies 35, no. 2 (2006 Fall-Winter): 193-206.

Whittier, Duane H. Review of "The Acts of Our Being: A Reflection on Agency and Responsibility", by Edward Pols. In Process Studies 16, no. 1 (Spring, 1987): 49-53.