Process Thought and North American Philosophers

Anderson, Douglas R. "William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 597-603. [abstract]

Babcock, Edward.  “A Comparison of the Divine Human Relationship in the Writings of Jonathan Edwards and Charles Hartshorne.”  Ph.D. Dissertation. Baylor University, 1983.

Brahinsky, David M.  “Metaphysical Generality and the Principle of Ontological Parity:  An Examination of the Ontology of Justus Buchler in Comparison with the Cosmology of Alfred North Whitehead.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.  State University of New York at Binghamton, 1976. [North American Philosophers, Metaphysics]

Broyer, John A.  “A Final Visit with Henry Nelson Wieman.”  (unpubl.) [North American Philosophers, Empirical Theology]

Buchanan, John H.  “The Transpersonal Thought of William James.” (unpubl.) [North American Philosophers, Psychology]

Capek, Milic.  “The Reappearance of the Self in the Last Philosophy of William James.”  Philosophical Review 62, no.4 (Oct 1953): 526-44.

Castiglione, Robert L.  "Paul Weiss (1901-2002)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 619-625. [abstract]

_____. “The Reality of the Past:  A Comparison of the Philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and Paul Weiss.”  Ph.D. Dissertation. Catholic University of America, 1971.

Chang, Yen-Ling.  “The Problem of Emergence:  Mead and Whitehead.”  Kinesis 2 (1970): 69-80.  [abstract] [North American Philosophers, Creativity, Emergence]

Chapman, J. Harley and Nancy K. Frankenberry, eds.  Interpreting Neville.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.  [Neville].

Cobb, John B., Jr.  “A Challenge to American Theology and Philosophy.”  American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 15, no.2 (May 1994): 123-36.

Cook, Gary. A. "George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 449-456. [abstract]

_____. “Whitehead’s Influence on the Thought of G.H. Mead.”  Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 15, no. 2 (Spring 1979): 107-131. [North American Philosophers, Whitehead]

Dean, William.  “The American Enlightenment and Process Theology.” (unpubl.)

Decock, Lieven. "Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008). 498-504. [abstract]

Dewey, John.  “The Philosophy of Whitehead.”  In The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, ed. Paul A. Schilpp (La Salle: Open Court Publishing Co., 1941), 641-61.

_____.  “Whitehead’s Philosophy.”  Philosophical Review 46 (1937): 170-77.

Dombrowski, Daniel A.  “Arete, Rorty, and Hartshorne.”  In The Philosophy of Vegetarianism (Amherst:  University of Massachusetts Press, 1984), 121-39.

_____.  “Thomas Nagel as a Process Philosopher.”  American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 15, no.2 (May, 1994): 163-80.

Donnelley, Strachan.  “Whitehead and Hans Jonas:  Organism, Causality, and Perception.”  International Philosophical Quarterly 19, no.3 (September 1979): 301-315. [North American Philosophers, Causality]

Dorien, Gary.  The Making of American Liberal Theology; Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805-1900.  Louisville, KY: 2001.  

_____.  The Making of American Liberal Theology; Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900-1950.  Louisville, KY: 2003.  

Doud, Robert E.  “Hopkins and Whitehead.”  1996.  (Unpub.).

Dougherty, Jude P.  “Paul Weiss, 1901-2002.” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 77, no. 5 (May 2004): 174-175.

Dryden, Donald. "Susanne K. Langer." in American Philosophers Before 1950 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 270), eds. Leemon B. McHenry and Philip B. Demetteis. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale-Group-Thomson-Learnings, 2003, 189-199

Eames, S. Morris.  “Meaning, Value, and Creativity in Dewey and Wieman.”  (unpubl.) [North American Philosophers, Value Theory]

Field, Richard W.  “William James and the Epochal Theory of Time.”  Process Studies 13, no.4 (Winter, 1983): 260-74. [abstract] [North American Philosophers, Bergson, Time]

Fisch, Max H., et al. Eds.  Classic American Philosophers: Peirce, James, Royce, Santayana, Dewey, Whitehead.  Selections from their writings plus introductory essays: N.Y. Appleton-Century-Crofts, The Century philosophy series, 1951, x-493 pages.

_____. “Evolution in American Philosophy.” The Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (July 1947): 357-373. [abstract]

Fogg, Walter L.  “Experience and Order in Blanshard and Whitehead.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Boston University, 1963.

Ford, Marcus P.  William James’ Philosophy: A New Perspective.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. [North American Philosophers, Epistemology]

Forderhase, Earl D.  “A Study of the Concept of a Finite God in the Philosophies of William James and Alfred North Whitehead.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.  University of Oklahoma, 1973.

Frankenberry, Nancy.  “Consequences of William James’ Pragmatisms in Religion.”  In God, Values, and Empiricism, eds., W. C. Peden and L. E. Axel (Macon, GA:  Mercer University Press, 1989), 64-72. [North American Philosophers, Pragmatism]

Garcia Bacca, J. D.  Nueve Grandes Filosofos Contemporaneos y sus Temas, Vol. I: W. James, Ortega y Gasset, Whitehead.  Caracas, Publicationes del ministerio de educacion nacional de Venezuela, Imprenta Nacional, 1947, 360 pages.

Gelber, Sidney and Kathleen Wallace.  “Justice Buchler:  Nature, Power, and Prospect.”  Process Studies 15, no.2 (Summer, 1986): 106-19. [North American Philosophers, Nature, Power]

Green, Thomas H., SJ.  “The Idea of Novelty in Peirce and Whitehead.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.  University of Notre Dame, 1968. [North American Feminisms, Whitehead]

Griffin, David R.  “The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and of William James.” (unpubl.) [North American Philosophers, Biblical Studies, God Concepts]

_____.  “William James.” (unpubl.)

Hare, Peter H. and John Ryder.  “Buchler’s Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology.”  Process Studies 10, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1980): 120-29. [North American Philosophers, Metaphysics]

Hartshorne, Charles.  Creativity In American Philosophy.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1984.

_____.  “The Development of My Philosophy.”  In Contemporary American Philosophy, ed. John E. Smith (New York:  Humanities Press Inc., 1970), 211-28.

_____.  “Emerson’s Secularized Calvinism and Throeau’s Approach to Anarchism.”  In Creativity in Amreican Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984), 34-49.

_____.  “God and the Meaning of Life.”  In On Nature, ed. Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984), 154-68. [On Nozick] [North American Philosophers, God Concepts]

_____.  “James’s Empirical Pragmatism.” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 1:1 (Jan 1980): 29-36.

_____.  “Metaphysics in North America.”  In Contemporary Philosophy: A Survey, ed. Raymond Klibansky (Florence: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1969), 164-71. [North American Philosophers, Metaphysics]

_____.  “Philosophy After Fifty Years.”  In Mid-Twentieth Century American Philosophy: Personal Statements, ed. Peter A. Bertocci (New York: Humanities Press, 1974), 140-54.

_____.  “The Relativity of Nonrelativity:  Some Reflections on Firstness.”  In Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, eds., Philip P. Wiener and Frederic H. Young (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1952), 215-24.

_____.  “A Revision of Peirce’s Categories.”  In The Relevance of Charles Peirce, ed. Eugene Freeman (La Salle, IL:  Monist Library of Philosophy, 1983), 80-92.

_____.  “Santayana’s Defiant Eclecticism.”  In Animal Faith and Spiritual Life, ed. John Lachs (New York:  Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967), 33-43.

_____.  “Some Empty Though Important Truths:  A Preface to Metaphysics.”  In American Philosophers at Work, ed. Sidney Hook (New York:  Criterion Books, 1956), 225-35. [North American Philosophers, Metaphysics]

Helm, Bertrand.  “Emerson and the Sacredness of Becoming.” (unpubl.) [North American Philosophers, Becoming]

Howell, Nancy R.  “David R. Griffin.”  A New Handbook of Christian Theologians, eds. Donald W. Musser and Joseph L. Price (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996): 171-77.

Kasulis, Thomas P. and R. C. Neville.  The Recovery of Philosophy in America: Essays in Honor of John Edwin Smith.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Keating, Jerome F.  “Personal Identity in Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Alfred North Whitehead.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Syracuse University, 1972. [North American Philosophers, Self]

Korsmeyer, Jerry D. Review of The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis, Irony, and Postmodernity 1950-2005 by Gary Dorrien Process Studies 36, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2007): 133-37.

Kuklick, Bruce.  “Alfred North Whitehead.”  In The Rise Of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), 516-32.

Lango, John W. "Frederic B. Fitch (1908-1987)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 580-582. [abstract]

Laszlo, Erwin.  Introduction to Systems Philosophy: Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought.  New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

Limper, Peter F.  “Value and the Individual in the Philosophies of Whitehead and Peirce.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Yale University, 1975. [North American Philosophers, Metaphysics, Value Theory]

Lowe, Victor.  “The Influence of Bergson, James, and Alexander on Whitehead.”  Journal Of The History Of Ideas 10 (1949):  267-96. [North American Philosophers, Bergson]

_____.  “Peirce and Whitehead as Metaphysicians.”  In Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, eds., E. C. Moore and R. S. Robin (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1964), 430-54.

_____.  “William James and Whitehead’s Doctrine of Prehensions.”  Journal Of Philosophy 38 (1941): 113-26.

Lucas, George R., Jr.  “The Death of Philosophy and the Future of Metaphysics: The Case of Rorty and Whitehead.” (unpubl.) [North American Philosophers, Metaphysics]

_____. “The Status of Process Philosophy in the United States Today:  The Legacy of Alfred North Whitehead.”  Ruch Filozoficzny 47, no.1 (1990): 1-26.

Mack, Robert D.  The Appeal to Immediate Experience: Philosophic Method in Bradley, Whitehead and Dewey.  Books for Libraries Press, 1968. [also in New York: Morningside Heights, King’s Crown Press, 1945]

MacKinnon, Barbara, ed.  American Philosophy:  A Historical Anthology.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1985.  [“Process Philosophy,” pp. 389-427.]

McCallister, Edward A.  “Whitehead and James on Prehension:  An Examination of That Aspect of the Philosophy of James That Corresponds to the Physical Feeling of A. N. Whitehead.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Univesity of Georgia, 1990  [Whitehead on “physical feeling”] [North American Philosophers, Empiricism, Whitehead]

McDermott, John J.  Streams Of Experience:  Reflections on the History and Philosophy of American Culture.  Amherst:  University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.

McHeny, Leemon. "Victor Augustus Lowe (1907-1988)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 609-612. [abstract]

Meland, Bernard.  “Creativity in William James.” (unpubl.) [abstract available] [North American Philosophers, Creativity, Freedom, Pluralism]

Miller, David L.  “Consciousness, the Attitude of the Individual and Perspectives.”  In Creativity in George Herbert Mead, ed. Pete A. Y. Gunter (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990), 3-44. [North American Philosophers, Creativity]

Miller, Marjorie C.  Review:  Charles Hartshorne, Creativity in American Philosophy.  Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 21, no.3 (Summer, 1985): 435-42. [North American Philosophers, Creativity]

Miller, Randolph C.  The American Spirit in Theology.  Philadelphia:  United Church Press, 1974.

Muelder, Walter G., et al., eds.  The Development of American Philosophy. Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Co., 1960.  [Alfred North Whitehead, pp. 555-573]

Muray, Leslie.  “The Individual-in-Community in North American Radical Empiricism.” (unpubl.) [North American Philosophers, Empiricism]

_____.  “North American Process Philosophy and Environmental Ethics.” (unpubl.) [North American Philosophers, Ecology, Ethics]

Murphy, Arthur E.  “Objective Relativism in Dewey and Whitehead.”  Philosophical Review 36 (1927): 121-44.

Murphy, Frances.  “The Place of Moral Responsibility in the Philosophies of Whitehead and Peirce.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Brown University, 1940.

Myers, Gerald, ed.  The Spirit of American Philosophy.  New York:  Capricorn Books, 1970.  [Includes selections from Whitehead and Hartshorne]

Myers, William T. "John Dewey (1859-1952)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 388-399. [abstract]

_____. “Pragmatic Metaphysics: A Defense.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40, no. 1 (Winter, 2004). [North American Philosophers, Metaphysics, Pragmatism]

Neville, Robert.  “John E. Smith as Jeremiah.”  Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 22, no.3 (Summer, 1986): 258-271.

_____. Review of John J. McDermott’s The Culture of Experience: Philosophical Essays in the American Grain, by John J. McDermott. Process Studies 7, no. 2 (Summer 1977): 129-130. [abstract]

Nubiola, Jaime. "Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 481-487. [abstract]

Parker, Kelly A.  “Review of Varieties of Transcendental Experience, and The Gracing of Human Experience, by Donald L. Gelpi.”  Philosophy in Review 22, no.4 (2002): 274-277.

Pawelski, James O.  “William James and Epiphanal Experience.” In Religion in a Pluralistic Age: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Philosophical Theology, eds. Donald A. Crosby and Charley D. Hardwick (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2001): 277-288. [North American Philosophers, Ethics, Free Will]

Peden, W. Creighton and Jerome A. Stone.  The Chicago School of Theology – Pioneers in Religious Inquiry.  Vols. I -- II.  Studies in American Religion.  Vols. 66a -- 66b.  Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1996.

Platt, David.  “Transcendence of Subjectivity in Peirce and Whitehead.” Personalist 49 (1968): 238-55.

Putnam, Hilary.  “Peirce the Logician.”  In Realism with a Human Face, ed. James Conant (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1990), 252-60. [Influence on Whitehead and Russell]  [North American Philosophers, Logic, Realism]

Reck, Andrew.  “Charles Hartshorne:  Process Philosophy, Panpsychism, and Panentheism.”  In The New American Philosophers:  An Exploration of Thought Since World War II (Baton Rouge:  Lousiana State University Press, 1968), 291-314. [North American Philosophers, Panpsychism, Pantheism]

_____.  “Recent Interpretations of American Philosophy.” Review of Metaphysics. 18 (December 1964): 334-55. [abstract]

_____.  “Wilmon H. Sheldon’s Philosophy of Philosophy.”  Tulane Studies in Philosophy 7 (1958): 111-128.

Reese, William.  “Philosophic Realism: A Study of the Modality of Being in Peirce and Whitehead.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Harvard University, 1952.

_____.  “Philosophic Realism:  A Study in the Modality of Being in Peirce and Whitehead.”  In Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, eds., Philip P. Wiener and Frederic H. Young (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1952), 225-37.

Roberts, Jane.  The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978.

Roth, Robert J., S.J.  American Religious Philosophy.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1967.

Schneider, Herbert W. “A Century of Romantic Imagination in America.” The Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (July 1947): 351-356. [abstract] [North American Philosophers, Metaphysics, Psychology]

Seibt, Johanna. "Nicholas Rescher (1928-)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Studies Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag. 613-618. [abstract]

Shaw, Marvin C.  Nature's Grace: Essays on H. N. Wieman's Finite Theism. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. [abstract] [North American Philosophers, Naturalism]

_____.  “Wieman’s Misunderstanding of Dewey:  The Christian Century Discussion.”  Zygon 22, no.1 (March, 1987): 7-19. [North American Philosophers, Naturalism]

Sheldon, Wilmon Henry.  America’s Progressive Philosophy.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1942.  

Sherburne, Donald.  “The End (Demise) of Metaphysics?  What Whitehead Knew, and Rorty Overlooked.” (unpubl.) [North American Philosophers, Metaphysics]

_____.  “Whitehead and Dewey on Experience and System.”  Frontiers of American Philosophy, Vol. 1.  eds. Robert W. Burch and Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  (College Station:  Texas A&M University Press, 1992), 95-101.

Singer, Beth J.  “Substitutes for Substances.”  In Nature’s Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics, eds., Armen Marsoobian, et al. (Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1991), 73-91. [Buchler]

Smith, John E.  “Alfred North Whitehead:  Speculative Thinking, Science, and Education.”  In The Spirit of American Philosophy, Revised Edition. Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1983 [1963].

_____.  “Philosophy of Religion and Process Philosophy.”  In Themes in American Philosophy: Purpose, Experience, and Community (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), 223-42.

Sprigge, T. L. S. "George Santayana (1863-1952)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 517-523. [abstract] 

Straton, George Douglas.  Theistic Faith for Our Time:  An Introduction to the Process Philosophies of Royce and Whitehead.  Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1979.

Suchocki, Marjorie H.  "An American Myth, Or, Conventional Wisdom: Commentary, Caveat, and Construction."  American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 16, no.1 (January 1995): 33-41.

_____.  “John B. Cobb, Jr.” In A New Handbook of Christian Theologians, eds. Donald W. Musser and Joseph L. Price (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996): 106-17.

Szubka, Tadeusz.  "An Interview with Dorothy Emmet."  Cogito 8 (1994): 115-22.

Thompson, Manley.  “Hartshorne and Peirce, Individuals and Continuity.”  In Existence and Actuality, eds. John B. Cobb, Jr. and Franklin I. Gamwell (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1984), 130-43.

Todd, Quintin.  “James, Whitehead, and Radical Empiricism.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.   Pennsylvania State University, 1969.

Van Wesep, H. B.  Seven Sages: The Story of American Philosophy.  NY: Mckay, 1960. [abstract]

Vetter, Herbert F.  "A Great Philosopher Among Us."  The World (September-October 1993): 60.  (Hartshorne.)

_____.  "Not the Average Philosopher."  (On Charles Hartshorne's Hundredth Birthday.)  Harvard Magazine 99, no.5 (May-June 1997): 73-74.

Vitali, Theodore R., C.P.  “The Peirceian Influence on Hartshorne’s Subjectivism.”  Process Studies 7, no. 4 (Winter, 1977): 238-49.  [abstract]

Weber, Michel. “On Religiousness and Religion. Huxley’s Reading of Whitehead’s Religion in the Making in the Light of James’ Varieties.” (unpubl.)

_____. "The Hyperdialectics of Religiousness and Religion." Aletheia (January 2005): 119-140.

Weiss, Paul.  “Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947.”  Atlantic Monthly 181 (1948): 105-107.

_____.  “Nature, God, and Man.”  In Existence and Actuality:  Conversations with Charles Hartshorne, eds., John B. Cobb, Jr. and Franklin I. Gamwell (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1984), 113-21.

_____. [interviewed by] Lewis S. Ford.  “Recollections of Alfred North Whitehead.”  Process Studies 10, nos.1-2 (Spring-Summer, 1980):  44-56. [abstract available]

_____.  “Substance and Process, Today and Tomorrow.”  Philosophical Archives 2 [???]

_____.  Surrogates.  Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002.

Wells, Kelley J.  “An Evaluation of Hartshorne’s Critique of Peirce’s Synechism.”  Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society [A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy] 32, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 216-46.

Whittemore, R. C.  “Whitehead’s Process and Bradley’s Reality.”  Modern Schoolman 32 (1954-1955): 56-74.

Wickham, H.  The Unrealists; James, Bergson, Santayana, Einstein, Russell, Dewey, Alexander and Whitehead.  New York, MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1930.

Williams, Daniel Day.  “A Philosophical Outlook.”  In Contemporary American Philosophy, ed. John E. Smith (New York:  Humanities Press Inc., 1970), 229-47.

Wilshire, Bruce.  “Fifty Years of Academic Philosophy in the United States: Why the Failure of Nerve?”  Soundings 67, no.4 (Winter, 1984): 411-19.

Zeglen, Urszula M.,  “Filozofia z punktu widzenia Quine’a.” Ruch Filozoficzny 58, no. 2 (2001): 205-19. [North American Philosophers, Logic, Mathematics]