Process Thought and the Biological Sciences

Agar, W. E.  A Contribution to the Theory of the Living Organism.  Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1951.

_____. "Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism: An Introduction for Biologists."  Quarterly Review of Biology 28, no.24  (1936): 16-34.

_____. “The Wholeness of Living Organisms”  (Unpubl.) [abstract]

Anonymous.  "A Slow Recovery."  Manas 15, no.8 (February 25, 1987):  1-2, 7.

Armstrong-Buck, Susan.  "Nonhuman Experience: A Whiteheadian Analysis." Process Studies 18, no.1 (Spring, 1989): 1-18.

Ayala, Francisco Jose and Theodosious Dobzhansky. Studies in the Philosophy of Biology: Reduction and Related Problems. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974. [abstract]

Bahm, Archie J.  “Organicism’s Nine Types of Philosophy.” (unpubl.) [Alternative Theology, Biological Sciences]

Barbour, Ian.  “Complexity and Self-Organization.” In When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? (San Francisco: Harper, 2000), 104-05.

_____.  "Five Ways of Reading Teilhard." Soundings 51 (1968): 115-45.  Reprinted in The Teilhard Review 3 (1968): 3-20.

_____.  "Teilhard’s Process Metaphysics."  In Process Theology: Basic Writings, ed. Ewart H. Cousins (New York: Newman Press, 1971), 323-50.

Birch, L. Charles.  "Adam Was a Crowd."  Compass 3, no.2 (May-June, 1969): 57-59.

_____.  "A Biological Basis for Human Purpose." Zygon 8, nos.3-4 (August-December, 1973): 244-60.

_____.  "The Biological Future of Man." St. Mark’s Review [Sydney] (February, 1968): 16-20.

_____. Biology and the Riddle of Life. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999. [abstract]

_____.  “Can Evolution Be Accounted for Solely in Terms of Mechanical Causation?” [Biological Sciences, Evolution, Causality]

_____. "Chance, Necessity and Purpose."  In Studies in the Philosophy of Biology, eds. F. Ayala and T. Dobshansky (New York: Macmillan Company, 1974), 225-39. [abstract]

_____. Feelings. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995. [abstract]

_____.  "My Damascus."  In Spiritual Evolution: Scientists Discuss Their Beliefs, eds. John Marks Templeton and Kenneth Seeman Giniger (Philadelphia and London: Giniger Books, 1998), 1-15.

_____. Nature and God. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1965. [abstract]

_____.  "The Postmodern Challenge to Biology."  In The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals, ed. David R. Griffin (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988), 69-78.

_____.  "Processing Towards Life."  Process Studies 27, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998): 280-91.

_____.  "Processing Toward Life." (unpubl.).

_____. Science and Soul. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2008. [abstract]

_____.  “What Process Thought Means to Me.” (unpubl).

_____ and John B. Cobb, Jr.  The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. [abstract]

Bonifazi, Conrad. "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Scientist"  (unpublished)

Bono, James J.  “Perception, Living Matter, Cognitive Systems, Immune Networks: A Whiteheadian Future for Science Studies.”  (unpublished)

Boyden, Stephen V. "Culture, Nature and the Future." In God, Cosmos, Nature and Creativity, ed. by Jill Gready (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1995): 51-77.

Brain Mind Bulletin. Special Issue: "A New Science of Life."

Bugbee, John.  "The Consequences of Metaphysics: or, Can Charles Peirce's Continuity Theory Model Stuart Kauffman's Biology?" Zygon 42 no. 1 (March 2007): 203-221. [abstract]

Clayton, Philip. “Biology Meets Theology.” Review of: Holmes Rolston III, Genes, Genesis and God: Values and Their Origins in Natural and Human History (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999); Michael Ruse, Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1998); ed. Robert J. Russell, William Stoeger and Francisco Ayala, Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action Series (Vol. 3) (Berkeley, CA: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1998).  The Christian Century, 117, 2 (Jan. 19, 2000): 61-64.

_____. "The Ontology of 'Intelligent Species.' " Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 1 (1990): 75-76.

            .  “Biology, Directionality, and God: Getting Clear on the Stakes for Religion-Science Discussion.” Theology and Science, 4, no. 2 (2006) 121-27  

Cobb, John B., Jr. and David R. Griffin, eds.  Mind in Nature.  Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1977.

Conway, Patrick. "The Mind/Body Function: Not One, Not Two, But a Process." Journal of Thought 19, (Winter 1984): 90-104.

Crittenden, Stephen.  "Religion Report: Charles Birch - Science and Soul." ABC Radio National (December 19, 2007): http:www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2007/2122324.htm [abstract] 

Daly, Herman E.  “The Lurking Inconsistency.”  Conservation Biology 13, no4 (August 1999): 693-694.

Dart, John.  "Southern California File." Los Angeles Times  (Saturday, May 12, 1990): F19. [On Charles Birch]

Debaise, Didier. "The Living and Its Environments: Stengers Reading Whitehead." Process Studies 37, no. 2 (Fall-Winter, 2008): 127-39. [abstract] 

Delafield-Butt, Jonathan. "Biology." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 157-168. [abstract]

Derfer, George E.  “Fractured Faith and Its Reconstruction: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on ’Faith’ in E. O. Wilson’s Life and Thought.”  (unpubl.)

Dobzhansky, Theodosius.  The Biology of Ultimate Concern. New York: New American, 1967.

_____.  "Teilhard and Monod: Two Conflicting World Views." The Teilhard Review 2 (1973): 36-40.

Donnelley, Strachan, Charles R. McCarthy and Rivers Singleton, Jr.  "The Brave New World of Animal Biotechnology."  Special Supplement.  The Hastings Center Report (January-February, 1994).

Earley, Joseph E.  "Naturalism, Theism, and the Origin of Life."  Process Studies 27, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998): 267-79.

Falkner, Gernot and Renate Falkner, "The Memory of Micro-Organisms: An Essay on the Experience of Environmental Alterations by Bacteria." World Futures 64 (2008): 133-145. [abstract]

Ferré, Frederick. "On Making Persons: Philosophy of Nautre and Ethics." In The Legacy of Hans Jonas: Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008, 493-501.

Gangle, Rocco. "Collective Self-Organization in General Biology: Gilles Deleuze, Charles, Peirce, and Stuart Kauffman." Zygon 42, no. 1 (March 2007): 223-239. [abstract]

Gelwick, Richard. "Michael Polyani's Search for Truth: Michael Polyani's Daring Epistemology and the Hunger for Ideology." Zygon 40, no.1 (March 2005): 63-76. [abstract]

Goodenough, Ursula and Terrence W. Deacon.  “From Biology to Consciousness to Morality.”  Tradition and Discovery 30, no. 3 (2003-2004):  6-21. [A paper presented at the conference of "Religous Interpratation of Evolutionary Biology: Neo-Darwinism in Dialogue with Lynn Margulis and Process Thought." Oct. 21-24, 2004] [abstract]

_____. "The Emergence of Sex." Zygon 42, no. 4 (Decemebr 2007): 857-872.

Greene, John C.  Debating Darwin: Adventures of a Scholar. Claremont: Regina Books, 1999.  

Grene, M.  "Bohm’s Metaphysics and Biology."  (unpublished)

Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. [abstract]

Hartshorne, Charles.  Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.   Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.

_____. "Darwin and Some Philosophers."  Process Studies 30, no.2 (Fall-Winter): 276-288."

_____.  "Metaphysics Contributes to Ornithology." Theoria to Theory 13, no.2 (1979): 129-40.

_____.  "The Organism According to Process Philosophy." In Organism, Medicine, and Metaphysics: Essays in Honor of Hans Jones on his Birthday, ed. Stuart Spicker (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1978), 137-54.

Hermann, Heinz.  "Morphological and Functional Aspects of Living Matter and Whitehead’s Category of Actual Entity." Philosophy of Science 14 (1947): 254-260.

Hewlett, Martinez.  “On Polanyi, Clayton, and Biology: Some Musings of a Recovering Reductionist.” Tradition and Discovery. 29, no. 3 (2002-2003): 20-2. [abstract]

Hilberry, Conrad.  "Life in a Flux of Form."  PM 10:4 (unpubl.)

Jacob, Wolfgang.  “Process Thought:  What Does That Mean to You?  ‘Process Thought’ in Modern Medicine?”  (unpubl.)

Jonas, Hans.  "Is God a Mathematician? The Meaning of Metabolism."  In The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982 [1966]), ??

_____.  The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology.  New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

Kaufman, Alvin H.  "Elan Vital, Nisus and Creativity as Treated in the Thought of Henri Bergson, S. Alexander, and Alfred North Whitehead."  Ph.D. Dis., Boston University, 1952.

Koutroufinis, Spyridon. "Reintroducing Teleology in Scientific Explanation: A Whiteheadian Account of the Ontogeny of Organisms." [A paper presented in the seminar of The Center for Process Studies, Claremont, CA (June 17th, 2008)]: 1-17.

Laszlo, Ervin. Evolution: The Grand Synthesis. Boston: Shambhala, 1987. [abstract]

Lesser, David.  "Against the Flow."  Good Weekend 15 July 1995 (Newspaper article on Charles Birch.)

Lillie, Ralph S.  "Biological Directiveness and the Psychical." Philosophy of Science 14 (1947): 226-68.

_____.   General Biology and Philosophy of Organism.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945.

Lucas, George R., Jr.  “Evolutionary Cosmology.”  In The Genesis of Modern Process Thought:  A Historical Outline with Bibliography.  Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press and Amer. Theological Library Assoc., 1983. 54-98.

Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species. New York: Basic Books, 2002. 

_____. Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality. New York: Summit Books, 1991.

Martin, F. David. Review: C. H. Waddington, Behind Appearance. Process Studies 4, no.1 (Spring, 1974): 51-55. [Aesthetics, Biology]

Miller, James Grier. Living Systems. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1995. [abstract]

Mishra, R. K., ed.  The Living State.  New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. [abstract]

Montebello, Pierre. "Univers, Cerveau, Images. La question psychophysiologique chez Bergson." Chromatikon II (2006): 205-218.

Needham, J.  "A Biologist’s View of A. N. Whitehead’s Philosophy."  In The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, ed. Paul A. Schilpp (New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1951), 241-71.

Oord, Thomas Jay, ed. The Altruism Reader: Selections from Writings on Love, Religion, and Science. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2008. [abstract]

Plamondon, Ann. “The Contemporary Reconciliation of Mechanism and Organicism.” (unpub). [abstract]  

_____. “Whitehead and the Philosophy of Science.” In Mind and Nature, eds. John Cobb and David Griffin. Washington, D.C.: UP of America, 1977: 109-121. [abstract]

Pols, Edward. “Human Agents as Fundamental Entities.” (Unpubl.) [abstract]

Pribram, Karl. “Toward a Holonomic Theory of Perception.” In Gestalttheorie In Der Modernen Psychologie: Wolfgang Metzger zum 75. Geburtstag, eds. Wolfgang Metzger, et al. Darmstadt: Steinkopff, 1975: 161-184. [abstract]

Quiring, John.  “Process and Primates Make Strange Bedfellows: Whitehead, Washoe, and primate culture.”  Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology 1:7 (March 2001): 7.

Reason, Peter and Brian Goodwin.  "Toward a Science of Qualities in Organizations: Lessons from Complexity Theory and Postmodern Biology." (unpub): 1999. [abstract] 

Rensch, Bernhard. “Arguments for Panpsychistic Identism.” In Mind in Nature: Essays on the Interface of Science and Philosophy, eds. John B. Cobb and David Griffin. Washington, D.C.: UP of America, 1977: 70-78. [abstract]

Ruse, Michael. Darwin and Design. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003. [abstract]

Russell, Robert J., William R. Stoeger, S. J., and Francisco J. Ayala, eds. Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action. Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory, 1998. [abstract]

Sagan, Dorion, "Purpose, Process, Symbiosis, and Intelligence: Complex Evolutions' Natural Roots in Energy Flow." (unpub.) [Paper presented at the conference of "Religious Interpretation of Evolutionary Biology: Neo-Darwinism in Dialogue with Lynn Margulis and Process Thought." (Oct. 21-24, 2004)]

Sattler, Rolf.  "A Dynamic Multidimensional Approach to Floral Morphology."  (Unpublished.)

_____.  "The Usefulness of Process Thinking in Biology."  [February, 1994 videotape]

_____.  "Why Do We Need a More Dynamic Study of Morphogenesis?" (unpubl.)

Sattler, Rolf and Rolf Rutishauser.  "Structural and Dynamic Descriptions of the Development of Utricularia.” (unpublished.)

Scarfe, Adam. Review of Back to Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution Ed. by John B. Cobb, Jr. In Process Studies 37, no. 2 (Fall-Winter, 2008): 195-200.

Seibt, Johanna, ed. Process Theories: Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. [abstract]

Sheldrake, Rupert.  "Formative Causation: The Hypothesis Supported." New Scientist  (October 27, 1983): 279-80.

_____.  "The Laws of Nature as Habits: A Postmodern Basis for Science."  In The Reenchantment of Science:  Postmodern Proposals, ed. David Ray Griffin.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

_____.  A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation.  Los Angeles: S.P. Tarcher, 1981. [abstract]

 _____, and David Bohm.  "Sheldrake & Bohm: Morphogenetic Fields and the Implicate Order." ReVision 5, no.2

Smith, B.L.  “Biology and the Christian Faith.” (unpubl.) [abstract]

Stein, Ross L. "Enzymes as Ecosystems: A Panexperientialist Account of Biocatalytic Chemical Transformation." Process Studies 34, no. 1 (Spring-Summer, 2005): 62-80

Strader, R. E.  "Whitehead’s View of Atomicity and Continuity and its Application to Biology."  (unpubl.) [abstract]

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. The Phenomenon of Man.  New York: Harper, 1959.

Thorpe, W. H.  Purpose in a World of Chance:  A Biologist’s View.

Todd, Douglas.  “A New Scientific Paradigm Looms: Feelings are Everywhere.” The Vancouver Sun C5 (Sat. Oct. 21, 2006).

Van Till, Howard J. "Does Neo-Darwinism Have a Problem that Process Theology Can Fix?"(unpub.) [A paper presented at the conference of "Religious Interpretation of Evolutionary Biology: Neo-Darwinism in Dialogue with Lynn Margulis and Process Thought." (Oct. 21-24, 2004)] 

Waddington, C. H. The Evolution of an Evolutionist. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1975.

_____. The Nature of Life. London: George, Allen, & Unwin, 1961. [abstract]

_____.  "The Practical Consequences of Metaphysical Beliefs on a Biologist’s Work: An Autobiographical Note."  In: Towards a Theoretical Biology, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Aldine, 1968-1970): ???

_____.  "The Process Theory of Evolution and Notes on the Evolution of Mind."  In Mind in Nature, eds. John B. Cobb, Jr. and David Ray Griffin (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1977), 27-31. [abstract]

_____. ed. Towards a Theoretical Biology - 1: Prolegomena. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1968. [abstract]

_____. ed. Towards a Theoretical Biology - 2: Sketches. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1969. [abstract]

_____. ed. Towards a Theoretical Biology - 3: Drafts. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1970. [abstract]

Whitehead, A. N.  Nature and Life.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934.

The Worldviews Group. Perspectives on the World: An Interdisciplinary Reflection. Brussels: VUB Press, 1994. [abstract] 

Yuzon, Lourdino A., ed.  Towards an Asian Sense of Science and Technology. Singapore: Christian Conference of Asia, 1984.

Windeln, Rudolf. "L.J. Henderson (1878-1942)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 409-415. [abstract]

Wright, Sewall.  "Gene and Organism." The American Naturalist 87 (1953): 5-18.

_____. "Biology and the Philosophy of Science" conference paper, 10 February 1979.

Zimmerman, Michael E.  Book Review:  The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community. (Unpubl)