Process Thought and Causality

Ahmed, A. Karim. “Causality, Chaos, and Consciousness: Steps Toward a Normative Cosmological Principle in an Evolving Universe.”  Process Studies 27, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998): 255-66. [abstract]

Athearn, Daniel.  “Prospects for Physical Ontology: A Philosopher's Assessment.”  Physics Essays 10, no.4 (1997): 558-67. [abstract]

Bain, Jonathan. “Quantum Processes: A Whiteheadian Interpretation of Quantum Field Theory.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36 (2005): 680-690.

Bennett, James O. “A Process View of Causality.”  Tulane Studies in Philosophy 23 (1974): 1-12. [abstract]

Birch, Charles L. “Can Evolution Be Accounted for Solely in Terms of Mechanical Causation?”  (Unpubl.)

_____. “What Does God Do in the World?”  Union Seminary Quarterly Review 30, nos.2-4 (Winter-Summer, 1975): 76-84.

Bowman, Donna. “Barth and Whitehead On Divine Self-Determination.”  Encounter 60, no.4 (1999): 441-462.

Bracken, Joseph, S.J. "Of Particles and Fields." Theology and Science 5, no. 1 (2007): 47-56. [abstract] 

_____. “A New Look At Time and Eternity.”  Theology and Science 3, no.3 (November 2005): 77-88. [abstract]

Bracken, Joseph. “Emergent Monism and Final Causality: A Field-Oriented Approach.”  (Unpubl.)

Bracken, Joseph A. “Emergent Monism and Final Causality: A Field-Oriented Approach.”  Tradition and Discovery 31, no. 2 (2004-2005): 18-26.

Brennan, Sheilah O'Flynn. “Perception and Causality: Whitehead and Aristotle.”  Process Studies 3, no.4 (Winter 1973): 273-84.

_____. “Substance Within Substance.”  Process Studies, 7 No. 1. (Spring 1977): 14-26.          [Abstract]

Buchler, Justus. “On a Strain of Arbitrariness in Whitehead's System.”  The Journal of Philosophy 66 (Oct. 1969): 589-601. [abstract]

Capek, Milic.  “Discussion: Note about Whitehead's Definitions of Co-Presence.”  Philosohpy of Science 24 (Jan. 1957): 79-86. [abstract] 

Clark, Kevin. “An Examination of Causality in Nagarjuna, Abe, and Whitehead.”  (Unpubl.) [abstract]

Clayton, Philip. “Natural Law and Divine Action: The Search for an Expanded Theory of Causation.” Zygon 39, no. 3 (September 2004): 615-36.

Cobb, John B., Jr. “Natural Causality and Divine Action.”  Idealistic Studies 3 (1973): 207-222.

Collier, John.  "Self-organization, Individuation and Identity."  Revue internationale de philosophie 58 (April 2004): 151-172.

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

Emmet, Dorothy. “Continuity and Discontinuity in Causation.”  African Philosophical Inquiry 1, no.1 (January 1987): 9-17.

_____. “How Near Can a Cause Get to Its Effect?”  The Philosophical Quarterly 38, no.153 (October, 1988): 455-70. [abstract]

_____. “An Interview with Dorothy Emmet.”  Cogito 8 (1994): 115-122.

_____. “Whitehead's View of Causal Efficacy.”  (???)

Esleck, Leonard J. “Divine Causality.”  Modern Schoolman 62 (May, 1985): 233-247.

Flynn, Mark. “The Importance of Forgetting ‘Perishing’ in Whitehead’s Cosmology and Epistemology.” Interchange 36, no. 1-2 (2005): 243-5.

 Ford, Lewis S. “The Causation: Transition or Concrescence?”  (Unpubl.)

  _____. “On Genetic Successiveness: A Third Alternative.”  The Southern Journal of Philosophy 7 (Winter 1969-70): 421-425. [abstract]

_____.   “Prime Matter, Barrington Jones, and William Brenner.”  New Scholas  50 (Spring    1976): 229-231. [Abstract]

 _____. “Reasons, Causes, and Decisions.”  Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 3 (Fall 1972): 51-62. [abstract]

Frankenberry, Nancy. “Efficient Emergent Paradigm and Divine Causation.”  Process Studies 13, no.3 (Fall 1983): 202-17.

Garfield, Jay L. "Nagarjuna's Theory of Causality: Implications Sacred and Profane." Philosophy East and West 51, no. 4 (October 2001):507-524.

Garland, William J. “Whitehead's Theory of Causal Objectification.”  Process Studies 12, no.3 (Fall 1982): 180-91.

Grange, Joseph. "Dao, Technology, and American Naturalism." Philosophy East and West 51, no. 3 (July 2001): 363-377.

Griffin, David R. “Divine Causality, Evil, and Philosophical Theology: A Criticism of James Ross.”  International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4, no.3 (Fall, 1973): 168-186.

_____. “Evil and the Two Types of Efficient Causation.” (unpubl.) [abstract]

_____. “Relativism, Divine Causation, and Biblical Theology.”  Encounter 36, no.4 (Autumn, 1975): 342-60.

Gulick, Walter B. “On Structured Societies and Morphogenetic Fields: A Response to Joseph Bracken.”  Tradition & Discovery 31, no. 2 (2004/2005): 31-36.

Haag, James W. “Between Physicalism and Mentalism: Philip Clayton on Mind and Emergence.” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 41, no. 3 (Sept. 2006): 633-47. [abstract]

Haught, John F. and D.M. Yeager. “Polanyi’s Finalism.” Zygon 32, no. 4 (December 1997): 543-66).

Henry, Granville. “Mathematics and Causality.”  (Unpubl.)

Hewlett, Martinez. On Polanyi, Clayton, and Biology: Some Musings of a Recovering Reductionist._ Tradition and Discovery 29, no. 3 (2002-2003): 20-22. [abstract]

Hulswit, Menno. “Semeiotic and the Cement of the Universe: A Peircean Process Approach to Causation.”  Transactions of the Charles Peirce Society 37, no.3 (Summer 2001): 341-363.

Inada, Kenneth K. "Field-Being and the Philosophy of Open Ontology." The International Journal for Field-Being 1, no. 1 (2001).

Jeffreys, Derek S. “The Soul is Alive and Well: Non-reductive Physicalism and Emergent Mental

            Properties.”  Theology and Science  2, no. 2  (October 2004): 205-225.

Kraus, Elizabeth M. “Continuity in an Epochal Theory of Time.”  (unpubl.) [abstract]

_____. “Existence as Transaction: A Whiteheadian Study of Causality.”  Thought (???): 349-366.

Lee, Harold N.  “Causal Efficacy and Continuity in Whitehead's Philosophy.”  Tulane Studies in Philosophy 10 (1961): 59-70. [abstract] This article is not available at the Center for Process Studies

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

Moodey, Richard W. “Comments on Joseph A. Bracken’s “Emergent Monism and Final Causality: A Field-Oriented Approach.”“  Tradition & Discovery 31, no. 2 (2004-2005): 27-30.

Murphy, Nancey. Response to Derek Jeffreys._  Theology and Science  2, no. 2 (October 2004): 227-230.

Nobo, Jorge L. “Transition in Whitehead: A Creation Process Distinct from Concrescence.” International Philosophical Quarterly 19, no. 3 (September 1979): 265-283. [abstract]

Peterson, Gregory R. “Species of Emergence.” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 41, no. 3 (Sept. 2006):  689-712.  [abstract]

Pilon, Juliana Geran. “Cartesian Roots of the Ontological Principle.” Process Studies 6, no. 4 (Winter 1976): 249-254. [abstract]

_____. “Lockeian Roots of the Ontological Principle.” Process Studies 7, no. 3 (Fall 1977): 192-200. [abstract] 

Polkinghorne, John. "Space, Time, and Causality." Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 41, no. 4 (December 2006): 975-83. [abstract]

Pustilnik, Jack. “Process and Causality: Whitehead’s Reply to Hume.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Columbia Universirty, 1958.

Queiroz, Joćo and Charbel Nino El-Hani. “Semiosis as an Emergent Process.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 42, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 78-116. [abstract]

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

Ribas, Albert. "Leibniz' Discourse on the Natural Theology of the Chinese and the Leibniz-Clareke Controversy." Philosophy East and West 53, no. 1 (January 2003): 64-86. [abstract]

Rizvi, Sajjad H. “MullāŞadrā and Causation: Rethinking a Problem in Later Islamic Philosophy.” Philosophy East & West 55, No. 4 (October 2005): 570-583.

Sarfatti, Jack. “Progress in Post-Quantum Physics and Unified Field Theory.” in Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale  eds. Richard L. Amoroso, Georffrey Hunter, and Menos Kafatos (New York: Springer 2002): 419-30. [abstract]

Schroeder, John. "Nagarjuna and the Doctrine of 'Skillful Means'." Philosophy East and West 50, no. 4 (October 2000): 559-583.

Stapp, Henry Pierce. Quantum Mechanics, Local Causality, and Process Philosophy._ Process Studies. 7, no. 3 (Fall 1977): 173-82. [abstract]

Stearns, J. Brenton,  “Becoming: A Problem for Determinists?”  Process Studies 6, no.4 (Winter 1976): 237-248. [abstract]

Stein, Ross L. "An Inquiry into the Origins of Life on Earth: A Synthesis of Process Thought in Science and Theology." Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 41, no. 4 (December 2006): 995-1016. [abstract]

Tanzella-Nitti, G.  "L'ontologia di Tommaso d'Aquino e le scienze naturali."  ACTA Philosophica 13 (2004): 139-157.

Ulanowicz, Robert E. “Ecosystem Dynamics: a Natural Middle.”  Theology and Science  2, no. 2 (October 2004): 231-253.

van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel. “Emergence and Human Uniqueness: Limiting or Delimiting Evolutionary Explanation?” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 41, no. 3 (Sept. 2006): 649-64. [abstract]

Ziporyn, Brook. "Setup, Punch Line, and the Mind-Body Problem: A Neo-Tiantai Approach." Philosophy East and West 50, no. 4 (October 2000): 584-613.