Emergence and Process Thought

Ames, Roger T. "On the Contingency of Confucius' Emergent Tao." Philosophical Review 7 (January 1989): 117-140.

_____. When Science Meets Religion; Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?  New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2000.

Birch, Charles. Feelings. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995.  

_____, and John Cobb. The Liberation of Life; From the Cell to the Community. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Bracken, Joseph A. "Emergence." [Paper presented at "Emergence" Seminar at Claremont School of Theology, May 1, 2008] 

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

_____. “Response. (To Philip Clayton, “The Emergence of Spirit,”  CTNS Bulletin 20, no.4 (Fall 2000): 3-20).”  CTNS Bulletin 20, no.4 (Fall 2000): 28-30.

Braxton, Donald M. "Natural, Supernatural, and Trascendence: Naturalizing Transcendence in the New Cosmologies of Emergence."  Zygon 41, no. 2 (June 2006): 347-363. [abstract]

Budenholzer, Frank E. “Emergence, Probability, and Reductionism.”  Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 39, no. 2 (June 2004): 339-356.

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]

Carrier, Martin. “Emergence and the Final Theory, or: How to Make Scientific Progress Sustainable.” Revista de Filosofia 28, no. 1 (2003): 7-31. [abstract]

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

Clayton, Philip. “The Emergence of Spirit.” Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences Bulletin 20, no. 4 (Fall 2000): 3-20.

_____. “Emergence from Physics to Theology: Toward a Panoramic View.” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 41, no. 3 (Sept. 2006): 675-87. [abstract]

_____. “Emergence, Supervenience, and Personal Knowledge.”  Tradition and Discovery 29, no.3 (2002-2003): 8-19.

_____. “The Emergence of Spirit: From Complexity to Anthropology to Theology.” Theology and Science 4, No. 3 (November 2006): 291-307. [abstract] 

_____. “Emerging God: Theology for a Complex Universe.” Christian Century 121, no. 1 (January 13, 2004): 26-30.

_____. Mind & Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [abstract]

_____. “Natural Law and Divine Action: The Search for an Expanded Theory of Causation.”  Zygon 39, no. 1 (Sept. 2004) 615-636.

_____. “Neuroscience, the Person, and God: An Emergentist Account.”  Zygon 35, no.3 (Sept. 2000): 613- 652.

_____. “Theology for A Complex Universe: Emerging God.”  Christian Century (January 13, 2004): 26-30.

_____ and Paul Davies, eds. The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. [abstract]

Cobb, John B. Jr. "A Critique of Lynn Margulis Theory of Evolution." 1-10.(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.]

Code, Murray. “On Whitehead's Almost Comprehensive Naturalism.” Process Studies 31, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2002): 3-31. [Agency, Emergence]

Crain, Steven D. “God Embodied in, God Bodying Forth the World: Emergence and Christian Theology.” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 41, no. 3 (September 2006): 665-73. [abstract]

Crosby, Donald A. Novelty. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. [abstract]

Cuff, Joyce M.  "C. S. Peirce, G. W. F. Hegel, and Stuart Kauffman's Complexity Theory: A Response."  Zygon 42, no. 1 (March 2007): 249-255. [abstract]

Diaz, José-Luis. “Mind-body unity, dual aspect, and the emergence of consciousness.”  Philosophical Psychology 13, no.3 (2000): 393-403. [abstract]

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

Eastman, Timothy E. “The Emergence of High Level Biological Structures and Mind Through Dissipative Structures and Quantum Processes.” [???] PM 9:2

_____. "Our Cosmos, from Substance to Process." World Futures 64 (2008) 84-93. [abstract]

Ford, Lewis S. "Enduring Subjectivity." Process Studies 35, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2006): 291-318.

_____. “The Resurrection as the Emergence of the Body of Christ.”  Religion in Life 42, no.4 (Winter 1973): 466-477.

Freeman, Anthony.  "God as an Emergent Property."  Journal of Consciousness Studies 8,    no. 9-10 (2001): 147-59. [abstract] 

Gentry, George. “Prehension as an Explanatory Principle.”  Journal of Philosophy 35 (1938): 517-522.

Goff, Philip. "Experiences Don't Sum." Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 53-61. 

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 Thoguth." Oct. 21-24, 2004] [abstract]

Graves, Mark.  "Peircean Approaches to Emergent Systems in Cognitive Science and
Religion."  Zygon 42, no. 1 (March 2007): 241-248. [abstract]

_____. "Emergence of Transcendental Norms in Human Systems." Zygon 44, no. 3 (September 2009): 501-531. [abstract] [Aesthetics, Science and Religion, Emergence, Systems]

Gregersen, Niels Henrik. "Emergence in Theological Perspective: A Corollary to Professor Clayton's Boyle Lecture." Theology and Science 4, no. 3 (November 2006): 309-20.

Greene, John.  “Balfour v. Huxley on Evolutionary Naturalism: A 21^st Century Perspective.”  Science and Christian Belief 15.1. April, 2003, 41-63. [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)] 1-28. [abstract]

Griffin, David Ray. Religion and Scientific Naturalism; Overcoming the Conflicts. SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought, ed. David Ray Griffin. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2000.  

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]

_____. Review of Novelty by Donald A. Crosy. American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 30 no. 3. (Sept. 2009): 339-342.

Hasker, William. “Emergentism.” Religious Studies 18, no. 4 (1982): 473-88.

Haught, John F. “Does the Universe Have a Purpose.”  Science and Religion, 162-182.

_____. “The Emergent Environment and the Problem of Cosmic Purposes.” Environmental Ethics 8, no. 2 (Summer 1982).

_____. Nature and Purpose. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1980. [abstract]

_____. “Purpose and Nature's Hierarchy.”  In The Cosmic Adventure, 88-97.

_____. “Christianity in an Emergent Universe.” In The Cosmic Adventure, 163-66.

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

Jackelen, Antje. “Emergence Theory—What Is Its Promise? Emergence Everwhere?! Reflections on Philip Clyton's Mind and Emergence.” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 41, no. 3 (Sept. 2006): 623-32. [abstract]

Jackson, Frank. “Galen Strawson on Panpsychism.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 62-64. [abstract]

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.

Klibengajtis, Thomas. Emergentist Theism as a Panentheistic Thread within Traditional Theism. [e-book]

Laszlo, Ervin. “Quantum and Consciousness: In Search of a New Paradigm.” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 41, no. 3 (Sept. 2006): 533-41. [abstract]

Long, J. Bruce. “God and Creativity In the Cosmologies of Whitehead and Bhaskara.” Philosophy East and West 29, no. 4 (October 1979): 395-420.

Miller, David L. George Herbert Mead: Self, Language, and the World. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973. [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.

Morowitz, Harold. “Response. (To Philip Clayton,  “The Emergence of Spirit,”  CTNS Bulletin 20, no.4 (Fall 2000): 3-20).”  CTNS Bulletin 20, no.4 (Fall 2000): 24-25.

Mullins, Phil. “Polanyian Footnotes to “From Biology to Consciousness to Morality."" Tradition and Discovery 30, no. 3 (2003-2004): 22-30.

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

Naser, Curtis R. "Unity, Holism and Emergent Theology: A Reflection on Mendel Sachs 'The Principle of Relativity'." The International Journal for Field-Being 1, no. 1 (2001).

Neeper, Carolyn Almond. “Built-in Meaning Inspired by Complexity Principles.” (unpubl.)

Peterson, Gregory R. “Emergence and Supervenience: A Reply to Philip Clayton.”  Tradition and Discovery 29, no.3 (2002-2003): 23-27.

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

Plamondon, Ann. “Emergence in Evolution (Response to Birch and Dobzhansky)” In Mind in Nature, ed. John B. Cobb and David Griffin (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1977), 25-26.

_____. "A Note on Emergence." Mind:  A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy LXXXIII, no. 330 (April 1974): 276-277.

_____. “Whitehead and the Philosophy of Science.” In Mind in Nature, eds. John Cobb and David Griffin (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1977), 109-121.

Queiroz, João 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] 

Richard, Stewart. “Reductionism and Emergence.” In Philosophy and Sociology of Science: An Introduction (New Tork, NY: Schocren Books, 1984), 80-84.

Rosenthal, David M. "Experience and the Physical." Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 117-28.

Sawyer, R. Keith. "The Mechanisms of Emergence." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34, no. 2 (June 2004): 260-282. [abstract]

Schafer, Lothar.  "Quantum Reality and the Consciousness of the Universe: Quantum Reality, the Emergence of Complex Order from Virtual States, and the Importance of Consciousness in the Universe.”  Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 41, no. 3 (Sept. 2006):  505-32. [Abstract]

            . "A Response to Ervin Laszlo: Quantum and Consciousness.”  Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 41, no. 3 (Sept. 2006):  573-82. [abstract]

Schloss, Jeffrey. “Response. (To Philip Clayton,  “The Emergence of Spirit,”  CTNS Bulletin 20, no.4 (Fall 2000): 3-20).”  CTNS Bulletin 20, no.4 (Fall 2000): 21-23.

Seager, Willam. "The 'Instrinsic Nature' Argument for Pansychism." Journal of Consciousness Studies  13 no. 10-11 (2006): 129-145.

Shansky, Albert. “Complexity, Reductionism and the Natural World.” The International Journal for Field-Being 2, no.1 (2002).

Shukla, J. P. "The Concept of Mind in Evolutionism." The University Journal of Philosophy (India) 2: 26-44.

Silberstein, Michael.  “Converging on Emergence: Consciousness, Causation and Explanation.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 8, no. 9-10 (2001): 61-98. [abstract] 

 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]