Freedom and Liberty in Process Thought

Adler, Mortimer, J.. The Idea of Freedom: A Dialectical Examination of the Conception of Freedom. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1958. 

Cauthen, Kenneth. The Passion for Equality. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. [abstract]

Cobb, John B., Jr.  “Freedom and Bondage to God.” (a paper for a conference on "The Quality of the Resurrection Faith," in March 2002, in Vienna, Austria).

_____. “Freedom in Whitehead’s Philosophy: A Response to Edward Pols.”  Southern Journal of Philosophy 7 (Winter 1969-70), 409-­13; also, slightly abridged in Explorations in whitehead’s Philosophy, eds.  Lewis S. Ford and George L. Kline (New York: Fordham University Press, 1983), 45-52. [abstract]

_____. "Liberalism: A Faith of Freedom." Good News (March-April 1991): 12-13. [Biblical Studies, Freedom]

Cone, James H. “Book Review: Schubert Ogden, Faith and Freedom: Toward a Theology of Liberation.” Review of Faith and Freedom: Toward a Theology of Liberation, by Schubert Ogden. Union Seminary Quarterly Review 35 (1979-1980): 296-300. [African, Faith, Freedom]

Epperly, Bruce. "Infinite Freedom, Creativity, and Love: The Adventures of a Non-Competitive God." Encounter 71 no. 2 (2010): 45-53.[abstract]

Gamwell, Franklin. The Meaning of Religious Freedom:  Modern Politics and the Democratic Resolution. (Albany:  SUNY, 1995). 

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]

Gilkey, Langdon.  "God: Eternal Source of Newness." In Living with Change, Experience, Faith, ed. Francis A. Eigo, O.S.A. (Villanova, PA: Villanova University Press, 1976) 151-68. [abstract]

Griffin, David Ray.  “Bohm and Whitehead on Freedom, Causality, and Time.”  In Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time, ed,. David Ray Griffin (Albany, NY:  SUNY, 1986), pp. 127-153.

_____.  “Panexperientialism, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Relation.”  In Reenchantment without Supernaturalism (Ithica:  NY:  Cornell UP, 2001), pp. 94-128.

_____.  Unsnarling the World-Knot:  Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem (Berkeley:  University of California, 1998)

Hartshorne, Charles.   “Equality, Freedom, and the Insufficiency of Empiricism.”  S. Jr. of Phil 1:3 (Fall 1970):  20-27.

_____.  “Freedom as Universal.” Process Studies 25 (1996): 1-9.

_____.  “Freedom, Individuality, and Beauty in Nature.”  Snowy Egret 24:2  (Autumn, 1960):  5-14.

_____.  “Freedom Requires Indeterminism and Universal Causality.” Journal of Philosophy 55, no. 19 (September 11, 1958): 793-811.

_____. “Freedom vs. Determinism.” (unpubl.).

_____.  “God, Nature and Freedom.” (unpubl.).

_____.  "A Metaphysics of Individualism."  In Innocence and Power: Individualism in Twentieth-Century America.  Austin:  University of Texas Press, 1965, pp. 131-146.

_____.  “Mind, Matter, and Freedom.” Scientific Monthly 78, no. 5 (May 1954):  314-320.

Howell, Nancy R. "Freedom and Liberation in Cobb's Legacy and Lure." [Conference paper presented at The Legacy and Lure of John B. Cobb, Jr. Conference], Claremont School of Theology, February 14-17, 2008. [This archive can be found in the Special Collections Unit at the Claremont School of Theology Library for reference only. Not available for copying.]

Hulbert, Steve. "Philip Rose, On Whitehead." Review of On Whitehead. Chromatikon II (2006), 251-254. [Aesthetics, Value, Freedom, Whitehead]

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

Jackson, Gordon. “Time, Neurosis, and Freedom.” (conference paper, August 1984).

Kelly, Thomas, "Real Presences: The Dialogic Nature of Process." (a paper for the Eastern American Philosophical Association in Baltimore, MD, in Dec. 29, 2007).

Livingston, Richard T. "Shaoki Raya: Power, Ideology, and Freedom in Whitehead." Process Perspectives: Newsmagazine of the Center for Process Studies 29, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 16.

Lucas,George.  Two Views of Freedom. Missoula, MT: Scholar's Press, 1979. 

Lutzow, Thomas H.  “The Structure of Free Act in Bergson.”  Process Studies 7, no.2 (Summer, 1977): 73-89. [abstract] [Bergson, Freedom, Free Will]

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

Mesle, Robert.  “Creativity, Freedom, Ambiguity, and God.” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 21, no. 2 (May 2000): 99-117.

Min, Anselm K.   "How Not to Do a Theology of Liberation:  A Critique of Schubert Ogden."  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 57, no.1 (Spring):  83-102.

Morris, Randall C.   “Freedom and Causality in Hartshorne’s Process Philosophy.”  In Process Philosophy and Political Ideology.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1991, pp. 47-64.

_____.  “Freedom and Causality in Whitehead’s Philosophy.”  In Process Philosophy and Political Ideology.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1991, pp. 23-46.

_____.  “Freedom, Equality, and the Ideal of Democracy.”  In Process Philosophy and Political Ideology.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1991, pp. 103-132.

_____.  Process Philosophy and Political Ideology.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1991. [abstract]

Moskop, John C. Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom: Thomas Aquinas and Charles Hartshorne. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1984. [Aquinas, Freedom]

Muray, Leslie A.  "Freedom in a Post-Capitalist, Post-Marxist World:  Nicholas Berdyaev Revisted."  (uhnpubl.)

_____. "Libertarian Socialism, Anarchism, and Process Thought." A paper for the Sixth International Whitehead Conference held in Salzburg, Austria, July 2-6, 2006. [abstract] 

Neve, Herbert. “Religion and Experimentation With African Socialism in Tanzania.” 1975 (unpubl.) [abstract] [African, Freedom]

Neville, Robert C.  The Cosmology of Freedom.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1974. [abstract]

Ogden, Schubert. Faith and Freedom:  Toward a Theology of Liberation. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1989 [1979]. [abstract]

Oord, Thomas.  “A Process Wesleyan Theodicy:  Freedom, Embodiment…” in Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love: Wesleyan and Process Theologies in Dialogue, ed. Bryan P. Stone and Thomas. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2001, 193-216.

Park, Dong-Sik. “Toward a Theology of Tears: God as the Poet of the World.” (unpubl.) [Aesthetics, Evil, Freedom, God Concepts, Pluralism]

Peden, Creighton and Larry E. Axel, eds. Creative Freedom, Henry Nelson Wieman. New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1982. [abstract]

Plion, Juliana.  “Whitehead and Solzhenitsyn on Freedom and Harmony.” The Intercollegiate Review, N.C. (Winter 1976-1977): 99-103.

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

Riggan, George. “Quantum Physics and Freedom in a Whiteheadian Perspective.” Zygon 17, no. 2 (September 1982): 255-265.

Rose, Philip.  "Relational Creativity and the Symmetry of Freedom and Nature."  Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 1, no. 1 (2005): 3-16. [abstract]

Stevens, Edward.  “Freedom, Determinism and Responsibility…Whiteheadian.” Ph. D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1965.

Stokes, Walter E., S.J.  “Freedom as Perfection:  Whitehead, Thomas, and Augustine." Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Society (1962): 134-142. [Aquinas, Freedom]

Virtue, Charles. “A Whiteheadian Ethic: The Ethic of Responsible Freedom.” (unpubl.) [abstract] [Aesthetics, Ethics, Freedom, Metaphysics, Ontology, Whitehead]

Whitehead, A. N.  “Aspects of Freedom.”  In Adventures of Ideas (New York:  Free Press, 1961 [1933]), pp. 43-68.

_____.  “Liberty and the Enfranchisement of Women.” (Cambridge:  Cambridge Women’s Suffrage Association, 1906)

_____.  “The Rhythmic Claims of Freedom and Discipline.”  Aims of Education (New York:  Free Press, 1967 [1929]), pp. 29-41.

Williams, Daniel Day.  “The Form of Christian Freedom.” Advance (January 25, 1956): 11-12.

_____“What Religious Freedom Means.”  The Churchman (September 1, 1943): 11.

Wolf, William J. Freedom's Holy Light: American Identity and the Future of Theology. Wakefield, MA: Parameter Press, 1977. [abstract]

The Women’s Movement for Justice and Peace. “The Cry of Zairian Women: We Want Peace!”  November 7, 1996.

Yong, Amos. Divine Omniscience and Future Contingents: Weighing the Presuppositional Issues in the Contemporary Debate in Evagelical Review of Theology, vol 26, issue 3, 2002.

_____. Possibility and Actuality: The Doctrine of Creation and Its Implications for Divine Omniscience in The Wesleyan Philosophical Society Online Journal. Vol 1, issue 1, 2001.

Young, Henry James.  "Black Theology: Providence and Evil" in Duke Divinity School Review, vol 40, issue 2, 1975.

_____. "The Reality of God and Human Oppression" (unpublished)

_____. "Black Theology and the Work of William R Jones" in Religion in Life, vol XLIV, 1975: 12-23. [Black Theology, Freedom]

_____. “Black Theology: Providence and Evil.” Duke Divinity School Review 40, no.2 (1975): 87-96. [Black Theology, Evil, Freedom, Power]