Process Philosophy and Language

Abrams, J.J. “Philosophy After the Mirror of Nature: Rorty, Dewey and Peirce on Pragmatism and Metaphor.”  Metaphor and Symbol 17, no.3 (2002): 227-242.

Aldrich, Virgil C. “Chess Not Without the Queen.” APA Proceedings: 23-43.

Allan, George. Review of George Herbert Mead: Self, Language, and the World, by David L. Miller. In Process Studies 4, no.1 (Spring 1974): 42-51.

Allshouse, Merle F. "Review of Language, Hermeneutics, and Word of God", 1967 (Unpubl.). [abstract] [Biblical Studies,  Heidegger, Hermeneutics,  Language]

Altizer, Thomas J.J. “The Religious Meaning of Myth and Symbol.” (unpubl.) [abstract] [Analytic Theology, Language, Myth, Mysticism]

Angadiyil, Joseph Mathew. “Semantics and Theology: A Status Questionis.”  Jeevadhara 11, no.61 (Jan. – Feb. 1981): 41-66.

_____. "Hartshorne on the Existence of God: A Transcendental Interpretation." In Framing a Vision of the World: Essays in Philosophy, Science and Religion eds. Cloots, André and Sia, Santiago (Lueven: Leuven University Press, 1999): 159-79.

Armstrong-Buck, Susan B. “Reason, Language and Self-Consciousness”, June 1984 [Conference Paper “Hegel and Whitehead Symposium” June 1984].

Auxier, Randall E. “Susanne Langer on Symbols and Analogy: A Case of Misplaced Concreteness?”  Process Studies 26, nos.1-2 (Spring-Summer 1997): 86-106. [abstract]

Barr, William R. “A Grammar of Christian Faith: A Review Article.” Encounter 64, no. 1
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Beardslee, William A. “Review: Beyond the Impasse:  The Promise of a Process Hermeneutic, by Ronlad L. Farmer.”  In Process Studies 28, no.1-2 (Spring-Summer 1999): 152-4.

_____. “Truth in the Study of Religion.”  In Truth, Myth, and Symbol   (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1962): 61-65. [Abstract]

Beardslee, William A, ed. America and the Future of Theology. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968. [abstract]

_____.  “Truth in the Study of Religion.” In Truth, Myth, and Symbol, eds., T. J. J. Altizer, W. A. Beardslee, and J. H. Young (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962), 61-75. [abstract]  [Biblical Studies, Hermeneutics, Language]

Braithwaite, R. B., Christopher Clarke, Dorothy Emmet, Margaret Masterman, Rupert Sheldrake and Jonathan Westphal. “The Pardshaw Dialogues: Sense Awareness and the Passage of Nature.” Process Studies 16, no.2 (Summer, 1987): 82-145.

Breuvart, Jean-Marie. “Les Directives de la Symbolisation et les Modeles de Reference dans la Philosophie d'A. N. Whitehead.”  Ph.D. Dis., L'Universite de Lille III, 1976.

_____. "Quelques Reflections Sur La Notion Whiteheadienne de Prohension, Comme United D'Auto-Signification." (unpub).

Bromwell, David J. “Charles Hartshorne on Metaphysical Statements.”  Pacifica 5 (1992): 170-181.

Brown, Frank Burch. "Poetry and the Possibility of Theology:  Whitehead'sViews Reconsidered."  The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 50, no.4 ( . . . ):  507-20.

_____. "Poetry and Religious Reflection: Alfred North Whitehead on Metaphysical Thinking." Transfiguration: Poetic Metaphor and the Languages of Religious Belief. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. 123-147.

_____. Transfiguration: Poetic Metaphor and the Languages of Religious Belief. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Butt, David G. "Whiteheadian and Functional Linguistics" Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 21-32. [abstract]

Cheng, Chung-Ying. “Chinese Philosophy and Symbolic Reference: Whitehead, I Ching and Tao Te Ching [Presented Under the Title “Chinese Philosophy in Whiteheadian Language.]”, April 1976 [Conference paper: Whitehead and Chinese Philosophy, Univ. of Colorado].

Christ, Carol P. “Feminist Re-imaginings of the Divine and Hartshorne’s God: One and the Same?” Feminist Theology 11, no. 1 (2002): 99-115. [abstract]

Christensen, Darrel E. “A Throb of Creation and the Making of Meaning: Toward a Neo-Hegelian Whiteheadian Concept of Meaning.” 8, no.3 (Summer 1981): 25-43.

Clarke, Bowman L. Language and Natural Theology.  The Hague: Monton, 1966. [Analytic Theology, Language, Naturalism]

_____.“Linguistic Analysis and the Philosophy of Religion.” The Monist 47, no.3 (Spring, 1963): 365-86. [Analytic Philosophy, Language]

Cobb, John B., Jr. "Content Matters Too."  The Peer Age [Methodist Preaching Group. 3:1 (December 1991).

_____. “Dialogue Without Common Ground.”  In Weltoffenheit aus chris­thichen Glaubens: Fritz Buri zu ehren (Bern: Verlag Paul Haupt, 1987), 145-54.

_____. “Does It Make Sense to Talk About God?” In Essentials of Christian Theology, ed.

_____.William C. Placher. (Knoxville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003), 60-76.

_____. “Evangelical Theology in Process Perspective.” [unpublished]

_____."Experience and Language." Chromatikon II (2006): 137-149.

_____. “Experience and Language.”  Novemnber 1983, 13 pp. AAR Paper for a seminar on Whitehead and Nishida School of Buddhist Philosophy, Anaheim, California.

_____. “Jesus’ Message of the Basileia Theou.” Spafer Oasis (September-October 2003) 7-9.

_____. “Ordinary-Language Philosophy of Religion: A Critique.”  January 1980, 11pp. Conference Paper: “New Directions in Philosophy of Religion,” Claremont, California.

_____. “Theological Realism.” (unpubl.) [AAR Conference, November 2003]

Cobb, John, David Griffin, Arabinda Basu, S. M. Lamb, and John Regan. “Whitehead and Lamb: A New Network of Connection.”  Claremont, CA: The Claremont Graduate School, 1982. [Whorfian Linguistics]

Coleman, Monica A. "From Models of God to a Model of Gods: How Whiteheadian Metaphysics Facilitates Western Language Discussion of Divine Multiplicity." Philosophia 35 (2007): 329-40. [African, Metaphysics, Pluralism, God Concepts, Language]

Coppock, Patrick J. "Pragmaticism and Semiotics." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag: 2008. 41-53. [abstract]

Crosby, Donald A. “Review of Risk and Rhetoric in Religion: Whitehead's Theory of Language and the Discourse of Faith, by Lyman T. Lundeen.”  In Process Studies 3, no.1 (Spring 1973): 55-64.

_____. “Whitehead on the Metaphysical Employment of Language.”  Process Studies 1, no.1 (Spring, 1971): 38-54. [abstract]

Dilley, Frank Brown, Jr. “Metaphysics, Language, and Theology.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Columbia University, 1961.

Dilley, Frank B. Metaphysics and Religious Language. NY: Columbia Univ Pr, 1964. [abstract]

Earle, William James. “Thoughts and Beliefs.”  Dialogos 22 (July 1987): 135-43. [abstract]

Emmet, Dorothy. “Language and Metaphysics: Introduction to a Symposium.”  Theoria to Theory 2 (1977): 49-56.

Fortescue, Michael. "Pattern and Process." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 33-40. [abstract]

_____. “The Pattern and Process of Language in Use: A Test Case.”  Axiomathes 14 (2004): 177-218.

Frankenberry, Nancy. “Inquiry and the Language of the Divine: A Reply to Proudfoot.” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 14, no.3 (September 1993).

_____. “Language About the Totality.” Encounter: 41-58.

Franklin, Stephen T. Speaking from the Depths: Alfred North Whitehead's Hermeneutical Metaphysics of Propositions, Experience, Symbolism, Language and Religion. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1990. [abstract]

_____. "Theory of Language." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 5-20. [abstract]

Fu, Charles Wei-hsun. “The Trans-Onto-Theo-Logical Foundations of Language in Heidegger and Taoism”, 24 March 1975 [Conference Paper].

_____. “The Underlying Structure of Metaphysical Language: A Case Examination of Language and Chinese Philosophy” 1976.

Funk, Robert W. “Language Event in the Theology of Ernst Fuchs and Gerhard Ebeling: An Interpretive Essay”, n.d. (Unublished.)

_____. “Saying and Seeing: Phenomenology of Language and the New Testament.” The Journal of Bible and Religion 34, no. 3 (July 1966): 197-213.

Gale, Richard M. “Disanalogies Between Space and Time”, n.d. [Unpublished].  [Analytic Philosophy, Agency, Time and Space, Language]

Gardner, Howard.  “Green Ideas Sleeping Furiously.” Review of Two Books: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker (Harpercollins) and Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on cognitive Science by Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Bradford/MIT Press), New York Times 42, no. 5 (March 23, 1995).

Ginsberg, Mitchell. “Action and Communication.”  Human Context 6 (Spring 1974): 81-102. [abstract]

Grant, Brian W. “God-Representations in the Face of Trans-Cultural Experience.”  Encounter 63 no.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2002): 99-108.

Greenman, Martin Allen. “A Whiteheadian Analysis of Propositions and Facts.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 13 (1952-53): 477-86. [abstract]

_____. “A Whiteheadian Theory of Meaning.”  Philosophy of Science 20 (1953): 31-41. [abstract]

_____. “Whitehead's Theory of Meaning.”  Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Chicago, 1950.

Griffin, David R. “Justifying Religious Convictions”, n.d. (Unublished.)

Hartshorne, Charles. Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983 [1970]. [Chs. 7, 11, 15]

_____. “Martin on the Language of Philosophy: Response to R.M. Martin's on the Language of Theology: Hartshorne and Quine”, November 1981.

_____. “Philosophical Language and Ordinary Language.”  Summer 1958, 13pp. A seminary paper for the Kyoto American Studies Program, Kyoto, Japan.

_____. “Whitehead and Ordinary Language.”  Southern Journal of Philosophy 7, no.4 (Winter 1969-70): 437-45.

Hefner, Philip. “Theology and Science: Engaging the Richness of Experience.” Theology and Science. 1, no. 1 (April 2003): 95-111. [abstract]

Henry, Granville C., Jr.  “Mathematics, Phenomenology, and Language Analysis in Contemporary Theology.”  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 35 (1967): 337-49. [Analytic Philosohy, Language, Mathematics]

Hereford, Thomas G.  “The Significance of ‘Imaginative Contexts’ in Analytical and Speculative Philosophy.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.  University of Virginia, 1962. [Analytic Philosophy, Language]

Hornbeck, Charles Edward. “Whitehead's Theory of Meaning.”  Ph.D. Dissertation. Emory University, 1976.

Howell, Nancy R. “The Importance of Being Chimpanzee.” Theology and Science. 1, no. 2 (October 2003): 179-91. [abstract] [Aesthetics, Language, God Concepts, Sin, Spirituality]

_____. “Metaphorical Foundations of Language and Theology: An Analysis of Sallie McFague's Contribution to Theological Discourse.” Church Divinity (1983): 38-51.

Hunnicutt, Susan. “Jesus' Parables, Language and the Common World: A Response to Dominic Crossan's Theology of Story.” MA Thesis.

Hutchison, John. “Some (Hypo)theses Concerning the Nature of Metaphysical Utterance and Religious Utterance and Their Relation.”  (unpubl.)

Ives, Chris. “Nishida and Whitehead on Experience and Language: A Response to Shizuteru Ueda and John B. Cobb, Jr.”, n.d.

Ives, Christopher A. “Nishida and Whitehead on Experience and Language: A Response to Shizteru Ueda and John B. Cobb, Jr.”, n.d.

Jaffey, Alan. Awakening the Spirit of Philosophy. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2005. [abstract]

Janzen, J. Gerald. “The Old Testament in ‘Process’ Perspective: Proposals for a Way Forward in Biblical Theology.”  In Magnalia Dei: The Mighty Acts of God, eds., F. Y. Cross, et al (New York: Doubleday, 1976), 480-509. [abstract]

Keeling, L. Bryant. Review of Charles Hartshorne, by Alan Gragg 5, no. 1 (Spring 1975): 300-02.  [abstract]

Kelly, Thomas A.F. Language and Transcendence; A Study in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Karl-Otto Apel. New York, NY: Peter Lange, 1994. [abstract]

_____. Language, World and God: An Essay in Ontology.  Dublin: The Columbia Press, 1996. [abstract]

Kosaka, Kunitsugu. “Experience and Language in Nishida”, n.d.

_____. “Experience and Language in Nishida: A Response to Shizuteru Ueda”, n.d.

Langer, Susanne K. Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978 [1942].

Latour, Bruno.  “Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern”  Critical Inquiry 30, no. 2 (Winter 2004).

Lee, Bernard. “A Process Theology of God-Experience and God-Talk”, October 1978 [Conference Paper].

_____. “A Process Theology of Religious Experience and Discourse.” Religion In Life 48, no. 4 (Winter 1979): 434-48.

Lindsey, James. “The Subjectivist Principle and the Linguistic Turn Revisited.” Process Studies 6, no. 2 (Summer 1976): 97-102. [abstract]

Loomer, Bernard. “Process Thought and Religious Language.” (unpubl.) [abstract]  

Louch, Alfred. “Cobb on Ordinary-Language Philosophy of Religion: A Critique.”  (unpubl.)  [Philosophy of Religion; Ordinary-Langauge Philosophy; Cobb Critique]

Lull, David J. “Language and Gnostic Origins: New Testament Studies and Philosophical Presuppositions”, 1974 [Unpublished Work].

Lundeen, Lyman Timothy. “Language About God: Some Implications of Whitehead’s Philosophy for Religious Language.” Th.D. Dissertation. Union Theological Seminary, 1969.

Lundeen, Lyman T. Risk and Rhetoric in Religion: Whitehead's Theory of Language and the Discourse of Faith. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1972. [abstract]

Martin, R.M. Events, Reference, and Logical Form. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of American Press, 1978. [abstract]

_____.  “On the Language of Theology: Hartshorne and Quine.”  In Existence and Actuality, eds. John B. Cobb, Jr. and Franklin I. Gamwell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 43-66.

Martins, Antonio Manuel. “A Filosofia Da Linguagem of Whitehead.”  Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 28 (Apr-Jan 1972): 151-172. (Portuguese). [abstract]

Mattioli, Janice. “Alfred North Whitehead and Language.”  International Journal for Field Being. 1, no.1 (2001).

Meland, Bernard. “Language and Reality in Christian Faith.” Encounter 34 (1973): 173-90.

Merrell, Floyd. "Cultures, Timespace, and the Border of Borders: Posing as a Theory of Semiosic Processes." Semiotica  154, nos. 1/4 (2005): 287-353.

Mesle, C. Robert. Review of New Essays in Religious Naturalism, by W. Creighton Peden and Larry E. Axel, eds. In International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 40 (December 1996): 177-9.

McAfee, Noëlle Claire. “Resisting Essence: Kristeva’s Process Philosophy.” Philosophy Today 44, supp. (2000): 77-83.

McClure, G. “The Special Jargons of Philosophy: Insights, or Barriers, to Understanding?”  Metaphilosophy 12 (Jan. 1981): 62-71. [abstract]

McDaniel, Jay and Liu Ying. "Teaching Chinese to Americans with Help from Whitehead." Process Perspectives: Newsmagazine of the Center for Process Studies 30, no. 1 (Summer 2007): 4-5. 

 Meland, Bernard. “Analogy and Myth in Postliberal Theology.”  (unpubl.)

_____. Fallible Forms and Symbols: Discourses on Method in a Theology of Culture. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976. [abstract]

McAlester, Alan P. “Metaphysical Propositions: The Views of Brand Blanshard and Charles Hartshorne.”  Ph.D. Dis., University of Toronto, [???].

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

Moore, Harold, Robert Neville, and William Sullivan. "The Contours of Responsibility: A New Model." Man and World 5 (November 1972): 392-420.

Mosley, Fred. “Bultmann’s Demythologizing.” (unpubl.) [abstract] [Biblical Studies, Language, Myth]

Muray, Les. “Language and Experience in Whitehead: A Response to John Cobb.” (unpubl.)

Neville, Robert Cummings.  “Naturalism and Supernaturalism in American Theology.”  American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 26, no 1&2 (January-May 2005):  77-84.

Oden, Thomas C. “From Event to Language: The Church’s Use of Gnostic Mythology.” Religion in Life (1967): 92-99. [abstract]

Ogden, Schubert M. “What Sense Does It Make to Say ‘God Acts In History’”?  Journal of Religion 43, no.1 (1963): 1-19.

Olewiler, B. T. “Whitehead's Philosophy of Language and the Whorf Hypoth­esis.” Ph.D. Dis., Johns Hopkins University, 1971.

Overman, Richard. “Life, Purpose, and The Inheritances of Acquired Characteristics.” June 1974 [Conference Paper].

Pedraja, Luis G. “Whitehead, Deconstruction, and Postmodernism.” Process Studies 28, no. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1999): 68-84.

Pixley, Jorge V. ¿“Que es el fundamentalismo?” Vida y Pensamiento 23, no. 1 (Semestre 1 2003): 13-21.

Romero, Gorgias. “On the title of Process and Reality.” Seminar paper presented in Butler, Claremont School of Theology. September 22, 2008. [abstract] 

Saito, Nobuto. “On Whitehead’s Theory of Propositions.”  Process Thought 10 (2002): 111-124.

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

Schwer, Sylviane. "Whitehead's Construction of Time: A Linguistic  Approach." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Hesusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 55-61. [abstract]

Shields, George W. and Donald W. Viney. “The Logic of Future Contingents.”  In Process and Analysis. ed. George W. Shields (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003),  209-246.

Smith, James Leroy. Review of Art and the Religious Experience: The “Language” of the Sacred, by David F. Martin. In Process Studies 3, no. 3 (Fall 1973): 230-5.

Smith, John E. “Religious Insight and the Cognitive Problem.”  Religious Studies. 7: 97-112. [abstract]

Sontag, Fredrick. “Why Language About God Cannot Be Final: Change in God vs.
 Changing Language About God.” The Heythrop Journal. 9, no. 4 (October 1968): 371-83. [abstract]

Stewart, Claude Y. “Adventuring—Divine and Human.” (unpubl.)

Sweeney, John M. “Implications of Whitehead, Whorf, and Piaget for Inclusive Language in Religious Education.”  Ph.D. Dissertation. Claremont: School of Theology at Claremont, 1993. [abstract]

Towne, Edgar A. "Semantics and Hartshorne's Dipolar Theism." Process Studies 28, nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1999): 231-254.

Urban, Wilbur M. “Elements of Unintelligibility in Whitehead's Meta­physics: The Problem of Language in Process and Reality.”  Journal of Philosophy 35 (1938): 617-637.

Walker, Theodore, Jr. "Why Avoid Statements About What God Cannot Do? A Note Neoclassical and Process Metaphysicians." Process Studies 28, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1999): 137-8.

Wen, Haiming.  "From Substance Language to Vocabularies of Process and Change: Translations of Key Philosophical Terms in the Zhongyon." Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 3, no. 2 (June 2004): 217-233.

Whitehead, Alfred North. Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1959 [1927].

Wood, Richard James. “Conceptual Frameworks and ‘Necessary Existence.’” (unpubl.) [abstract]

Woodbridge, Barry A. “Bibliography and Topical Summary on Whitehead's Understanding of Language.”  (unpubl.)

_____. “God, Being, and Language: Problematical Relatinoships in Heideggerian- Ingluenced Exegesis. (unpubl.)

Yasuo, Yuasa. "Image-Thinking and the Understanding of "Being": The Psychological Basis of Linguistic Expression." Philosophy East & West 55, no. 2 (April 2005): 179-208. [abstract]