Process Thought and Philosophy of Nature
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]
Allan, George. “Measuring the Recovery.” [Response to Neville’s Recovery of the Measure.]
Allan, George and Merle F. Allshouse, eds. Nature, Truth, and Value: Exploring the Thinking of Frederick Ferré. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. [abstract]
Ames, Roger T. "Taoism and the Nature of Nature." Environmental Ethics 8, no. 4 (Winter 1986): 317-50. [abastract]
Athearn, Daniel. “Prospects for Physical Ontology: A Philosopher's Assessment.” Physics Essays 10, no.4 (1997): 558-67. [abstract]
Bain, Jonathan. "Whitehead's Theory of Gravity." Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 29, no. 4 (1998): 547-574.
Balz, A. G. A. “Whitehead, Descartes, and the Bifurcation of Nature.” Journal of Philosophy 31, no.11 (1934): 281-297.
Basile, Pierfrancesco. Review of Consciousness and its Place in Nature. Does Physicalism entail Panpsychism? by Galen Strawson, et al. Process Studies 36, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2007): 150-53.
Beth, E.W and H. J. Pos, Eds. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy, Amsterdam, August 11-18, 1948. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1949. [Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion, Ontology, Mathematics, Metaphysics, Philosopy of Nature]
Birch, L. Charles. “Concept of Nature.” Australian Journal of Science 12:6 (June 1950): 193-198.
_____. Feelings. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995. [abstract]
_____. Nature and God. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1965. [abstract]
_____. On Purpose. Kensington, New South Wales: New South Wales University Press, 1990. [abstract]
_____. "Processing Towards Life." Process Studies 27, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998): 280-91.
_____. “Two Ways of Interpreting Nature.” Austrailia Natural History 21:2 (1983): 68-69.
Bogaard, Paul A. and Gordon Treash, eds. Metaphysics as Foundation: Essays in Honor of Ivor Leclerc. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. [abstract]
Bohm, David. “Fragmentation and Wholeness.” (Unpubl., 1974) [Abstract]
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.
Bracken, Joseph. “Absolute Nothingness and The Divine Matrix.” International Journal for Field-Being 1, no.11 (December 2001), 6 June 2003 < http://www.iifb.org/ijfb >.
Brogaard, Berit. “The Coup de Grace for Mechanistic Metaphysics: Capek’s New Philosophy of Nature.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36, no.1 (Winter 2000): 75-108. [Issue 36:1 of Transactions is available at the Center.]
Brown, Delwin. "Religion and Reverence for Nature: Donald A. Crosby's Religion of Nature." American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 26, no. 3 (September 2005): 171-83.
_____. “‘Respect for the Rocks: Toward a Christian Process Theology of Nature.” Encounter 50:4 (Autumn, 1989): 309-21.
Brown, Jason W. Mind and Nature: Essays on Time and Subjectivity. London and Philadelphia: Whurr Publishers, 2000. [abstract]
Buchler, Justus. “Probing the Idea of Nature.” Process Studies 8:3 (Fall 1978): 157-168.
Calore, Gary Stephen. “Temporality and Radical Naturalism.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Bryn Mawr College, 1986. [abstract]
Cappon, Alexander P. "Aspects of Wordworth and Whitehead: Philosophy and Certain Continuing Life Problems." New York: Philosophical Library, 1983. [abstract]
Case-Winters, Anna. “Rethinking the Image of God.” Zygon 39, no. 4 (December 2004): 813-826. [abstract]
Cheng, Chung-Ying. "'Unity of Three Truths' and Three Forms of Creativity: Lotus Sutra and Process Philosophy." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 28, no. 4 (December 2001): 449-456.
Clarke, W. Norris, S.J. “Christian Theism and Whiteheadian Process Philosophy: Are They Compatible?.” Logos 1 (1980): 9-44. [abstract]
Cobb, John B., Jr. “Befriending an Amoral Nature.” Zygon 23:4 (December 1988): 431-436.
_____. “The Limitations of Neo-Darwinism and Evidence for a Whiteheadian Theory of Evolution.” Worldviews 11 (2007): 32-43. [abstract]
_____. “Whitehead and Natural Philosophy.” Whitehead and the Idea of Process, eds., Harald Holz and Ernest Wolf-Gazo. Freiburg/Munich: Verlag Karl Alber, 1984, pp. 137-153.
Code, Murray. "Bodies, Minds, and Souls: On Putting Life Back into Nature" Process Studies 35, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2006): 230-69.
_____. "Explanation and Natural Philosophy: Or, the Rationalization of Mysticism." Process Studies 27, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998): 308-27.
Collingwood, R. G. The Idea of Nature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970 [1945], pp. 165-174. [abstract]
Conway, Charles G. "Defining Spirit": An Encounter between Naturalists and Trans-naturalists." Theology and Science 5, No. 2 (July 2007): 169-183. [abstract]
Corrington, Robert S. Nature and Spirit: An Essay in Ecstatic Naturalism. New York: Fordham University Press, 1992. [abstract]
_____. Nature's Self: Our Journey From Origin to Spirit. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996. [abstract]
Crosby, Donald A. A Religion of Nature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. [abstract]
Daya, Krishna. The Nature of Philosophy. Prachi Prakashan, Calcutta, 1955, 233 pages.
Debaise, Didier. "Les ordres de al nature dans Procès et réalité." Chromatikon II (2006): 49-60.
de Quincey, Christian. Radical Nature: Rediscovering the Soul of Matter. Montpelier, VT: Invisible Cities Press, 2002. [abstract]
Desmet, Ronny. Review of Des Événements Aux Objects: La Méthode de L'abstraction Extensive Chez A. N. Whitehead [Frome Events to Objects: A. N. Whitehead's Method of Extensive Abstraction] by Guillaume Durand. Process Studies 37, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2008): 189-92.
Dewey, John. Experience and Nature. New York: Dover Publications, 1958. [abstract]
Dombrowski, Daniel. “Nature as Personal.” Philosophy and Theology 5, no. 1 (Fall 1990): 81-96. [See Journal in the Journal Shelf].
_____. "Panpsychism." The Wordsworth Circle 19, no. 1 (Winter, 1988): 38-45.
Durand, Guillaume, "Whitehead et Einstein: le problème des relations." Chromatikon II (2006): 61-73.
Eastman, Timothy E. “Cosmic Agnosticism.” Process Studies 36, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2007): 181-97. [abstract]
_____. "Our Cosmos, from Substance to Process." World Futures 64 (2008) 84-93. [abstract]
Emmet, Dorothy. The Passage of Nature. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. [abstract]
Falk, Arthur E., Jr. “A Many-Sorted Ontology and the Progress of Science: An Interpretation of Whitehead’s Early Philosophy of Nature as a Proposal for Language Reform.” Ph.D. Dis., 1965.
Ferré, Frederick. “Value, Time, and Nature.” Environmental Ethics 17, no.4 (Winter 1995): 417-31. [unpublished paper available]
_____. "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.
_____. "Personalism and the Dignity of Nature." in Personalism Revisited. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B.V. 2002, 104-121.
Ford, Lewis S. “The Nature of Physical Existence.” Process Studies 3:2 (Summer 1973): 104-118.
Franck, Robert. "Qu'est-ce qu'une couleur? Philosophie de la nature et approche phénoménologique de la couleur." Chromatikon II. (2006): 97-109.
Gelber, Sidney and Kathleen Wallace. “Justice Buchler: Nature, Power, and Prospect.” Process Studies 15, no.2 (Summer 1986): 106-19. [North American Philosophers, Nature, Power]
Gunter, Peter A.Y. "Bergson and the War Against Nature." in The New Bergson, edited by John Mullarkley (Manchester: Manchester University Press: 1999), 168-182. [Bergson, Environment, Nature]
_____.“A Whiteheadian Aesthetics of Nature: Beauty and the Forest.” Process Studies 33, no.2 (Fall-Winter 2004): 314-322. [Aesthetics, Philosophy of Nature]
Hardwick, Charley D. “The Power of Religious Naturalism in Karl Peters’s Dancing With the Sacred.” In Zygon 40, no. 3 (September 2005) 667-681. [abstract]
Harris, Errol E. Nature, Mind and Modern Science, 2nd Ed. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1968. [abstract]
Hartshorne, Charles. Beyond Humanism: Essays in the Philosophy of Nature. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1975.
_____. “Outlines of a Philosophy of Nature, Part I.” Personalist 39:3 (Summer 1958): 239-48; “Part II.” Ibid., 39:4 (Autumn 1958): 380-391.
_____. "A Psychologist's Philosophy Evaluated After Fifty Years: Troland's Psychical Monism." Process Studies 30, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2001): 237-41.
Haught, John F. “Darwin and Contemporary Theology.” Worldviews 11 (2007): 44-57. [abstract]
_____. Nature and Purpose. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1980. [abstract]
Hefner, Philip. “Theology and Science: Engaging the Richness of Experience.” Theology and Science. 1, no. 1 (April 2003): 95-111. [abstract]
Henning, Brian G. The Ethics of Creativity. Pittsburg: The University of Pittsburg Press, 2005.
Holzhey, Helmut. “Das Postulat eines neuen Naturbegrifs. Zur Kritik an der aristotelischen Naturphilosophie bei Leibniz und Whitehead.” Natur, Subjektivitat, Gott, eds., Helmut Holzhey, Alois Rust, and Reiner Wiehl. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1990, pp. 18-40.
Huff, Russell C. "Reflections on the Independent Development of Process Philosophy Ideas by a Field Mineralogist: The Speculative Philosophy of Ronald E. Januzzi." (unpub): January 2007.
Jenkins, Phil. Review of The Ethics of Creativity: Beuty, Morality, and Nature in a Processive Cosmos by Brian G. Henning Process Studies37, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2008): 192-95.
Keller, Catherine. A Response to the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 77, no. 1 (March 2009), 56-59.
Kirk, James. Organicism as Reenchantment: Whitehead, Prigogine, and Barth. New York: Peter Lang, 1993. [abstract}
Khandker, Wahida. "Two Natures: Whitehead on Bergsonism, Dualism, and Becoming-Subject." Process Studies 36, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2007): 245-71. [abstract]
Lachman, Rolf ed."Susanne K. Langer's Notes on Whitehead's Course on Philosophy of Nature."Process Studies 26, nos.1-2 (Spring-Summer 1997): 126-50. [abstract]
Lango, John W. Review of After Whitehead: Rescher on Process Metaphysics. Edited by Michel Weber. Process Studies 35, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2006): 363-66.
Laszlo, Ervin. The Systems View of the World. New York: George Braziller, 1972.
Lawrence, Nathaniel. “Nature and the Educable Self in Whitehead.” Educational Theory 15, no. 3 (July 1965): 205-16. [abstract]
Leclerc, Ivor. The Nature of Physical Existence. New York: Humanities Press, 1972. [abstract]
_____. “The Necessity Today of the Philosophy of Nature.” Process Studies 3:3 (Fall 1973): 158-168.
_____. The Philosophy Of Nature. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 1986. [abstract]
_____. “Process and Order in Nature.” Whitehead and the Idea of Process, eds., Harald Holz and Ernest Wolf-Gazo. Freiburg/Munich: Verlag Karl Alber, 1984, pp. 119-136.
Lowe, Victor. “Conceptions of Nature in the Philosophical System of Whitehead, Russell, and Alexander.” Ph.D. Dis., Harvard University, 1935.
Lucas, George R., Jr. “Whitehead’s ‘Organic Mechanism’ and Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Nature’.” (unpubl.)
Malin, Shimon. Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, a Western Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. [abstract]
Meland, Bernard E. “Attachment to Life.” (Unpubl.) [abstract]
Merchant, Carolyn. “The Mechanical Order.” The Death of Nature. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1980. [Background for the Postmodern Conf.]
Neidorf, Robert A. “Bifurcation and Events: A Study in Einstein, Russell, and Whitehead.” Ph.D. Dis., Yale University, 1959.
Neville, Robert C. Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. [abstract]
Oliver, Harold H. “Relational Metaphysics and Western Non-Substantialism.” International Journal for Field-Being 1, no.1 (2001), 14 July 2003 <http://www.iifb.org/ijfb >.
Parkes, Graham. "Review: Phanomenologie der Natur, by Cho, Kah Kyung and Young-Ho Lee, eds. (1999)." 51, no. 4 (October 2001): 560-561.
Powers, Joseph M. “Natural Theory in Karl Rahner.” (Unpubl.) [abstract]
Reck, Andrew. Speculative Philosophy: A Study of Its Nature, Types and Uses. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1972. [abstract]
Robert, Franck. "Qu'est-ce qu'une couleur? I. Philosophie de la nature et approche phénoménologique de la couleur." Chromatikon II. (2006): 97-109.
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]
Ross, Stephen David. "The Inexhaustibility of Nature." Journal of Value Inquiry 7, no. 4 (Winter 1973): 241-253. [abstract]
Santmire, H. Paul and John B. Jr. Cobb. "The World of Nature According to the Protestant Tradition." In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology ed. by Roger S. Gottlieb (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006): 115-46.
Salmon, James F. "Teilhard's Law of Complexity-Consciousness." Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 61 (2005): 185-202. [abstract]
Saw, R. L. “The Grounds of Induction in Professor Whitehead’s Philosophy of Nature.” Philosophical Studies, ed., Hannay et al., London: Allen & Unwin, 1948, pp. 129-139.
Schulkin, Jay. "Evolving Sensibilities of Our Conception of Nature." Process Studies 27, nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter): 241-54.
Seaman, Francis. “Note on Whitehead and the Order of Nature.” Process Studies 5:2 (Summer 1975): 129-133.
Sharpe, Kevin J. and John M. Ker, eds. Religion and Nature - with Charles Birch and Others. Proceedings of the Eighth Auckland Religious Studies Colloquium, May 14-16, 1982. Auckland: University of Auckland Chaplaincy, 1984. [abstract]
Smith, Norman Kemp. “Whitehead’s Philosophy of Nature.” The Credibility of Divine Existence, eds., A. J. D. Porteous, et al. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1967, pp. 226-250.
Soelle, Dorothee and Shirley A. Cloyes. To Work and To Love: A Theology of Creation. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984. [abstract]
Soleri, Paolo. The Bridge Between Matter and Spirit Is Matter Becoming Spirit: the Arcology of Paolo Soleri. Garden City: Anchor Books, 1973. [abstract]
Sprigge, Timothy L. “Review: Nature: An Environmental Cosmology, by Joseph Grange.” In Process Studies 27, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998): 354-7.
Stalknecht, Newton P. "Strange Seas of Thought: Studies in William Wordsworth's Philosophy of Man and Nature." Connecticut:Greenwood Press, 1977.
Stapp, Henry P. “Quantum Theory and the Role of Mind in Nature.” Foundation of Physics 31, no. 10 (October 2001): 1465-1499. [abstract]
Stempsey, William E. “Miracles and the limits of medical knowledge.” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 5 (2002): 1-9 [abstract]
Stenger, Isabelle. The Universe is One: Towards a Theory of Knowledge and Life. Paul Oliver. Lanham: University Press of America, 1999, ix-xxi.
Stephens, Piers H. "Toward a Jamesian Environmental Philosophy." Environmental Ethics. 31:3 (Fall 2009): 227-244. [abstract]
Stolz, Joachim. "The Research Program in Natural Philosophy from Gauss and Riemann to Einstein and Whitehead: From the Theory of Invariants to the Idea of a Field Theory of Cognition." Prima Philosophia 10, no. 2 (1997): 157-64. [abstract]
Stone, Alison. "Friedrich Schlegel, Romanticism, and the Re-enchantment of Nature.” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 48, no. 1 (February 2005): 3-25. [abstract] [Aesthetics, Creativity, Nature]
Toscano, Alberto. "Merleau-Ponty, Whitehead y la Política de la Naturaleza." Eidos 4 (2006): 72-99. [abstract] (available in electronic format only)
Umbelino, Luis Antonio. "A Natureza em Merleau-Ponty: Prolegomenos a uma leitura das Notes de Cours du College de France, 1956-1960." Revista Portugesa de Filosofia 59, no. 3 (2003): 713-730.
Verley, Xavier. "Ernst Mach, un physicien philosophe." Chromatikon II, (2006): 111-119.
_____. "Vie et Rythmes." tr. from Alfred North Whitehead, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural knowledge, Chapter 64. Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’Étranger 196, no. 1 (2006): 73-76.
Waddington, C. H. “The Natural Philosophy of Life.” In The Nature of Life, C. H. Waddington. New York: Atheneum, 1962, 11-24.
Weiss, Paul. “Recollections of Alfred North Whitehead (Interviewed by Lewis S. Ford).” Process Studies 10, no. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1980): 44-56. [abstract]
Whitehead, A. N. Alfred North Whitehead--His Reflection on Man and Nature. Anshen, R. N. (Ed.). New York: Harper & Brothers Publisher, 1961.
_____. The Concept of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920. http://paradigm.soci.brocku.ca/~lward/Whitehead/White1_pref.html
_____. Nature and Life. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980 [1934].
_____. “Theories of the Bifurcation of Nature.” The Interpretation of Science, ed., A. H. Johnson. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1961, pp. 37-55.
Wood, David. "The Ecological Imagination: A Whiteheadian Exercise in Temporal Phronesis." (Unpublished)
Yong, Amos. Review of Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love: Process and Wesleyan Theologies in Dialogue in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society vol 45, issue 3, 2002.
_____. Divine Omniscience and Future Contingents: Weighing the Presuppositional Issues in the Contemporary Debate in Evagelical Review of Theology, vol 26, issue 3, 2002.
Young, Henry James. "God and the World: A Process Perspective" in Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center. Vol 2, issue 2, Spring 1975. [abstract]
Zangger, Christian. Theologie und Metaphysik: Whitehead's Organismusphilosophie und die amerikanische Prozesstheologie in Zurcher Zeitung Vol. 42; February 19-20, 1983; page 60
Zhang, Nini. Adventures in Respecting Nature Through Whitehead and Confucius presented at International Conference on Creativity and Process, 2007.