Process Thought, Plato, Platonism, and Neoplatonism

Atkins, Anselm.  “Neville’s Dialectical Argument for an Indeterminate Creator.” Theological Studies 30, no. 1 (March 1969): 90-107. [abstract]

Bar-On, Zvie A. “Whitehead’s Platonism” [in Hebrew]. Iyun 8 (1957): 214-36.

Bigger, Charles P. Participation: A Platonic Inquiry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968. [abstract] [See references to Whitehead]

Brennan, J. G. “Alfred North Whitehead: Plato’s Lost Dialogue.” The American Scholar 47, no.4 (Autumn, 1978): 515-24.

_____.  “Whitehead on Plato’s Cosmology.”  Journal of the History of Philosophy 9 (1971): 67-78.  [Abstract]

Brumbaugh, Robert S.  "Systems, Tenses, and Choices."  Midwestern Journal of Philosophy (Spring 1975): 9-13. [abstract]

Carone, Gabriela Roxana. "Creation in the Timaeus: The Middle Way." Apeiron 37, no. 3 (November 2004): 211-226.

Charles, S. R. The Emergent Metaphysics in Plato's Theory of Disorder. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. [abstract]

Cook, Patricia.  "Neville's Use of Plato."  In Interpreting Neville, eds. J. Harley Chapman and Nancy K. Frenkenberry (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), 45-57.

Cousins, Ewert H.  Bonaventure and the Coincidence of Opposites. Chicago:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1978.  [Process Thought and Bonaventure, pp. 229-67; Bonaventure as Neoplatonic]

Dilworth, David A.  “The Platonism-Pragmatism Polarity in Whitehead’s Thought.”  Ph.D. Dis., Fordham University, 1963.

Dombrowski, Daniel A.  “An Anticipation of Hartshorne:  Plotinus on ‘Daktylos’ and the World-Soul.”  The Heythrop Journal 29:4 (October 1988): 462-467.

_____.  "Being 'Is' Power."  American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 16, no. 3 (Sept. 1995): 299-314.  [abstract]

_____. "Hartshorne and Plato." in The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne. ed. by Lewis E. Hahn (La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing Company, 1991): 465-88.

_____. A Platonic Philosophy of Religion: A Process Perspective. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. [abstract]

_____.  Plato’s Philosophy of History.  Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981. [abstract]

_____. "Popper's World 3 and Plato." Diotima 12 (1984): 186-191.

_____.  "Rorty and Popper on the Footnotes to Plato."  Dialogos 22 (Jan. 1987): 135-45.  [abstract]

_____.  Thoreau the Platonist.  American University Studies.  New York: Peter Lang, 1986.

Duclow, Donald F.  “The Dynamics of Analogy in Nicholas of Cusa.” International Philosophical Quarterly 21:3 (­[???]): [Nicholas of Cusa “presents the opportunity for an encounter between the traditions of Neoplatonism and contemporary process thought.”)

Emmet, Dorothy. “Are Eternal Objects Platonic Ideas?” In Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1966), 102-39.

_____. “Cosmic, Ethical and Aesthetic Order in the 'Timaeus' and in Whitehead's Philosophy.”  In Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1966), 220-41.

Epperly, Bruce. "Creation and Causation in Whitehead and Plato’s Timaeus.”  [PM 3:4]

_____.  “Is Whitehead a Platonist?  Creation and Causation in Plato’s Timaeus and Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism.” Ph.D. Dis., Clare­mont Graduate School, 1980.

Eslick, Leonard J.  “The Material Substrate in Plato.”  In The Concept of Matter in Greek and Medieval Philosophy, ed., Ernan McMullin.  Notre Dame, IN:  University of Notre Dame Press, 1963, pp. 39-58.

_____.  “Plato as Dipolar Theist.”  Process Studies 12:4 (Winter 1982): 243-251.

_____.  “The Platonic Dialectic of Non-Being.”  New Scholasticism 29:1 (January, 1955): 33-49.

Faber, Roland.  “‘The Infinite Movement of Evanescence:’ The Pythagorean Puzzle in Deleuze, Whitehead, and Plato.” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 21, no. 2 (May 2000): 171-99.

______. “‘The Infinite Movement of Evanescence:’ A Relativist Analysis of The Pythagorean Puzzle in Deleuze, Whitehead, and Plato.” Seminar. Claremont School of Theology: Claremont, CA, February 22, 2000.  

_____.  “Unboundedness and Limitation—Whitehead's Final Ontology” (uppubl.)

Forsyth, T. M.  “The New Cosmology in its Historical Aspect: Plato, Newton, Whitehead.”  Philosophy 7 (1932): 54-61.

Geoghegan, William D.  Platonism in Recent Religious Thought.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1951.  [abstract]

_____.  “Varieties of Platonism in Contemporary Religious Thought.” Ph.D. Dissertation.  Columbia University, 1950.

Harris, R. Baine, ed.  The Significance of Neoplatonism.  New York: New York Press, 1976.   [abstract]

Hartshorne, Charles.  “Plato’s World Soul:  The Mind-Body Analogy for God.” In Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1984, pp. 52-56.

Hendley, Brian P., ed. Plato, Time, and Education: Essays in Honor of Robert S. Brumbaugh. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. [abstract]

Jones, John D.  “Neoplatonism.”  In The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality. [Neoplatonism is neither a One/beings dualism (theism) nor a One/beings identity (pantheism).]

Lango, John W. "Plato (427-347 BCE)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought. Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 289-286. [abstract]

Li, Huey-li. "Platonic Cosmology: A Terrestrial Pedagogy." Philosophy of Education Yearbook (2004): 130-138. [abstract]

Mohanty, Jitendra N.  Nicolai Hartmann and Alfred North Whitehead:  A Study in Recent Platonism.  Calcutta:  Progressive Publishers, 1957. [abstract]

_____.  “Whitehead’s Philosophy of ‘Process’.”  Philosophical Quarterly [India] 24 (1951): 89-104.

Moses, Greg.  "Whitehead and Plato Revisited."  Internet Paper.  The Australasian Association for Process Thought.  http://www.alfred.north.whitehead.com/discussion_papers/moses_01.htm

Muirhead, J. H.  The Platonic Tradition in Anglo-Saxon Philosophy. [See George Lucas, The Genesis of Modern Process Thought, #133.] [“Whitehead, process philosophers, and Hegel continue the tradition of Plato in the West, with their respective philosophies of organism.”] [Muirhead?  Lucas?]

Neville, Robert. Review of Socratic Ignorance: An Essay on Platonic Self-Knowledge, by Edward G. Ballard. International Philosophical Quarterly 7, no. 2 (June 1967): 240-256. [abstract]

Pailin, David A. “A Response to Neville’s Review.” (Unpubl.) [abstract]

Pols, Edward.  “The Criticism: The Platonism of Whitehead.”  In Whitehead’s Metaphysics (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967).

Rees, D. A.  “Platonism and the Platonic Tradition.”  In The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 6, ed. Paul Edwards.  New York:  Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. & The Free Press, 1967.  [Whitehead is “the last and greatest of the Cambridge Platonists” (p. 340)]

Rodier, D. F. T.  “Alfred North Whitehead: Between Platonism and Neoplatonism.” In Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought, ed. R. Blaine Harris (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002): 183-204.

_____.  “The Problem of Ordered Chaos in Whitehead and Plotinus.”  In The Siqnificance of Neoplatonism, ed. R. Baine Harris. [???]

Stokes, Walter E.  “Recent Interpretations of Whitehead’s Creativity.”  Modern Schoolman 39 (1962): 309-333. [Notes that Creativity is frequently related to Platonism]

Sweeney, Leo.  “Foreign Books on Greek Philosophers: Socrates and Plato.”  The Modern Schoolman 50 (Nov. 1972)): 76-86.  [abstract]

_____.  “More Books on Plato.”  The Modern Schoolman  47 (Jan. 1970): 225-237.  [abstract]

Wattles, Jeffrey. "Teleology Past and Present," Zygon 41, no 2 (June 2006): 445-464. [abstract]

Woods, Charles G.  “No-Thing or nothing: Mysticism and Neoplatonism in Neville’s Conception of God.” In Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought, ed. R. Blaine Harris (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002): 383-401.