Process Thought, Purpose, and Teleology

Agar, W. E.  “The Concept of Purpose in Biology.”  The Quarterly Review of Biology 13 (1938): 255-73.

Anonymous.  “Does Evolution Have a Purpose?”  Manas 40:13 (April 1, 1987): 4,8.  (this article is not in the archives, April 2010)

Beardslee, William A.  Review:  Charles Birch, A Purpose for Everything.  Creative Transformation 1:2 (Fall 1991): 10-11.

Birch, L. Charles.  “A Biological Basis for Human Purpose.”  Zygon 8 (1973): 244-60.

_____.  “Chance, Purpose, and Darwinism.”  In The Philosophy Of Charles Hartshorne, ed., Lewis E. Hahn.  LaSalle, IL: Open Court Press, 1991, pp. 51-63.  [Library of Living Philosophers, Volume XX]

_____.  “Chance and Purpose in Evolution.”  Church and Society [“Report and Background Papers Meeting of the Working Group.”  World Council of Churches, Glion Switzerland, Sept. 1987], pp. 60-72.

_____.  “Chance and Purpose in Human Life.”  (unpubl.)

_____.  “Chance and Purpose in Nature.”  (unpubl.)

_____.  “Chance, Necessity and Purpose.”  In Studies in the Philosophy of Biology, eds., F. Ayala and T. Dobzhansky.  New York: Macmillan Co., 1974, pp. 225-239. [abstract available]

_____.  A Purpose for Everything: Religion in a Postmodern Worldview. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1990.

_____.  “Purpose in the Universe: A Search for Wholeness.”  Zygon 6 (1971): 4-27.

_____, and John B. Cobb, Jr.  “Enter Purpose.”  In The Liberation of Life.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. 56-59.

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

Brown, Delwin.  “Process Philosophy and the Question of Life’s Meaning.” Religious Studies 7 (1971):  13-29.

_____.  To Set at Liberty: Christian Faith and Human Freedom.  Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1981.  [abstract]

Burgers, J. M.  “Causality and Anticipation.”  Science 189 (1975): 194-98.

Cauthen, Kenneth.  “Process and Purpose: Toward a Philosophy of Life.”  Zygon 3 (1968): 183-204.

_____.  Review:  Charles Birch, A Purpose for Everything.  Zygon 27:3 (September 1992): 358-60.

Coolidge, Mary L.  “Purposiveness Without Purpose in a New Context.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 4 (1943-44): 85-93.

Gamwell, Franklin I.  “Theistic Theology.”  In The Divine Good.  San Francisco: Harper, 1990, pp. 155-184.

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]

Hartshorne, Charles.  “God and the Meaning of Life.”  In On Nature, ed., Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984), 154-68.

Haught, John F.  The Cosmic Adventure: Science, Religion, and the Quest for Purpose.  New York: Paulist Press, 1984.

_____.  “Cosmic Purpose and Human Existence Today.”  Life and the Universe: Scientific and Religious Viewpoints (Tokyo: Yoko Civilization Research Institute, 2001): 37-47.

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

_____. "Purpose and Evolution: Lynn Margulis, Science and Theology." (unpub.)[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)]

Koutroufinis, Spyridon. "Reintroducing Teleology in Scientific Explanation: A Whiteheadian Account of the Ontogeny of Organisms." [A paper presented in the seminar of The Center for Process Studies, Claremont, CA (June 17th, 2008)]: 1-17.

Kuntz, Paul Grimley. "Santayana and Lotze." Southern Journal of Philosophy 10 no. 2 (Summer 1972): 115-121.

Laszlo, Ervin.  “The Purpose of Mankind.” Zygon 8, nos. 3-4 (September-December 1973): 310-24.

Lillie, Ralph S.  General Biology And Philosophy Of Organism.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1945.

Mays, Wolfe.  The Philosophy of Whitehead.  New York: Macmillan Co., 1959.  [Available at Honnold and School of Theology at Claremont libraries.]

McTernan, Vaughan.  “Intersections of Process and Pragmatism in Dynamic Constructions of God.”  American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 26, no. 1&2 (January-May, 2005):  146-159. [abstract]

Miller, David L.  “Purpose, Design and Physical Relativity.”  Philosophy Of Science 3 (1936): 267-85.

_____.  “Whitehead’s Extensive Continuum.”  Philosophy of Science 13 (1946): 144-49.

Overman, Richard H.  Evolution and the Christian Doctrine of Creation.  Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1967.

Sagan, Dorion, "Purpose, Process, Symbiosis, and Intelligence: Complex Evolutions' Natural Roots in Energy Flow." (unpub.) [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)]

Smith, John E.  “Purpose in American Philosophy.”  International Philosophical Quarterly 1 (1961): 390-406.

Soontiens, F.J.K.  “Evolution and Finality: A Historical and Philosophical Analysis of an Alienated Relationship.”  Ph.D. Dis, [???].

_____.  “Evolution:  Teleology or Chance?”  Journal for General Philosophy of Science 22 (1991): 133-41.

Stafford, William T.  “Teleology and Purpose in Recent Anglo-American Philosophy.”  Ph.D. Dis., University of Southern California, 1964.  [C. L. Morgan, J. C. Smuts, R. W. Sellars]

Thorpe, W.H.  Purpose in a World of Chance: A Biologist’s View. [???]

Tyler, Leona E.  "Comment Upon the Teleological Papers."  The Journal of Mind and Behavior 8 (Spring 1987): 245-7.  [abstract]

Van Nuys, Kelvin. "The Manifesto of Holism." In  A Holist Pilgrimage. (New York: Philosophical Library, 1981): 395-433.

_____.  Science and Cosmic Purpose.  New York: Philosophical Library, 1966.

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

Wright, John H. S. J. "The Wholeness and the Implicate Order of Human Knwoing." (Conference paper: David Bohm: The Implicate Order: Physics-Theology, April. 1983) The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA.