Process Thought and the Self

Allan, George. “Needs, Norms, and Structure of Selfhood.” (unpubl.) [Conf. Paper “Process and Praxis I” May 1977]

Basile, Pierfrancesco.  “Self and World: The Radical Empiricism of Hume, Bradley, and James.” Bradley Studies 9, no. 2 (2003): 93-100.

Bennett, John B. “Whitehead and Personal Identity.” Thomist 37 (July 1973): 510-521. [abstract]

_____. “A Whiteheadian Theory of the Agent Self.” Philosophy Today 17 (Winter 1973): 337-342. [abstract]

Belaief, Lynne. “Whitehead and Private-Interest Theories.”  Ethics  76 (Jul. 1966): 277-286. [abstract]

Bertocci, Peter A. “Hartshorne on Personal Identity: A Personalistic Critique.” Process Studies 2:3 (Fall 1972): 216-21.

Bracken, Joseph A., S.J. “Continuity Amid Discontinuity: A Neo-Whiteheadian Understanding of the Self.” Process Studies 31, no.2 (Fall-Winter 2002): 115-124.

Brizee, Robert. “Process Relational Psychotherapy: A Creative Process of Transforming Relationships.” (Unpublished Conference Paper, 1992) [self as committee members]

Brown, Jason W. Mind and Nature: Essays on Time and Subjectivity.  London and Philadelphia: Whurr Publishers, 2000. [abstract]

Browning, D. “Whitehead's Theory of Human Agency.” Dialogue 2 (1963-64): 424-41. [Agency, Ethics, Self]

Capek, Milic. “The Reappearance of the Self in the Last Philosophy of William James.” Philosophical Review 62, no.4 (Oct 1953): 526-44.

Chapman, G. Clarke. “On Being Human: Moltmann’s Anthropology of Hope.” The Asbury Theological Journal 55, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 69-84.

Clayton, Philip. “Neuroscience, the Person, and God: An Emergentist Account.” Zygon 35, no.3 (Sept. 2000): 613- 652.

Cloots, Andrי. “Towards  a Dynamic Conception of Man.” Jeevadhara 10, no.55 (Jan. – Feb. 1980): 17-34.

Cobb, John B., Jr."Comments on Prof. Clark's 'The Self as the source of Meaning in Metaphysics'." unpublished

_____.“The Ego.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 4 (1984): 73-83.

Cook, Francis. “The Authentic Self in Whitehead and Nishida.” (unpubl.)

Collier, John.  "Self-organization, Individuation and Identity."  Revue internationale de philosophie 58 (April 2004): 151-172.

Corrington, Robert S. Nature's Self: Our Journey From Origin to Spirit. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996. [abstract]

Dale, Luther Paul. “Whitehead and Physiological Psychology: A Prospectus.” (Unpubl.) [abstract]

Damasio, Antonio.  The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. San Diego, New York, London: A Harvest Book, 1999. [abstract]

Davis, Keith. “Review: John Irving, A Son of the Circus.” Creative Transformation 4, no.3 (Spring 1995) 22.

Dombrowski, Daniel. “Taking the World Soul Seriously.” The Modern Schoolman 49 (November 1991): 33-57.

Edge, Hoyt L. A Constructive Postmodern Perspective on Self and Community;  From Atomism to Holism. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1994.

Edwards, Rem B. “The Human Self: An Actual Entity or a Society?” Process Studies 5, no.3 (Fall 1975): 195-203.

Faber, Roland. “Persons ein am Ort der Leere.” Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 44 (2002): 189-198. [abstract]

Fancher, Robert. “Of Time, the Self, and Rem Edwards.” Process Studies 7, no.1 (Spring 1977): 40-3.

Fang, Thome H. "The World and the Individual in Chinese Metaphysics." Philosophy East and West 14, no. 2 (July 1964): 101-130.

Fisher, David. “How Much, If Any?  Whitehead, Hillman, and the Disappearance of the Self.” (unpubl.)

Ford, L. S. “The Origin of Subjectivity.” The Modern Schoolman 62 (May 1985): 265-76. [abstract]

_____. “Physical Purpose and the Origination of the Subjective Aim.” Process Studies 33, no.1 (Spring-Summer 2004): 71-79.

_____. “Whitehead on Subjective Agency: A Response to Edward Pols.” The Modern  Schoolman  49 (Jan. 1972): 151-152. [abstract]

Frick, Ivan E. “A Study of the Objective and Subjective Aspects of Selfhood in the Thought of A. N. Whitehead.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Columbia University, 1959.

Gier, Nicholas and Johnson Petta. “Hebrew and Buddhist Selves: A Constructive Postmodern Study.” Asian Philosophy 17, no. 1 (March 2007): 47-64. [abstract] 

Goldstein, Valerie. “Personal Identity, Self-Transcendence, and Individual Uniqueness: A Whiteheadian Interpretation.” [Self, Personhood, Transcendence, Individuality, SSPP]

Hartshorne, Charles. “The Buddhist-Whiteheadian View of the Self and the Religious Traditions.” Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress for the History of Religions (Tokyo and Kyoto, 1958. Tokyo: Maruzen, 1960), 298-302.

_____. “Personal Identity from A to Z.” Process Studies 2:3 (Fall 1972): 209-215.

Haught, John F. “Behind the Veil: Evolutionary Naturalism and the Question of Immortality” In World without End: Christian Eschatology from a Process Perspective. Ed. Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.  (Grand Rapids & Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005), 150-176.

Inada, Kenneth K. “Problematics of the Buddhist Nature of Self.”  Philosophy East and West 29 (Apr. 1979): 141-58. [abstract]

Jordan, James Augustus, Jr. “A Concept of Self and Value From Whitehead and its Implications for Education.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Emory University, 1958.

Kamal, Muhammad. "The Self and the Other in Sufi Thought." Religion East & West 6 (October 2006):21-32. [abstract]

Keating, Jerome F.  “Personal Identity in Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Alfred North Whitehead.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Syracuse University, 1972. [North American Philosophers, Self]

Keenaghan, Eric Christian. “Making flesh word: Baroque modernisms and pragmatist refigurations of embodied masculinities in twentieth-century United States and Cuban literatures.” PhD Diss., Temple University, 2003.

Keller, Catherine. From a Broken Web: Sexism, Separation, and Self. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. [abstract]

Kirkpatrick, Frank G. “Process or Agent: Models for Self and God.” Thought, Fordham University Quarterly 48, 188 (1973): 33-60. [Agency, God Concepts, Self]

Koothottil, Abraham. “Life ‘After’ Death: Individual Survival or Universal Communion?” Jeevadhara 10, no.55 (Jan. – Feb. 1980): 63-87.

Kopf, Gereon. "Temporality and Personal Identity in the Thought of Nishida Kitaro." Philosophy East and West 52, no. 2 (April 2002): 224-245. [abstract]

Koutroufinis, Spyridon. "Über das Prozeß- und Kreativitäts-Verständnis in der Berliner Schule für Dynamische Psychiatrie - eine prozeßphilosophische Betrachtung" ("On the Understanding of Process and Creativity in the Berlin School for Dynamic Psychiatry – a Process Philosophical Reflection"). Dynamische Psychiatrie 35, no. 194-105 (2002): 563-605. [abstract] 

Lee, Richard T. “Whitehead’s Theory of the Self.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale Univ., 1962.

Levin, Jerome D. Theories of the Self. Washington, D.C.: Taylor Francis, 1992. [abstract]

Limper, Peter. “Action, Responsibility, and the Problem of Personal Identity.” (unpubl.)  [abstract]

Lyon, K. Brynolf. “Companions on the Way: Creating and Discovering the Congregational Subject.” Encounter 63 no.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2002): 147-168.

McDaniel, Jay B. “An Interpretive Review of Kitaro Nishida’s Fundamental Problems of Philosophy.” (Unpubl.) [abstract]

_____. “Zen and the Self.” Process Studies 10, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1980): 110-19.

Macy, Joanna. “Self as Process.” Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), 107-16.

Maddox, Marty Miller. Review of Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments, by Ted Peters, Robert John Russell, and Michael Welker. Theology and Science 1, no.2 (October 2003): 250-252.

Mead, George Herbert. The Philosophy of the Present, ed. by Arthur E. Murphy. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1959. [abstract]

Mesle, C. Robert. “What Shall We Say to the Torturer?  Moral Realism, Conscience, and Human Nature.” American Journal Theology and Philosophy 26, no. 1&2 (January-May, 2005): 129-145.

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

Mills, Jon and Janusz A. Polanowski. The Ontology of Prejudice. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984. [abstract]

Moore, Mary Elizabeth Mullino. “Imagination at the Center: Identity on the Margins.”  Process Studies 34, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2005): 192-210. 

Moreland, J. P. “An Enduring Self: The Achilles Heel of Process Philosophy.” Process Studies 17, no.3 (Fall 1988): 193-99. [abstract]

Muray, Leslie A. “The Process Understanding of the Self.” in An Introduction to the Process Understanding of Science, Society, and the Self: A Philosophy for Modern Humanity. (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988), 17-29.

Murphy, Michael. “The Life We are Given.” An Esalen Conference Paper. [Transpersonal and Process Thought Conference: March 17-22, 1996]. Also published in The Life We Are Given: A Long-Term Program for Realizing the Potential of Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul. ed. Leonard, George and Michael Murphy (New York: Putnam Books, 1995): xi-xvi; 3-18; 169-83.

Neale, Philip W. “The Self: Whitehead, Bradley, and Hume in the Light of Their Doctrines of Internal and External Relations.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Vanderbilt Univ., 1975.

Nobuhara, Tokiyuki. “A Response to Francis Cook’s Paper on ‘The Authentic Self in Whitehead and Nishida’.” (unpubl.)

Odin, Steve. “Discontinuous Continuity as the Foundation of Authentic Selfhood in Nishida Kitaro and A. N. Whitehead.” (unpubl.)

_____. The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism.  Suny Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought.  ed. David R. Griffin.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. [abstract]

_____. "The Social Self in Japanese Philosophy and American Pragmatism: A Comparative Study of Watsuji Tetsur and George Herbert Mead." Philosophy East & West 42, no. 3 (July 1992): 475-501.

O'Dwyer, Shaun.  "The Metaphysics of Existence Rehabilitated." Tranactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40, no. 4 (Fall 2004): 711-730.

O' Hara, M. L., ed. Substances and Things: Aristotle's Doctrine of Physical Substance in Recent Essays. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982.

Oliver, Harold H. A Relational Metaphysic. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981. [abstract]

_____. “The Relational Self.” Selves, People and Persons: What Does it Mean to be a Person?  Ed., Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992), 37-51.

Pittenger, W. Norman. “Towards an Understanding of the Self.” Contemporary Studies in Philosophical Idealism, eds. John Howie and Thomas O. Buford (Cape Cod, MA: Claude Stark, 1975),  161-72.

Pols, Edward. “Human Agents as Fundamental Entities.” (Unpubl.) [abstract]

Quiring, John. “The Two-Self Concept: East and West.” Journal of Asian and Asian American Theology 1, no.1 (Summer 1996): 63-76.

Rasor, Paul. “Intersubjective Communication and the Self in Wieman and Habermas.” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 21, no.3 (September 2000): 269-87. [Journal issue is available at the Center’s Library].

Rathbun, Harry J. Creative Initiative: Guide to Fulfillment. Palo Alto, CA: Creative Initiative Foundation, 1976.

Roth, Robert J. Ed. Person and Community: A Philosophical Exploration. NY: Fordham Univ Pr, 1975. [abstract]

Roy, David. “The Sacred in Our Soul: A Siren for Change, A Cradle of Love.” An Esalen Institute Conference Paper [Transpersonal and Process Thought Conference: March 17-22, 1996]. (Unpubl.: see also Process Thought, Psychology, and Psychotherapy, the Esalen Conference Papers).

Russel, Helene. “Solitude: A Theological Dialogue. Soren Kierkegaard and Process Studies.” (unpubl.) May 2001.

Sarkar, Anil K. “Personal Identity: In Buddhist and Whiteheadian Thought (An Exercise with an Intercultural Experience).” Darshana International 32, no.2 (Apr. 1992): 17-23. [abstract]

Sawa, Russell J.  "Methods and Systematic Reflections."  Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding 24, no. 4 (December 2001): 305-323.

Verhoeven, Martin. "Buddhist Ideas about No-Self and the Person." Religion East & West 6 (Oct. 2006): 33-51. [abstract]

Shaida S.A.  "Iqbal's Concept of Khudi." Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 20 (Dec. 2003): 147-157.

Sheridan, James F. Psyche: Lectures on Psychology and Philosophy. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1979. [abstract]

Slivinski, Dennis Leo. “Personal Identity Within the Context of Whitehead’s Metaphysics.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Vanderbilt University, 1974.

Slusser, Gerald. “Jung and Whitehead on the Self and the Divine: The Necessity for Symbol and Myth.”In Archetypal Process: Self and Divine in Whitehead, Jung, and Hillman, ed. David Ray Griffin. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1989.

Smith, Olav Bryant. Myths of the Self: Narrative Identity and Postmodern Metaphysics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. [abstract]

Smith, V. H. “The Nature and Function of the Self as Developed in the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.” Educational Theory 8, no.2 (1958): 109-113.

Soul. BBC 3 part Documentary Videocassette BL 240.2. [David Griffin Interviewed in Pt. 1, “Soul of the Universe.”]

Sponheim, Paul R. “The Beginning and Ending (and Beginning … ) of the Self.” Dialog 38 no.3 (Summer 1999): 167-81.

Stupar, Lisa. “Implications of Bracken’s Process Model of the Trinity for Contemporary Feminist Theology.” Horizons 27, no.2 (2000): 256-275.

Tong, Lik Kuen. "The Art of Appropriation: Towards a Field-Being Conception of Philosophy." The International Journal for Field-Being 1, no. 1 (2001).

Trelstad, Marit. “Relationality Plus Individuality: The Value of Creative Self Agency.” Dialog 38, no.3 (Summer 1999): 193-98.

Van der Veken, Jan. “Is Man the ‘Result’ of Evolution?” Jeevadhara 10, no.55 (Jan. – Feb. 1980): 6-16.

Vaughan, Frances. “Shadows of the Sacred: the Power of Imaginal Worlds.” An Esalen Conference Paper. [Transpersonal and Process Thought Conference: March 17-22, 1996]. Published in Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Wheaton: Quest Books, 1995): 3-7. See also Process Thought, Psychology, and Psychotherapy: the Esalen Conference Papers.

_____. “Awakening Soul: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science.” Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Wheaton: Quest Books, 1995): 108-37.

Ward, Andrew. "Hume on Moral Responsibility for Past Actions." The Modern Schoolman 84, no. 1 (November 2006): 49-70.

Wolfe, Sinnamon. "Sung Sohn: A Pedagogy of 'Acology'". Process Perspectives: Newsmagazine of the Center for Process Studies 30, no. 1 (Summer 2007): 10. 

Wood, Forrest, Jr. “A Whiteheadian Concept of the Self.” Whiteheadian Thought as a Basis of Philosophy of Religion (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986), 55-64. [abstract]

Woodbridge, Barry.  Whitehead and Pastoral Counseling: An Interview with Gordon Jackson.

Yanovitch, John Joseph. “The Morphogenetic Basis of the Person in the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Fordham University, 1976.

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]

Yu, David C.  "The Conceptions of Self in Whitehead and Chu Hsi" in Journal of Chinese Philosophy: 1953-1973. [abstract]

Zohar, Danah. The Quantum Self: Human Nature and Consciousness Defined by the New Physics. New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1990. [abstract]