Process Thought and Systems Theory

Bertalanffy, Ludwig von.  General Systems Theory:  Foundations, Development, Applications.  New York:  George Braziller, 1968.

Bracken, Joseph A.  “The Field Metaphor in Ervin Laszlo’s Philosophy and in Neo-Whiteheadian Metaphysics.”  Process Studies 33, no.2 (Fall-Winter 2004): 303-313.

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

Carvallo, M. E.  “A Brief Prolegomenon to the Principle of Metaphoricity.”  Nature, Cognition, and System,  vol 2.  Ed. M. E. Carvallo.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Arcademic Publishers, 1992, 325-75.

Crosby, Donald A. “Review: The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form, by George Allan.”  In Process Studies 31, no.1 (2002): 175-177.

Graves, Mark. "Emergence of Transcendental Norms in Human Systems." Zygon 44, no. 3 (September 2009): 501-531. [abstract] [Aesthetics, Science and Religion, Emergence, Systems]

Gray, William and Nicholas D. Rizzo, ed.  Unity Through Diversity: A Festschrift for Ludwig von Bertalanffy.  New York:  Gordon and Breach, 1973.

Hammond, Deobrah Ruth.  "Toward a Science of Synthesis: the Heritage of General Systems Theory."  Ph.D. Dissertation.  University of California at Berkeley, 1997.

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.

Laszlo, Ervin. Essential Society: An Ontological Reconstruction.  The Hague:  Martinus Nijhoff, 1963, pp. 3, 36, 45, 152.

_____.  Introduction to Systems Philosophy:  Toward a New Paradigm.  New York:  Gordon and Breach, 1992.

_____.  Introduction to Systems Philosophy:  Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1972. [abstract]

_____.  La Metaphysique de Whitehead. The Hague:  Martinus Nijhoff, 1970.

_____.  The Relevance of General Systems Theory.  New York:  George Braziller, 1972.

_____.  The Systems View of the World:  The Natural Philosophy of the New Development of the Sciences.  New York:  George Braziller, 1972.

Macy, Joanna. Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. [abstract]

_____. "Systems Philosophy as a Hermeneutic for Buddhist Teachings." Philosophy East and West 26, no. 1 (January 1976): 21-32.

Moore, Robert L.  “Process Philosophy and General Systems Theory:  A Review Article.” Process Studies 4 (1974):  291-99.

Sherburne, Donald W.  “Whitehead and Dewey on Experience and System.”  Frontiers of American Philosophy, Vol. 1.  eds. Robert W. Burch and Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  (College Station:  Texas A&M University Press, 1992), 95-101. [North American Philosophers, Systems]

Simons, Peter.  “Metaphysical Systematics: A Lesson From Whitehead.” Erkenntnis 48 (1998): 377-393. [abstract]

The Worldviews Group. Perspectives on the World: An Interdisciplinary Reflection. Brussels: VUB Press, 1994. [abstract]