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Volume 7 (1977)

  • Number 2, Summer 1977
    • Immediate and Mediate Memory by Milic Capek

      • Dr. Capek explains the distinction between immediate memory of earlier portions of the specious present and memory of the present. The totality of the past is present, not as a homogeneous bloc, but in the form of qualitative continuum of different degrees of vividness.

    • Metaphysical Principles and the Category of the Ultimate by Archie Graham

      • Whitehead outlines twenty-seven items in his Categories of the Ultimate. Dr. Graham declares the ultimacy of three of these: The ‘one’ (the ontological principle), the ‘many’ (the principle of relativity), and ‘creativity’ (the principle of process).

    • The LSD Experience: A Whiteheadian Interpretation by Leonard Gibson

      • Is LSD a drug inducing psychotic alterations of behavior and personality similar to insanity, or is it an instrument of enlightenment that creates an understanding of the mystical experiences it produces?

    • The Structure of the Free Act in Bergson by Thomas H. Lutzow

      • The author reconstructs and explains the necessary conditions of individual free acts treated by Henri Bergson. Bergson's initial acceptance of the fact of freedom finally includes the entirety of physical and psychic reality as its precondition.

  • Number 3, Fall 1977
    • Bell’s Theorem and Stapp’s Revised View of Space-Time by Charles Hartshorne

      • Physicists now say what Whitehead said rather long ago: that nature consists, in the last analysis, of "events, not things." Physicists as such can hardly be expected to see also that causal inheritance is prehensive.

    • Hartshorne on Actuality by Eugene H. Peters

      • Hartshorne makes the possible-actual distinction by insisting that the possible lacks the definiteness of the actual; possibility is essentially indefinite and determinable. Hence, actualization is the becoming (or incoming) of new definiteness. But Peters makes a clear distinction between facts and events, a distinction between definiteness (definite truth) and concrete entities themselves.

    • Lockeian Roots of the Ontological Principle by Juliana Geran Pilon

      • Whitehead specifically directs his readers to Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, and Hume for early glimpses of his own philosophy, especially in connection with the ontological principle. The author analyzes Locke’s concept of power by examining the contexts in which that term is used in Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, thus shedding light on problems common to both Whitehead and Locke.

    • Quantum Mechanics, Local Causality, and Process Philosophy by Henry Pierce Stapp

      • The author deals with Whitehead’s proposed theory of reality that provides a natural ontological basis for quantum theory. The basic elements of his theory are events that actualize, or bring into existence, certain definite relationships from among a realm of possibilities or potentialities inhering in the set of prior events.

    • Space as Neither Vacuum nor Plenum by Robert S. Brumbaugh

      • Space is symmetrical in its mathematical, abstract form: -- isotropic, static, one-modal. But concrete process finds space entangled with acting entities and with time, and in this concrete domain, the symmetries of abstract fields do not exactly match the facts of location.

    • Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty: Commitment as a Context for Comparison by Robert E. Doud

      • Whitehead’s notion of immanence needs to be more fully explicated if it is to be applied to social and moral questions. This can be accomplished if it is brought into dialogue with Merleau-Ponty’s notion of sedimentation.