Applied process thought I, Initial explorations in theory and research / Mark Dibben & Thomas Kelly (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dibben, Mark.

Kelly, Thomas.

Series:

Process Thought

Process thought ; v. 16

Process Thought ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Process philosophy.

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Concentrating mainly on the process philosophy developed by Alfred North Whitehead, this series of essays brings together some of the newest developments in the application of process thinking to the physical and social sciences. These essays, by established scholars in the field, demonstrate how a wider and deeper understanding of the world can be obtained using process philosophical concepts, how the distortions and blockages inevitably inherent in substantivist talk can be set aside, and how new and fertile lines of research in the sciences can be opened as a result.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Foreword / Greene, Herman

Preface / Gunter, Pete A.Y.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: What is Applied Process Thought? / Dibben, Mark R. / Kelly, Thomas A.F.

I. Unifying Process Philosophy: Secular Metaphysics and Fragmentary Influences / McLaren, Glenn

II. Unity Through Divergence / Stengers, Isabelle

III. Mediating the Divide: Process Philosophy between the Two Cultures / Robinson, Keith

IV. From Grown Organism to Organic Growth / Weber, Michel

V. A Whiteheadian Critical Theory / Moore, Duston

VI. A Whiteheadian Perspective on Nature and Freedom / Herstein, Gary

VII. A Whiteheadian Metaphysics of Light / Ogrodnik, Bogdan

VIII. Water as a Metaphoric Model in Process Thought / Engberts, Jan B.F.N.

IX. Explaining the Processual Behaviour of a Cell / Delafield-Butt, Jonathan T.

X. Enzymes as Ecosystems: A Panexperientialist Account of Biocatalytic Chemical Transformations / Stein, Ross L.

XI. The Embodied Mind and Inter-Subjectivity: Reflections on Autism / Harpur, John

XII. Social Science Contributions to the Love-And-Science Symbiosis / Oord, Thomas Jay

XIII. Understanding Organizations as Whiteheadian Societies / Dibben, Mark R.

XIV. Facts and Events: Whiteheadian Philosophy of History / Desmond, William

XV. Process Philosophy and Ecological Ethics / Gare, Arran

Table of Contents

Process Thought

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-938793-75-9

3-11-032840-2

OCLC:

851971920