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Researching with Whitehead: System and Adventure

Conference Proceedings: 6th International Whitehead Conference 2006, Salzburg

Essays in Honor of John B Cobb’s 80th Birthday

Franz Riffert / Hans-Joachim Sander (eds.)

564 pages -- 13,9 × 21,4 cm. Kartoniert
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About this book:

This book explores the wide range of stimulating research possibilities Whitehead's process approach has to offer for different disciplines of thought: philosophy, physics, chemistry, biology and neuroscience, chemistry, psychology, education, technology, ethics and feminism as well as theology.

It will be demonstrated that with the use of Whitehead's relational process approach to reality long standing problems concerning contradictory aims caused by intellectual bifurcations are creatively transformed and - sometimes surprising - new solutions can be elaborated. In different fields of research this book is offering arguments for a fundamental paradigm shift.

In a period of major changes and growing complexity of problems in all fields of life which increasingly require interdisciplinary handling Whitehead's relational process approach gives substantiated hope for finding new pathways into a more human future. The papers of this book were presented at the 6th International Whitehead Conference 2006, Salzburg, by Talis Bachmann, Jason W. Brown, Reginald Cahill, Carol Christ, Ronald Desmet, Joseph Earley, Gernot Falkner, Frederick Ferré, Kurt W. Fischer, Arran Gare, Rom Harré, Cathrine Keller, Ervin Laszlo, Franz Riffert, Hans-Joachim Sander, George Shields, Gudmund Smith, Isabelle Stengers.

Table of Contents

Philosophy

Gare, Arran: Reviving the Radical Enlightenment: Process Philosophy and the Struggle for Democracy

Stengers, Isabelle: Achieving Coherence: The Importance of the 6th Category of Existence

Physics

Cahill, Reginald: Process Physics and Whitehead: The New Science of Space and Time

Ronny, Desmet: Did Whitehead and Einstein actually Meet?

Chemistry

Harré Rom: Structure and Process: Whiteheadian Concepts in Chemistry

Earley Joseph: Process Structural Realism, Instance Ontology, and Societal Order

Biology and Neuro Science

Falkner, Gernot: The Relevance of Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism for a Better Understanding of the Phenomenon of Physiological Adaptation of Microorganisms

Brown, Jason W.: Consciousness: Some Microgenetic Principles

Psychology

Smith, Gudmund: Unraveling Process in the Laboratory

Talis, Bachmann: Representation and Revelation: Microgenesis as Seen from the Perceptual Retouch Theory Perspective

Education

Fischer, Kurt W., Stewart, Jeffrey B. & Stein, Zachary: Process and Skill: Analyzing Dynamic Structures of Development and Learning

Riffert, Franz: Whitehead on Wisdom: Contributions toContemporary Research

Systems Theory and Technology

Laszlo, Ervin: The Concept of Physical Reality: Metaphysical, Theological, and Human Implications

Ferré, Frederick: Testing Technology with Whitehead

Ethics & Feminism

Shields, George: Beyond Enlightened Self-Interest' Revisited: Process Philosophy and the Biology of Altruism

Christ, Carol: We are Nature. Environmental Ethics in a Different Key

Theology

Keller, Cathrine: Truth and Tedium: Whiteheadian Deconstructions

Sander, Hans-Joachim: God – An Adventure of Power. Toplogical Enterprises in Theology