Process News and Eventshttp://ipn.squarespace.com/journal/Process philosophy conferences, seminars, lectures and publication news.en-US2009-11-07T17:18:15ZSquarespace Site Server v5.8.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Conference Proceedings: 6th International Whitehead Conference 2006http://ipn.squarespace.com/journal/2009/3/2/conference-proceedings-6th-international-whitehead-conferenc.htmlPeter Farleigh2009-03-02T10:06:53ZResearching with Whitehead: System and Adventure

Conference Proceedings: 6^th 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
€ 59,– / € [A] 60,70 / SFr 99,50

ISBN 978-3-495-48220-9

Verlag Karl Alber
D-79080 Freiburg i. Br.
Tel. +49(0)761-2717-436
Fax +49(0)761-2717-212
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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

]]>First International Symposium on Process Organization Studieshttp://ipn.squarespace.com/journal/2008/10/21/first-international-symposium-on-process-organization-studie.htmlPeter Farleigh2008-10-21T23:01:11ZConferencesTheme: Sensemaking and Organizing

11-13 June 2009, Pissouri, Cyprus

Download details (pdf)

Conveners:
Tor Hernes, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark & Norwegian School of Management, Norway, tor.hernes@bi.no
Sally Maitlis, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada, maitlis@sauder.ubc.ca
Haridimos Tsoukas, ALBA Graduate Business School, Greece & University of Warwick, UK, pros@alba.edu.gr

Keynote Speakers:
Keith Ansell Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK, author of Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life
Kenneth J. Gergen, Mustin Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College, USA, author of Relational Being: Beyond the Individual and the Community
Kathleen Sutcliffe, Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management and Organizations, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA, co-author of Managing the Unexpected

Submissions

Interested participants must submit to Haridimos Tsoukas (pros@alba.edu.gr) an abstract of no more than 1000 words for their proposed contribution by January 31^st, 2009. The submission must be made via email and it must be a Word attachment. It should contain authors' names, institutional affiliations, email and postal addresses, and indicate the track for which the submission is made (General or Thematic), while the subject matter line of the email should indicate "Process Symposium". Authors will be notified of acceptance or otherwise by February 28^th, 2009. Full papers will be submitted by May 15^th, 2009.

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]]>Conference Announcement: "The Philosophical Basis of Inter-religious Dialogue - Katowice, Poland, May 2008http://ipn.squarespace.com/journal/2007/12/18/conference-announcement-the-philosophical-basis-of-inter-rel.htmlPeter Farleigh2007-12-18T04:08:59ZConferencesThe Whitehead Metaphysical Society Franciscan Seminary OFM in Katowice, The Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow and Institute of Philosophy, University of Silesia in Katowice

are honoured to invite to international scientific conference

THE PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS OF INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

9 – 10th May 2008
in Franciscan Seminary OFM, Katowice, ul. Panewnicka 76, Poland

In the present epoch of tensions between civilisations, challenges being brought by globalisation processes and the necessity of the coexistence of various cultures and traditions, the subject of the conference seems to be particularly significant. Can religions remain isolated islands? Are their claims of being the only source of theological truth justified or should it rather be understood as an effect of interaction between different points of view and common effort of looking for the answers to the questions about God and his relations to the world? What is the role of dialogue? Is it only a politically correct element or maybe something more essential – the basis of reasonable existence and development of religion? Should the direction traced by 20th century's partisans of ecumenical movements be widened in order to embrace also non – Christian religions? What is the orthodoxy and where are its boundaries?

These are some suggested topics that we would like to discuss. The process philosophy creates a convenient and favourable atmosphere for this kind of considerations. All interested in participating in conference are kindly required to send topics of lectures and short abstracts on:

Towarzystwo Metafizyczne im. A. N. Whiteheada, ul. Panewnicka 76, 40-760 Katowice, Poland
Or e-mail: bogrod@interia.pl

The deadline for registration is the 31st March 2008.
Conference fee: 130 PLN / 50 $ / 40 €

Bank Pekao S.A.
Account number: 57 1240 1330 1111 0010 1067 5804

On behalf of organizers
Dr. Miroslaw Patalon
Rev. Dr. Janusz Maczka
Dr. Bogdan Ogrodnik
Fr. Dr. Kleofas W. Grodek OFM

]]>Murray Code, "Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols: Thinking with A.N. Whitehead"http://ipn.squarespace.com/journal/2007/12/18/murray-code-process-reality-and-the-power-of-symbols-thinkin.htmlPeter Farleigh2007-12-18T03:32:40ZPublicationsDescription

Following A.N. Whitehead, this book takes up the principal challenge facing a natural philosopher who wishes to engage with Nature while rescuing both Life and Thought from materialistic approaches which rob them of their 'quicknesses'. Selecting certain insights and intuitions from the writings of Peirce, Coleridge, Deleuze and Nietzsche, the author proffers a remedy for the pervasive nihilism of 'the moderns' which illustrates Deleuze's suggestion that philosophy should be imaged as a dynamic collage that is forever in the making.

Author Biography

MURRAY CODE who taught mathematics at the University of Guelph, Canada, has argued for the importance of A. N. Whitehead's views on logic, mathematics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics in two previous books: Order and Organism: Steps to a Whiteheadian Philosophy of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences (1985); and Myths of Reason: Vagueness, Rationality, and the Lure of Logic (1995).

Table of contents

Science and the Appropriation of Reality * Signs, Symbols and Metaphysical Imaginaries * Minding, Imaging and Symbolizing * A Nearly Comprehensive Naturalism * In Search of a 'True Naturalism' * Putting Life Back into Nature * On Learning Good Sense * Against 'Conceptual Idolatry' * Epilogue: Notes for a Cultural Therapy

From Palgrave Macmillan (link)
Pub date: Aug 2007, 256 pages
US$74.95 - Hardcover (0-230-52740-X)

]]>Young Process Scholar – International Essay Contest – First Call for Papershttp://ipn.squarespace.com/journal/2007/10/8/young-process-scholar-international-essay-contest-first-call.htmlPeter Farleigh2007-10-08T21:41:00ZGeneral News

Please follow this link for details: Young Scholar Prize

]]>Riffert, Franz (ed.) "Perception Reconsidered - The Process Point of View"http://ipn.squarespace.com/journal/2007/7/13/riffert-franz-ed-perception-reconsidered-the-process-point-o.htmlPeter Farleigh2007-07-13T10:19:44ZPublications

The collection of papers of this book discuss Whitehead's bold theory of perception from different angles. According to the major perspectives the book is divided into two major parts: the philosophical and the psychological perspective. The four philosophical papers focus on: the relation between Whitehead's theory of perception and his account of the phases of concrescence, the nature of causal explanations in Whitehead's theory of perception, a comparative study on Kitaro Nishida's philosophy of pure experience and Whitehead's philosophy of perception, and a contrasting account of Whitehead's theory of perception with that of Deleuze. In the five papers of part II of the book ("the psychological perspective"), some basic guidelines for conducting process-oriented psychological experiments on perceptgenesis are given. Then Whitehead's tri-modal theory of perception in the light of microgenetic research results is discussed. A comparison of Whitehead's position of the construction of solid objects with Piaget's account of the constructive development of the 'object permanent' in the young child follows. In the fourth paper James Gibson's early position on perception is compared with Whitehead's account. Finally it is shown that Whitehead's theory of perception may provide a mode of access to nonordinary experiences and an explanation for the emergence of nonordinary states of consciousness.

Contents:

David Roy: The Correlation of the Modes of Perception and the Phases of Concrescence in Whitehead's Cosmology
Randy Ramal: Creating Meaning: Whitehead on Perception, Language, and Causal Explanation
Tokiyuki Nobuhara: A Whiteheadian Reinterpretation of Nishida's Philosophy of Pure Experience: With the Concept of Symbolic Reference as Guide
Keith Robinson: The 'View from Nowhere': Deleuze, Whitehead and the Process Point of View of Perception
Gudmund Smith: A Vademecum for Experimental Process Research
Franz Riffert: Whitehead's Theory of Perception in the Light of Microgenetic Research
Franz Riffert: Whitehead and Piaget on the Construction of Permanent Objects
Michael Katzko: A Process Interpretation of Gibson's Theories of Perception
John Buchanan: The Depths of Perception.

Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. 233 pp., num.
fig. and tables, 2 col. fig.
ISBN 978-3-631-53546-2 / US-ISBN 978-0-8204-7684-1 pb.

Order online: http://www.peterlang.com/
SFR 62.00 / €* 42.50 / €** 43.70 / € 39.70 / £ 25.80 / US-$ 51.95

]]>Whitehead Research Projecthttp://ipn.squarespace.com/journal/2007/6/6/whitehead-research-project.htmlPeter Farleigh2007-06-06T22:33:38ZGeneral NewsThe Whitehead Research Project (WRP) is dedicated to the research of, and scholarship on, the texts, philosophy and life of Alfred North Whitehead. It explores and analyzes the relevance of Whitehead’s thought in dialogue with contemporary philosophies in order to unfold his philosophy of organism and its consequences for our time and in relation to emerging philosophical thought. Of particular interest is the investigation into the emergence of Whitehead’s philosophy in the context of British and American pragmatism, its complicated relation to Continental philosophy and the analytic tradition, the relevance of his thought in the discourse of post-modern paradigms of deconstruction and post-structuralism, and its creative impulse for developing process philosophies. Additionally, following Whitehead’s own inclination to reach beyond European modes of thought, WRP extends its horizon of research by fostering similar conversations with strains of Indian and East Asian thought while exhibiting de facto mutual influence – e.g., with the Kyoto School of Buddhist philosophy.

In encouraging a fresh and bold approach towards the ever-expanding possibility suggested by Whitehead’s written material, both published and unpublished, WRP is committed to the continuing adventures of his ideas across disciplines. In doing so, the mission of WRP follows Whitehead’s impulse to understand the distinct endeavor of philosophy "to conceive the infinite variety of specific instances which rest unrealized in the womb of nature” (Process and Reality, 17) and “to maintain an active novelty of fundamental ideas illuminating the social system.” (Modes of Thought, 174) In its broader aim to understand and further civilization, philosophy “is seeking, amid the dim recesses of [our] ape-like consciousness and beyond the reach of dictionary language, for the premises implicit in all reasoning.” This endeavour is “dangerous, easily perverted. So is all Adventure; but Adventure belongs to the essence of civilization.” (Adventures of Ideas, 295)

http://www.whiteheadresearch.org

The first event of the WRP will be a conference :

"Event & Decision: Ontology and Politics in Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead."

Details available at http://whiteheadresearch.org/event-and-decision/

]]>Philosophical Counseling Center Openshttp://ipn.squarespace.com/journal/2007/4/18/philosophical-counseling-center-opens.htmlPeter Farleigh2007-04-18T11:34:15ZGeneral NewsMichel Weber of the Centre for Philosophical Practice has founded a new program of "Philosophical Counseling" based on Western Philosophy in general, and Whitehead's thought in particular.
From the brochure:

"The Centre welcomes individuals in their quest for meaning, be it global or local. Diagrammatically, this quest can present itself as an existential crisis or as a more limited problem—whatever its nature (depression, behavioural, mourning, ethical legitimation of a decision…)"

Informational Brochure (PDF)