"François Beets, Michel Dupuis et Michel Weber (éditeurs), La science et le monde moderne d’Alfred North Whitehead — Alfred North Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World. Actes des Journées d’étude internationales tenues à l’Université catholique de Louvain, les 30-31 mai et 1 juin 2003 — Proceedings of the Second International “Chromatiques whiteheadiennes” Conference. Publiés avec le concours du FNRS et de la Communauté française de Belgique, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, ontos verlag, Chromatiques whiteheadiennes V, 2006. (445 p. ; ISBN 3-938793-07-4 ; 98 €) Les deuxièmes journées « Chromatiques » furent dévolues exclusivement à l'exégèse et à la contextualisation de l'ouvrage Science and the Modern World (1925). Construites autour de treize communications scientifiques, soit une par chapitre, elles se fixèrent pour objectif, d’une part, d'identifier l'apport spécifique de chaque chapitre à la lettre whiteheadienne — c'est-à-dire de mettre en perspective ses catégories principales à l'aide d'une analyse intrinséciste — et, d’autre part, de rendre manifeste sa contribution à l'histoire de la philosophie. The second international « Chromatiques whiteheadiennes » conference was devoted exclusively to the exegesis and contextualization of Whitehead's Science and the Modern World (1925). In order to elucidate the meaning and significance of this epoch-making work, the Proceedings are designed to form a « companion » volume. With one paper devoted to each of its thirteen chapters, the Proceedings aim, on the one hand, to identify the specific contribution of each chapter to Whitehead’s own research program —that is to say, to put its categories into perspective by means of an internal analysis— and, on the other hand, to identify its global impact in the history of ideas. "

« A systemic reading of Whitehead's organic philosophy », Process Studies, 49/1, 2020, pp. 115-142. The aim of this article is to explore the importance of biological and social networks in Whitehead's philosophy. This exploration will involve a consideration of pluridisciplinarity in Whitehead, including a consideration of the relationship between scientific understanding and philosophical thinking, the question of method in Whitehead's thought, and the crucial distinctions between mechanism and organicism and between nature lifeless and nature alive.

2017

"The present Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought is the product of three years of collective labor. Gathering 113 entries written by 101 internationally renowned experts in their fields, it aims at canvassing the current state of knowledge in Whiteheadian scholarship and at identifying promising directions for future investigations through (internal) cross-elucidation and (external) interdisciplinary development. There is indeed an urgent need to interpret Whitehead secundum Whitehead and to read him from the vantage point of interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research. As Felix Frankfurter claimed in his tribute to the philosopher some sixty years ago, the “need for breaking down sterilizing departmentalization has been widely felt. Unfortunately, however, a too frequent way of doing it has been, wittily but not too unfairly, described as the cross-sterilization of the social sciences.”1 This misplaced concreteness is precisely what we seek to avoid here."

"Ronny Desmet & Michel Weber (edited by), Whitehead. The Algebra of Metaphysics. Applied Process Metaphysics Summer Institute Memorandum, Louvain-la-Neuve, Les Éditions Chromatika, 2010. (978-2-930517-08-7 ; 220 p. ; 40 €) Drawing upon the major Harvard works —Science and the Modern World (1925), Process and Reality (1929) and Adventures of Ideas (1933)—, the essays gathered here on the occasion of the creation of the Applied Process Metaphysics Summer Institute, seek, first, to introduce into Whitehead’s thought by clarifying what is at stake in his philosophy and by providing a synoptic vision of his key categories in light of their historical development and, second, to foster a creative dialogue among all participants. These essays give the opportunity to travel through most aspects of Whitehead’s legacy: anthropology, ecology, education, epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, political theory and relativity physics. " [Introduction to Whitehead ; Introduction to Process and Reality]

2007

This article focuses on the image of the universe which supports Rogers' notion of the formative tendency as a foundation of the person-centered approach. Rogers locates his thinking within the paradigm of the new science and lists a number of key figures who support his notion of an organic, evolving universe. Among them is the mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. We may speculate that Rogers was introduced to Whitehead's process philosophy during his tenure at the University of Chicago, which was at the time a major center for Whitehead's thinking. Whether or not Rogers was directly influenced by Whitehead scholars, his psychology is essentially a process psychology, and his reflections on therapy in A Way of Being (1980) make most sense when viewed in the context of Whitehead's process view of cosmology.Dieser Artikel nimmt das Bild des Universums zum Thema, welches Rogers' Idee von der formativen Tendenz als Grundlage für den Personzentrierten Ansatz stützt. Rogers lokalisiert sein Denken innerhalb des Paradigmas der Neuen Wissenschaft und zählt eine Reihe von Schlüsselfiguren auf, die seine Idee eines organischen, sich entwickelnden Universums stützen. Eine von diesen ist der Mathematiker und Philosoph Alfred North Whitehead. Wir dürfen annehmen, dass Rogers dessen Prozessphilosophie kennen lernte, als er den Lehrstuhl an der Universität Chicago innehatte, die damals ein wesentliches Zentrum für Whiteheads Denken war. Ob Rogers direkt von Whitehead-Schülern beeinflusst war oder nicht, seine Psychologie ist im Wesentlichen eine Prozesspsychologie und seine Gedanken zu Therapie in A Way of Being (1980) werden besonders klar, wenn man sie im Kontext von Whiteheads prozesshafter Sicht von Kosmologie sieht.Este escrito se enfoca en la imagen del universo sobre la que está basada la noción de tendencia formativa de Rogers como un fundamento del enfoque centrado en la persona. Rogers sitúa su pensamiento dentro del paradigma de la nueva ciencia y menciona algunas figuras claves que apoyan su noción de un universo orgánico en evolución. Entre ellas está el matemático y filósofo Alfred North Whitehead. Podemos especular que Rogers se contactó con el proceso filosófico de Whitehead durante el período en que ocupó su puesto en la Universidad de Chicago, que era en esa época un centro importante para el pensamiento de Whitehead. Ya sea que Rogers haya estado influenciado directamente por los seguidores de Whitehead o no, su psicología es esencialmente una psicología de procesos, y sus reflexiones sobre la terapia en Un Modo de Ser (1980) [El camino del ser, al menos en la Argentina] tienen más sentido cuando se consideran en el contexto de la visión de proceso de la cosmología de Whitehead.Cet article se centre sur l'image de l'univers qui était la notion qu'avait Rogers de la tendance formative comme fondement de l'approche centrée sur la personne. Rogers place sa pensée dans le paradigme de la new science (science nouvelle) et énumère un certain nombre de personnages clefs célèbres dont la pensée corrobore avec sa notion d'un univers organique et en évolution constante. Le mathématicien et philosophe Alfred North Whitehead en fait partie. Nous pouvons supposer que Rogers a fait la connaissance de la philosophie processuelle de Alfred North Whitehead alors qu'il travaillait à l'Université de Chicago, qui était à l'époque un centre important pour la pensée de Whitehead. Qu'il ait été ou non influence directement par les chercheurs de l'école de Whitehead, sa psychothérapie est essentiellement une psychologie processuelle, et ses réflexions sur la psychothérapie dans A Way of Being (1980) sont plus riches de significations quand on les lit dans le contexte de la vision de la cosmologie processuelle de Whitehead.O presente artigo coloca a ênfase na imagem do universo que apoia a noção de Rogers de tendência formativa enquanto fundamento da abordagem centrada na pessoa. Rogers situa o seu pensamento no seio do paradigma da nova ciência e apresenta um conjunto de personalidades de destaque que apoiam a sua noção de um universo orgânico e em evolução: Entre eles encontra-se o matemático e filósofo Alfred North Whitehead. Podemos especular que Rogers teve contacto com a filosofia do processo de Whitehead, no período em que leccionou na Universidade de Chicago, a qual era na época um centro privilegiado do pensamento de Whitehead. Quer Rogers tenha ou não sido directamente influenciado pelos discípulos de Whitehead, a sua psicologia é essencialmente uma psicologia de processo e as reflexões acerca da psicologia que faz no livro Um Jeito de Ser (1980) fazem mais sentido quando lidas no contexto da visão de processo que Whitehead tem da cosmologia.

Process Studies 48:2, 2019

An account of the discovery and significance of this lecture among long-hidden papers provided to the author by Alfred North Whitehead's grandson, upon finally moving out of the Whitehead home on Avon Street in Cambridge MA.

2009

Although Whitehead’s particular style of philosophizing--looking at traditional philosophical problems in light of recent scientific advances--was part of a trend that began with the scientific revolutions in the early 20th century and continues today, he was marginalized in 20th century philosophy because of his outspoken defense of what he was doing as “metaphysics.” Metaphysics, for Whitehead, is a cross-disciplinary hermeneutic responsible for coherently integrating the perspectives of the special sciences with one another and with everyday experience. The program of such a meta-discipline is challenging to philosophical orthodoxy because it enlarges, rather than narrows, the range of empirical evidence that philosophy must acknowledge. This places Whitehead’s philosophy in a perennial tradition that seeks to resolve fundamental antinomies through synthesis and reconciliation rather than reduction or elimination.