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6Starting With Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous TimesProcess Studies 52 (2): 281-285. 2023.
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58Beyond Mechanism: Putting Life Back Into BiologyLexington Books. 2013.It has been said that new discoveries and developments in the human, social, and natural sciences hang “in the air” (Bowler, 1983; 2008) prior to their consummation. While neo-Darwinist biology has been powerfully served by its mechanistic metaphysic and a reductionist methodology in which living organisms are considered machines, many of the chapters in this volume place this paradigm into question. Pairing scientists and philosophers together, this volume explores what might be termed “the New…Read more
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5Dynamic Being: Essays in Process-Relational Ontology (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2015.One of the most important characteristics of present day ontological research is the growing interest in, and emphasis on, the dynamic aspects of being and the process-relational character of being itself. However, many important questions still await detailed answers. For example, what is the meaning of the concepts of "dynamics," "dynamicity," and "dynamic ontology," among others? Are they identical to, or similar with, respectively, "processes," "process ontology," "process-relational ontolog…Read more
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15Education from a Whiteheadian Point of View: Rhythm, Process, and Poiesis (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2019.The basic aims of contemporary thinking in education are to cultivate a proper comprehension of the meaning and purpose of education and the role of the teacher, and to develop adequate theoretical and methodological frameworks that combine some of the positive sides of the leading theories, while avoiding their disadvantages. Toward these ends, one excellent candidate for consideration is Alfred North Whitehead's process-relational philosophy of education, as set forth in The Aims of Education …Read more
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35Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of BiologyProcess Studies 48 (1): 121-141. 2019.
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29The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead : Philosophical Presuppositions of ScienceProcess Studies 48 (1): 141-147. 2019.
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2James Mark Baldwin with Alfred North Whitehead on Organic Selectivity: The “Novel” Factor in EvolutionCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 5 (2): 40-107. 2009.
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76Kant and Hegel's Responses to Hume's Skepticism Concerning Causality: An Evolutionary Epistemological PerspectiveCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 8 (1): 227-288. 2012.According to Hume, determinations of necessary causal connection are without empirical warrant, but, as he maintains, the concept of causality qua necessary connection is indispensable to human beings, having survival value for them, a claim which points to the biological significance of this concept. In contrast to Hume, Kant argues that the causal principle qua necessary connection belongs to the a priori conceptual framework by which rational beings constitute their experience and render the …Read more
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On the Nature and Function of Scepticism in Speculative Philosophy: A Study of G. W. F. Hegel's "Logic" and A. N. Whitehead's "Process and Reality" (review)Dissertation, University of Ottawa (Canada). 2001.The following doctoral dissertation constitutes a conjoint analysis of the workings of scepticism as contained within Hegel's and Whitehead's respective and contrasting philosophies of 'process'. In it, I hypothesize that for these speculative thinkers, scepticism may be described as the 'mover' of philosophical, religious, and scientific endeavour. ;Part One of the thesis focuses on Hegel's 'initially-idealistic' standpoint of Absolute Idealism as contained in the Logic. I find that for him, sc…Read more
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8Whitehead's philosophy of education: Its promise and relationship to the philosophy of organismIn Michel Weber and Will Desmond (ed.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, De Gruyter. pp. 1--185. 2008.
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40James mark Baldwin with alfred north whitehead on organic selectivity: the “novel” factor in evolutionCosmos and History 5 (2): 40-107. 2009.The aim of this paper is to show how James Mark Baldwin’s theory of Organic Selection can be fruitfully integrated with Alfred North Whitehead’s speculative philosophy, as part of the endeavor to develop a comprehensive process-relational evolutionary cosmology. In so doing, it provides an overview of the theory of Organic Selection and points to several concrete examples from the Galapagos Islands which elucidate Baldwin’s claim that organisms, through their selective activities and behavioral …Read more
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138The role of scepticism in Hegel's "doctrine of the concept"Journal of Speculative Philosophy 17 (2): 77-91. 2003.
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18Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: A Common World for Animals and the Environment (review)Process Studies 45 (2): 266-272. 2016.
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W.J. Mander, Ed., Et Al., Anglo-american Idealism, 1865-1927 (review)Philosophy in Review 20 426-428. 2000.
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49On Religious Violence and Social Darwinism in the New Atheism: Toward a Critical PanselectionismAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 31 (1): 53-70. 2010.
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2Nicholas Rescher, Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 21 (5): 369-370. 2001.
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17Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Hegel's Theory of Judgement: A Treatise on the Possibility of Scientific InquiryBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (2): 399-402. 2014.No abstract
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Against Atheism: Why Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris are Fundamentally Wrong, by Ian S. Markham (review)Ars Disputandi 11. 2011.
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Nicholas Rescher, Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues (review)Philosophy in Review 21 369-370. 2001.
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