Process Studies
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Process Studies is a peer-reviewed and refereed academic journal from the Center for Process Studies at Claremont Graduate University. It is the leading international journal in its field, with issues published twice a year. Process Studies is dedicated to the study of the thought and wide-ranging implications of Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) and his intellectual associates, most notably Charles E. Hartshorne (1897–2000), and others like William James (1842–1910), Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), and Henri Bergson (1859–1941). The mandate of Process Studies is to explore Whiteheadian-Hartshornean process thought at an advanced level and as it appears in related philosophies and theologies (as noted above), applying the Whiteheadian-Hartshornean conceptuality to a wide range of other fields: aesthetics, biology, cosmology, economics, education theory, ethics, history of religions, literary criticism, mathematics, political thought, psychology, physics and other natural sciences, the social sciences, sociology, psychology, Christian theology, and Eastern religions.
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Editors
Editor
Daniel A. Dombrowski
Professor of Philosophy
Seattle University
1206 NE 70th St.
Seattle, WA 98115
ddombrow@seattleu.edu
Managing Editor
Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies, Claremont School of Theology
Review Editors
Andrew Davis, Center for Process Studies, Claremont School of Theology
Jeanyne Slettom, Process Century Press
Abstracts Editor
Steve Hulbert, Center for Process Studies, Claremont School of Theology
Business Manager
Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies, Claremont School of Theology
Founding Editor (1971-95)
Lewis S. Ford
Editor (1995-2009)
Barry L. Whitney
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Process Studies
Manuscript submissions should be 6,000-8,000 words in length, including references and notes. Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, and sent by email attachment to the editor, Dr. Daniel A. Dombrowski, at ddombrow@seattleu.edu. Submissions must conform to the style guidelines at https://www.pdcnet.org/process/Submission-Guidelines.
Peer Review Policy: An initial review of the article is completed by the editor, after which two anonymous readers are assigned by the editor. Readers are selected for their area of expertise, which sometimes means selecting external reviewers and sometimes reviewers are on the editorial board. Because the review process is double blind, the journal avoids conflicts of interest to the greatest extent possible.
Featured Articles
The Animacy of Stone: A Whiteheadian Perspective
Brecht Govaerts
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/processstudies.50.1.0007
On Hartshorne's Creative Understanding of the Christian View of Love and Its Significance for Comparative Religious Studies
Jiran Wang
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/processstudies.50.1.0028
Not with a Ten-Foot Pole? A Mutually Enriching Dialogue Between Whitehead and Śaṅkara on Causation
Marc A. Pugliese
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/processstudies.50.1.0045
Freedom as a Centralizing Motif in the Work of Henri Bergson
Brian Claude Macallan
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/processstudies.50.1.0067
The God of Religion and the God of Philosophy Debate Revisited: Hartshorne, Peirce, and Weil
Noel Boulting
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/processstudies.50.1.0088
A Frequency Ratio Account of Temporal Atomism
Carey R. Carlson
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/processstudies.50.1.0107
Strategically Opposing Injustice: A Feminist Approach to John Cobb's and James Cone's Theologies
Joel D. Daniels
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/processstudies.50.1.0128
Reviewed Work: On Metaphysical Necessity: Essays on God, the World, Morality, and Democracy by Franklin Gamwell
Daniel Dombrowski
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/processstudies.50.1.0148
“The Eye Altering Alters All”: Optics, Haptics, and Ecological Modernity in Alfred North Whitehead and Romanticism
William Ilan Rubel
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article-abstract/52/1/9/351670/The-Eye-Altering-Alters-All-Optics-Haptics-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Cooking and Eating with Love: A Whiteheadian Theology of Meals for Planetary Well-Being
Thomas G. Hermans-Webster
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article-abstract/52/1/28/351666/Cooking-and-Eating-with-Love-A-Whiteheadian?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Whitehead, Sustainable Development, and Nonanthropocentrism
Keith Robinson
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article-abstract/52/1/47/351673/Whitehead-Sustainable-Development-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Static in Process: A Key to Applying Process Philosophy for Ecological Civilization
Juliet Bennett
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article-abstract/52/1/64/351672/Static-in-Process-A-Key-to-Applying-Process?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Bateson's Process Ontology for Psychological Practice
Julien Tempone-Wiltshire; Tra-ill Dowie
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article-abstract/52/1/95/351671/Bateson-s-Process-Ontology-for-Psychological?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Standing Firm in the Flux: On Whitehead's Eternal Objects
Matthew David Segall
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/issue/52/2
Whitehead's Ethics: Fill in the Blanks
Daniel Bella; Milan Stürmer
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/52/2/179/383039/Whitehead-s-Ethics-Fill-in-the-Blanks
From a Philosophy of Evolution to a Philosophy of Organism
Paul A. Bogaard
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/52/2/201/383034/From-a-Philosophy-of-Evolution-to-a-Philosophy-of
Whitehead's 1925–1927 View of Function and Time
Ronny Desmet
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/52/2/223/383038/Whitehead-s-1925-1927-View-of-Function-and-Time
The Path to Understanding: Relation and Solidarity in Whitehead's Metaphysics
Alessia Giacone
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/52/2/249/383037/The-Path-to-Understanding-Relation-and-Solidarity
Sense and Symbolic Sensibility: The Rise of Amphibians and the Roots of Language in Whiteheadian Perspective
Gordon L. Miller
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/53/1/7/387222/Sense-and-Symbolic-Sensibility-The-Rise-of
Sand Talk: Process Philosophy and Indigenous Knowledges
Julien Tempone-Wiltshire
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/53/1/42/387220/Sand-Talk-Process-Philosophy-and-Indigenous
Bergson and the Metaphysical Implications of Calculus
John Robert Bagby
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/53/1/69/387221/Bergson-and-the-Metaphysical-Implications-of
Politics as Reflective Equilibrium: On Dombrowski's Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism: Rawls, Whitehead, Hartshorne
George W. Shields
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/53/1/91/387212/Politics-as-Reflective-Equilibrium-On-Dombrowski-s
Hope Embracing Hopelessness: Toward a Process Approach to Solidarity with the Oppressed
Weizhen Chen
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/53/1/110/387219/Hope-Embracing-Hopelessness-Toward-a-Process
Personal Identity Matters
Graham Ernest Bloor
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/53/2/151/391639/Personal-Identity-Matters
Process Axiology, Buddhism, Time, and Enduring Selves
Rem B. Edwards
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/53/2/172/391633/Process-Axiology-Buddhism-Time-and-Enduring-Selves
On the Goodness of Whitehead's God: A Defense and Metaphysical Interpretation
Andrew M. Davis
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/53/2/192/391634/On-the-Goodness-of-Whitehead-s-God-A-Defense-and
A Metaphysical Analysis of Chemical Change: Toward a Reconciliation of Whiteheadian Process Metaphysics and Aristotelian-Scholastic Substance Metaphysics
Ross Stein
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/53/2/213/391635/A-Metaphysical-Analysis-of-Chemical-Change-Toward
Invention in Bergson's Integral Empiricism: Differential Matter and Integral Memory
John Robert Bagby
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/53/2/233/391637/Invention-in-Bergson-s-Integral-Empiricism
Three Forms of Phenomenology and Process Philosophy
Noel Boulting
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/54/1/45/399512/Three-Forms-of-Phenomenology-and-Process
The Parallels between Process Metaphysics and African Metaphysics
Emmanuel Ofuasia
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/54/1/67/399509/The-Parallels-between-Process-Metaphysics-and
The Place of Nature in Whitehead's Metaphysics
Benjamin E. Snyder
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article/54/1/88/399513/The-Place-of-Nature-in-Whitehead-s-Metaphysics
