Process StudiesPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5840/PROCESS2018471/210
Jon Paul Sydnor
{"title":"God Is Not Eternal, Nor Are We: On the Blessedness of Being in Time","authors":"Jon Paul Sydnor","doi":"10.5840/PROCESS2018471/210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/PROCESS2018471/210","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The association of God with eternity, and eternity with timelessness, harms Christian spiritual life. If eternity is superior to time, then God’s placement of human beings within time is ungenerous. Fortunately, the Christian concept of God as triune commends divine becoming through time. In particular, the social Trinitarian view that God is three persons united through love demands divine temporality. Relationality relies on change for its content. So, for God to be internally related, God must be internally timeful. Moreover, to assert that the Trinitarian persons relate through time places a high value on human relationships. Created in the image of God, we are called to create ever-closer community through time. This effort sanctifies time, rendering kairos of chronos. Kairos is the experience of time as sacred, whereas chronos is the experience of time as purposeless. For the three persons of the Trinity, all time is kairos. For us, every moment contains the potential for kairos because God sustains the universe continually. Through faith, the moment-by-moment progression of time can become the grace-by-grace gift of God.","PeriodicalId":315123,"journal":{"name":"Process Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116278969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Process StudiesPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5840/PROCESS2018471/28
Glen Veitch
{"title":"Process Perspectivism and Linguistic Relativity","authors":"Glen Veitch","doi":"10.5840/PROCESS2018471/28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/PROCESS2018471/28","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A thorough appreciation of the Whiteheadian subjectivist principle necessitates both a doctrine of panexperientialism as well as a metaphysical perspectivism. Employing a dialectical analysis of these two, this article argues that reality—as understood by the Whiteheadian term “actual world”—is largely misunderstood. Far from representing a singular concrete world, reality is multiplicitous and subject-dependent. As a result of this and the core tenet of process metaphysics—that all existents can be understood as event—it is argued that human language, as its own species of event, interacts with reality in the same way all other events do, and as such must be considered genuinely ontologically creative.","PeriodicalId":315123,"journal":{"name":"Process Studies","volume":"19 3 Suppl 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131172579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Process StudiesPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5840/PROCESS2018471/21
D. Schulz
{"title":"The Extensive Continuum versus the “Extensive Dis-Continuum” in Whitehead","authors":"D. Schulz","doi":"10.5840/PROCESS2018471/21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/PROCESS2018471/21","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article, I argue for the redundancy of Whitehead’s Platonic notion of the extensive continuum, counterposing it to his related notion of an atomic “ether of events.” I argue that Whitehead’s atomic ether is more compatible with orthodox general relativity than generally supposed and remarkably close to the contemporary idea of a discrete manifold in the causal set theory of quantum gravity. I argue that the method of extensive abstraction complements Whitehead’s atomic hypothesis by demonstrating the ultimately fictive nature of any continuum.","PeriodicalId":315123,"journal":{"name":"Process Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132935888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Process StudiesPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5840/process2018471/211
M. Brioschi
{"title":"The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead","authors":"M. Brioschi","doi":"10.5840/process2018471/211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/process2018471/211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315123,"journal":{"name":"Process Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125035923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Process StudiesPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5840/process2018471/27
Haipeng Guo
{"title":"A Taiji-Bagua Diagram for Whitehead’s Categoreal Scheme","authors":"Haipeng Guo","doi":"10.5840/process2018471/27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/process2018471/27","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The present article illustrates the well-known affinity between Whitehead’s process philosophy and Chinese thought by mapping the category of the ultimate and the categories of existence in Whitehead’s categoreal scheme onto the Taiji and Bagua diagrams as developed in The Book of Changes, or I Ching. The Taiji-Bagua diagrams are models of organic unity that provide a framework and structure to better understand the category of the ultimate and the categories of existence—particularly how these categories are related to each other. They illustrate more clearly the coherent nature of Whitehead’s speculative philosophy as stated in Process and Reality.","PeriodicalId":315123,"journal":{"name":"Process Studies","volume":"275 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115986013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Process StudiesPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5840/process2018471/212
W. Desmond
{"title":"Intuition in Mathematics and Physics: A Whiteheadian Approach","authors":"W. Desmond","doi":"10.5840/process2018471/212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/process2018471/212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315123,"journal":{"name":"Process Studies","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131982812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Process StudiesPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5840/process2018471/23
Tamar Levanon
{"title":"The Trails of the Unspoken: Bergson and Whitehead on Language and Time","authors":"Tamar Levanon","doi":"10.5840/process2018471/23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/process2018471/23","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The goal in this article is to compare Bergson’s and Whitehead’s treatment of language and in particular the extent to which each believed that language is capable of expressing the temporal dimension of experience.","PeriodicalId":315123,"journal":{"name":"Process Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133704904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Process StudiesPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5840/PROCESS2018471/26
L. Smith
{"title":"The Worship of God as “Sick Men’s Dreams”: A Response to David Hume","authors":"L. Smith","doi":"10.5840/PROCESS2018471/26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/PROCESS2018471/26","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article analyzes David Hume’s influential critique of worship from a process point of view informed by the thought of Whitehead and Hartshorne.","PeriodicalId":315123,"journal":{"name":"Process Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115770934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Process StudiesPub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.5840/process201746217
J. M. Kerr
{"title":"God Exists but Gawd Does Not","authors":"J. M. Kerr","doi":"10.5840/process201746217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/process201746217","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315123,"journal":{"name":"Process Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128745290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}