Process Cosmology

Editor’s Introduction: Mediations for a New Epoch.- PART I: PHYSICS & COSMOLOGY.- 1. Process Physics: Toward an Organismic, Neo-Whiteheadian Physics, Jeroen B. J. van Dijk.- 2. Extending Whiteheadean Organic Cosmology to a Comprehensive Science of Nature.- Attila Grandpierre.- 3. Outlines of a Speculative Cosmology: Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism meets Descola’s Four Anthropological Dispositions towards Nature, Otávio S. R. D. Maciel.- PART II: ONTOLOGY & ECOLOGY.- 4. The Ontology of Ecology, Maria-Teresa Tiexiera.- 5. A Universe of Subjects: Process Cosmology and Deep Ecology, Wm. Andrew Schwartz.- 6. Eastern Traditions, Western Science and Whitehead.,John Pickering.- PART III: PLURALITY & PERSPECTIVISM.- 7. Cosmology and Meseology: Whitehead and the Plurality of Worlds, Rodrigo Petronio.- 8. Cosmic Epochs of Vigorous Order, Luís Morais.- 9. Truth and Reality in Whitehead’s Metaphysics, Glen Veitch.- PART IV: POSSIBILITY & MENTALITY.-  10. Rethinking Whitehead’s Cosmology through the Cosmogonic Philosophy of C.S. Peirce: Speculation on the Origins of the Actual and the Metaphysical Primacy of the Possible, Philip Rose.- 11. Jamesian Gifts and Whiteheadian Data: Selecting a Future, John Becker.- 12. A Process-Oriented Approach to Mental Causation, Friedrich Sieben.- PART V: TEMPORALITY & CREATIVITY.- 13. Grasping Epochal Time: A Process Phenomenological Approach.- Andrew Kirkpatrick.- 14. Bergson: from Virtual Action to the Melody of Time, Pedro Nuno Pereira Lopes.- 15. Whitehead and Bergson on Creativity and Stagnation in Art.- Miloš Ševčík.- PART VI: EXPERIENCE & RELIGION.- 16. Whitehead, Grof and Psychedelics, John Buchanan.- 17. Exceptional Human Experience and the Potential for New Cosmology, Lenny Gibson.- 18. Whiteheadian Cosmotheology: Platonic Entities, Divine Realities and Shared Extraterrestrial Values, Andrew M. Davis.