News & Announcements

International Board of Academic Advisors (July 10, 2008): The Whitehead Research Project is pleased to announce it's International Board of Academic Advisors. The board includes the following individuals: James Bradley, Jeremy R. Hustwit, Helmut Maaßen, Leemon McHenry, Keith Robinson, Robert J. Valenza, James Williams. Click here to read their bios.

Website Changes (March 4, 2008): The WRP website receives a minor face-lift. Please feel free to let us know what you think.

Director of Research & Publication (February 15, 2008): The Whitehead Research Project is pleased to announce that Brian Henning, Associate Director of the Society for the Study of Process Philosophies, has joined the team as Director of Research & Publication, in in charge of facilitating the publication of Whitehead’s work by helping to collect published and unpublished works, secure rights, and edit texts. Visit the team page to read Brian's bio or visit his website.

Upcoming WRP Events

WRP Session at the 2009 Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Conference:“Whitehead and Radical Empiricism”

Whitehead is often read as a Platonist, and a Platonist in the mould of A.E Taylor. There is a fair amount in Whitehead to support this particularly, for example, the resemblance of his concepts of eternal objects, the ‘primordial nature of God’, extensive continuum, etc, to Plato’s own notions. Yet Whitehead is also deeply critical of Plato and particularly over the role that static abstractions play in establishing a non-processual reality in his thought. The papers in this session explore the idea that, rather than any Platonism, both the critical and creative aspects of Whitehead’s metaphysics are informed by a model of ‘radical empiricism’ derived from William James and others. [more information]

Check out our general listing of Whitehead-related events.