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.
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Second International Conference:Beyond Metaphysics? Transcontinental Explorations in Alfred North Whitehead's Late Thought
Date: December 4-6, 2008
Location: Claremont, California
The Whitehead Research Project and the Society for the Study of Process Philosophies will hold a major international conference on December 4-6 at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. This event will bring together leading scholars from Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and Great Brittan) and the United States to engage Alfred North Whitehead's late work. The theme will bring participants to explore the question of whether Whitehead's system is completed with Process and Reality, or if instead his metaphysics only comes fully into view in his later works (esp. Adventures of Ideas and Modes of Thought). One could, for instance, argue that Modes of Thought captures his true metaphysics. The goal will be to recognize the differentiation of Whitehead's thought post Process and Reality and to learn to measure it on its own terms.
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First International Conference:Event & Decision Conference: Ontology & Politics in Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead
Date: December 6-8, 2007
Location: Claremont, California
The Whitehead Research Project, in conjunction with the School of Humanities at Claremont Graduate University and Pomona College will be hosting "Event & Decision: Ontology & Politics in Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead". In this interdisciplinary conference, the philosophies of Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, and Alfred North Whitehead become sites for reflecting on Ontology and Politics in the many fields of its productive presence and novelty: philosophy, cultural studies, social and political theory, art, literature, and religion.
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