Contemporary Whitehead Studies (CWS) is an interdisciplinary book series that publishes manuscripts from scholars with contemporary and innovative approaches to the studies of

Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found applicat ...

. The book series was founded in 2009 with Rodopi as a special series in the

Value Inquiry Book Series The Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) is an international scholarly program, that publishes philosophical books in all areas of value inquiry, including social and political thought, ethics, applied philosophy, aesthetics, feminism, pragmatism, pers ...

. In 2011 the series moved to

Lexington Books Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing compa ...

, an imprint of

Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing compa ...

Editors

* Roland Faber, Ph.D.,

Claremont School of Theology Claremont School of Theology (CST) is an American graduate school focused on religion and theology and located in Claremont, California. CST is fully recognized and approved as one of thirteen official theological schools of the United Methodis ...

and

Claremont Graduate University The Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private, all-graduate research university in Claremont, California. Founded in 1925, CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges which includes five undergraduate (Pomona College, Claremont McKenna Co ...

, USA * Brian G. Henning, Ph.D., Gonzaga University, USA

Mission

CWS especially seeks projects that:Whitehead Research website
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continental philosophy Continental philosophy is a term used to describe some philosophers and philosophical traditions that do not fall under the umbrella of analytic philosophy. However, there is no academic consensus on the definition of continental philosophy. Pri ...

, especially sources, like Heidegger, or contemporary streams like

poststructuralism Post-structuralism is a term for philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it. Though post-structuralists all present different critiques ...

, * reconnect Whitehead to pragmatism, analytical philosophy and

philosophy of language In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, ...

, as a matter of source and recourse for an understanding of the tradition out of which Whitehead formulated his philosophic concepts or as a matter of engagement in areas that have excluded Whitehead, * explore creative East/West dialogues facilitated by Whitehead's work, * explore the interconnections of the mathematician with the philosopher and the contemporary importance of these parts of Whitehead's work for the dialogue between sciences and humanities, * reconnect Whitehead to the wider field of philosophy, the humanities, the sciences and academic research with Whitehead's pluralistic impulses in the context of a pluralistic world, * address Whitehead's philosophy (and, per example, of philosophy per se) in the midst of contemporary problems facing humanity, such as climate change, war & peace, race, and the future development of civilization.

Affiliated Project

''Contemporary Whitehead Studies'' is affiliated with the

Whitehead Research Project The Whitehead Research Project (WRP) is dedicated to research and scholarship on the texts, philosophy, and life of mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. It explores and analyzes the relevance of Whitehead's thought in dialogue with ...

Volumes

* # 1. ''Beyond Metaphysics? Explorations in Alfred North Whitehead’s Late Thought,'' Edited by

Roland Faber Roland Faber (born 1960) is an author and Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor of Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University. He is Executive Co-Director of the C ...

, Brian G. Henning, and Clinton Combs (2010). E- * # 2. ''Butler on Whitehead,'' Edited by

, Michael Halewood, and Deena Lin (2012). * # 3. ''The Divine Manifold,''

(2014). . E-. * # 4. ''Foundations of Relational Realism: A Topological Approach to Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Nature,'' Michael Epperson and Elias Zafaris (2015). . E-. * # 5. ''Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists Experience and Reality,'' Brian G. Henning, William T. Myers, and Joseph D. John (2015). . E-. * # 6. ''Creaturely Cosmologies Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation,'' Brianne Donaldson (2015). . E-. * # 7. ''Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics,'' Steve Odin (2016). . E-. * # 8. ''Beyond Whitehead: Recent Advances in Process Thought,'' Jakub Dziadkowiec, Lukasz Lamza (2017). . E-. * # 9. ''Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: Dislocations,'' Jeremy Fackenthal (2019). . E-. * # 10. ''Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory,'' Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, and Andrew M. Davis (2019). . E-. * # 11. ''Whitehead’s Radically Temporalist Metaphysics: Recovering the Seriousness of Time,'' George Allan (2020). . E-. * # 12. ''Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy,'' Andrew M. Davis (2020). . E-. * # 13. ''Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context,'' Timothy E. Eastman (2020). . E-. * # 14. ''On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary: Going the Bloody Hard Way,'' Randy Ramal (2021). . E-. * # 15. ''Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School'' Lisa Landoe Hedrick (2022). . E-. * # 16. ''Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead,'' Joseph Petek (2022). .

References

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External links

''Contemporary Whitehead Studies website''

''Whitehead Research Project website''

''Contemporary Whitehead Studies'' page on the publisher's website
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