Process Philosophy

The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.

Alfred North Whitehead Explained: Process Philosophy, Reality, Creativity, Science, and the Nature of Experience is a practical introduction to a philosopher who asks readers to rethink what the world is made of. Whitehead does not begin with solid, self-contained things. He begins with events, relations, and moments of activity. That change in starting point affects how we think about time, causation, perception, freedom, and the natural world. This guide explains Whitehead’s central ideas in direct language and shows why they matter beyond specialist philosophy. The book opens with ...

The Ontological Limit of Reductionism Structure and Limits of Reductive Explanation in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind T-Reality Series — Vol. 1 Ontological Domain Philosophy of Mind and Neurophilosophy The Ontological Limit of Reductionism is the first volume of the T-Reality Series, an interdisciplinary investigation into consciousness at the intersection of philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Scientific reductionism has been one of the most successful explanatory frameworks in modern science. By analyzing systems in terms of their physical components and underlying...

The Lifelong Learning Process Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, and Some You Wish You Didn’t From Falling Asleep to Waking Up What if everything you thought you knew about learning was only part of the story? From childhood curiosity to late-life reflection, learning is often treated as a process of gaining knowledge, collecting facts, and forming conclusions. But what if real learning is not about adding more—but about seeing differently? In The Lifelong Learning Process, Robert D Sears takes readers on a thoughtful and often surprising exploration of how we learn, why we learn, and ...

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last 70 years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times. 

The Ontological Limit of Reductionism Structure and Limits of Reductive Explanation in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind T-Reality Series — Vol. 1 Ontological Domain Philosophy of Mind and Neurophilosophy The Ontological Limit of Reductionism is the first volume of the T-Reality Series, an interdisciplinary investigation into consciousness at the intersection of philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Scientific reductionism has been one of the most successful explanatory frameworks in modern science. By analyzing systems in terms of their physical components and underlying...

Meaning is not simply discovered but created. Two exceptional thinkers who can help us with this creative meaning-making process are the French academic René Girard and the British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Dr. Rabe demonstrates that deep, broad, and significant harmonies exist between process philosophy and mimetic theory. Girard enriches Whitehead through exemplification, and Whitehead enriches Girard through an expansion of the overall narrative and deeper ontological insights into the processes that made us human. The result is an illuminating unveiling of the biases we ...

What if reality is not made of fixed things—but of living flow? What if time is not what clocks measure? What if consciousness is not a chain of separate moments, but a continuous becoming? What if life itself is more creative, more fluid, and more alive than mechanism has ever been able to explain? In Bergson and the Flow of Reality, Clayton Louis Turnage explores the life, thought, and enduring significance of Henri Bergson, the philosopher who challenged the modern tendency to freeze reality into static concepts and argued instead that the deepest truth of existence is duration, ...

What if reality is not made of things at all? What if the universe is not a machine built from dead matter, but a living process of becoming? What if time, consciousness, relation, and creativity are not secondary features of reality—but its deepest structure? In Whitehead and the Process of Reality, Clayton Louis Turnage explores the life, thought, and enduring significance of Alfred North Whitehead, the mathematician, logician, and philosopher who helped overturn the ancient metaphysics of substance and replace it with one of the most radical visions in modern thought: Reality is not ...

John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.

The Two Scales of Reality Local Regimes and Non-Local Regimes T-Reality Series — Volume 4 Ontological Domainù Philosophy of Mind and Neurophilosophy The Two Scales of Reality — Local Regimes and Non-Local Regimes is the fourth volume in the T-Reality Series, an interdisciplinary research project integrating philosophy of mind, theoretical neuroscience, and cognitive science to examine the operational structure of consciousness and experienced reality. Previous volumes in the series established that perceived reality does not constitute a direct copy of an external world but emerges as ...

Fr. Sertillanges's teachings are as timeless as any truths which describe the genuine nature of things. . . . This book is highly recommended not only for intellectuals, but also for students and those discerning their vocation in life. —New Oxford Review

Second Edition The purpose of this short book is to provide in one place a systematic, clear description and discussion of the Scientific Method for the general public, students, teachers, and scientists. The style is informal. It is not about any particular field of science. Instead it discusses how science is done and why it is successful. A convenient outline of the Scientific Method, "The Scientific Method in a Nutshell", is provided and each step is discussed in the book chapters. Easily understood examples from the history of science are used to illustrate each step. The modern ...

How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign.

A groundbreaking book on consciousness science that unites neuroscience, philosophy, physics, bioelectricity, near-death experience research, meditation science, CIA Hemi-Sync analysis, trauma studies, AI consciousness debates, and field-based theories into one coherent framework. ✔ Explains why classical materialism fails to explain subjective experience ✔ Reveals how gamma synchrony, neural coherence, and bioelectric fields unlock the real structure of consciousness ✔ Examines the CIA Gateway Process, Hemi-Sync research, and remote viewing studies ✔ Integrates findings from NDEs, ...

The Reference Error Why the Problem of Consciousness Is Not a Problem T-Reality Series — Volume 2 The Ontological Domain What is consciousness, and what do neuroscience and cognitive science actually explain when they describe it Over the past decades, philosophy of mind, theoretical neuroscience, and cognitive science have developed increasingly precise models of brain function. Researchers such as Karl Friston, Thomas Metzinger, David Marr, Andy Clark, and David Chalmers have demonstrated that the brain operates through generative models that actively construct perception, cognition, ...

Alfred North Whitehead was among the first initiates into the twentieth century’s new cosmological story. This book both sets Whitehead’s philosophy of organism in historical context and brings it into conversation with key elements of contemporary scientific cosmology—including relativistic, quantum, evolutionary, and complexity theories. It lays bare the inadequacy of the materialistic-mechanistic metaphysical interpretation of these theories and exemplifies the contributions Whitehead’s cosmological scheme can make to the urgent transdisciplinary project of integrating natural ...

As technologies of automated computation rapidly transform human culture, we are being urged to believe that human minds are machines and machines are potentially minds. But what if the question of machine consciousness is not a hard problem awaiting better theories and technologies, but malformed—born from a metaphysics that first exiled feeling, purpose, and meaning from nature? Remembering the Human Microcosm in the Age of Mechanized Intelligence challenges the corporate myth of “artificial intelligence” and the emerging threat of cognitive enclosure: the attempt to meter and ...

Discover Healing and Growth Through the Wisdom of Buddhism Embark on a transformative journey through grief and loss with "The First Hundred Days of Healing: A Buddhist Journal for Navigating Loss and Grief." This compassionate and empathetic guide provides wisdom and support as you traverse the complex landscape of mourning. In this unique journal, you'll find: 100 carefully selected quotes exploring themes of grief, loss, hope, and self-development Insightful commentaries from a Buddhist philosophical perspective, offering new perspectives on your own experience of grief Daily writing ...

In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people”, who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.