January
� May 2004
Lecturer:
Dr Gregory J. Moses
PHIL-A493-001
SEMINAR: PROCESS
A
Seminar on Process Relational Philosophy
42 contact hours/15 weeks, Room CM
304
Time: Monday, Wednesday
and Friday
UNIT OUTLINE FOR INPUT
Websites to access: start with
www.mpx.com.au/~gjmoses
and also
www.alfred.north.whitehead.com
which will take you to the website of the Center
for Process Studies among others, with enormous
on-line resources, and also
to the International Process Network, a
coalition of fifteen process-oriented
organizations.
Membership of the CPS in
The major Process journal is Process
Studies out of
PHIL-A493-001 SEMINAR: PROCESS
ASSESSMENT PACKAGE for Process Seminar January � May
2004
Mid-Term Exam: Monday Week 8, 8th
March, during class, to test knowledge of basic
theory, especially items 1-3.
Seminar Presentation plus Major Essay/Research
Project (same topic for both), to be
handed in prior to the final examination.
Topics: a research project leading
to an essay of at least 3000 words on a question
within the confines of one or more of items 2 to
8 above; other after consultation and at the
discretion of the lecturer. Within
the confines of the items above you can make up
your own question which however will be subject
to editing by the co-ordinator. The
topic of your research should be chosen by the
Friday of Week 8 (March 12th), but may be chosen
earlier.
Each person will be asked to
preside for at least one seminar in the latter
part of the term on his or her chosen topic
during weeks 9 to 15, times to be fixed on the
Monday of Week 9.
You should designate in advance what you
expect the rest of us to read in preparation.
Your seminar(s) will be an element of your
research-in-progress, need not be your final result written up
in the form of your essay.
The paper representing the result
of your research project should be handed in
prior to the final examination.
Final Examination: covering both the basic theory
and all topics explored during the term: Friday
May 7th
Other possible topics for research
could be:
Process Thought and Educational
Theory
Process Thought and the Mind-Body
Problem
Process Thought and Physics
Process Thought and Economics
Process Thought and Analytic
Philosophy
Process Thought and Theology e.g. Process Thought and
Trinitarian Theology.
In each case you should put
together a short bibliography to go with your
topic and question, including at least one
article or chapter of a book which is or could
easily be made readily accessible to the rest of
us so that we can read it in advance.
OFFICE HOURS:
Room No.: BO 414
Monday:
Wednesday:
Friday:
Phone: 865-3940
Email: [email protected]
; Loyola email address: [email protected]
Cellular/Mobile Phone No.: to be
advised.
Australian cellular/mobile phone
(works here) 61 (0)417 707
875
PHIL-A493-001
SEMINAR: PROCESS
BOOK
OF
JANUARY � MAY 2004
Compiled by: Dr Gregory J. Moses
Process
Seminar Book of
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Bibliography:
Process Philosophy and Process
Theology: An Annotated Bibliography of
Introductory Texts, 2nd Edition Revised,
compiled by Rob Cogswell,
For more, see Center for Process
Studies website.
Introductory, Basic Theory, Some
Historical Influences and Some Contemporary
Developments (i.e.
topics 1-3)
John B. Cobb, Jnr., and David Ray
Griffin, �Basic Concepts of Process Philosophy�,
from Process Theology: an
Introductory Exposition, Christian
Journals Ltd.,
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki,
Thomas E. Hosinski, Stubborn
Fact and Creative Advance: An Introduction to
the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, Rowman
and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham,
Maryland, 1993, pp. 1-29.
Alfred North Whitehead, Modes
of Thought, C.U.P. 1938, pp. 173-241. [One
might also read Parts I and V of Process and
Reality, which however is by far his most
difficult work.]
Joseph Bracken, �The World: Body of
God or Field of Cosmic Activity?�, in Charles
Hartshorne�s Concept of God: Philosophical and
Theological Responses (Kluwer, Dordrecht,
1990), pp. 89-102.
Human Existence, and Subjective
and Objective Immortality (topic 4)
Rosemary T. Curran,
�Whitehead�s notion of the person and the saving
of the past�, Scottish
Journal of Theology, Vol. � No� pp.
363-385.
Bernard M. Loomer, �On Committing
Yourself to a Relationship�, Process
Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4, Winter 1987, pp.
255-263.
Cobb and
David Ray Griffin, God and
Religion in the Postmodern World, S.U.N.Y.
Press,
Process Eco-Philosophy (topic 5)
John Cobb, �Theology and Ecology�,
Colloquium, Vol. 25, No. 1, May 1993,
pp. 2-9.
Charles Birch, �Chance, Purpose and
the Order of Nature� ,
from Liberating Life, pp. 182-188.
Charles Birch and Lukas Vischer, Living
with the Animals, WCC Publications,
Daniel A. Dombrowski, Hartshorne
and the Metaphysics of Animal Rights, S.U.N.Y,
1988, pp. 69-151.
Process Relational Philosophy and
Christian Theology (topic 6)
C. Robert Mesle,
Process Theology: A Basic Introduction, Chalice
Press, St. Louis, Missouri, 1993, pp.
1- 9, Introduction, and pp. 58- 64, �How God
Acts In the World�.
David Ray Griffin, Process
theology, from A Companion to
Philosophy of Religion, edited Philip L
Quinn and Charles Taliferro, Blackwell, 1997,
pp. 136-142.
Charles Hartshorne, on the
Ontological Argument, from The Ontological Argument, edited
A. Plantinga, Doubleday, 1965, pp. 123- 135. See
also Creative Synthesis and Philosophic
Method, �Six Theistic Proofs�.
Bernard M. Loomer, �Process
Theology: Origins, Strengths, Weaknesses�, Process
Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4, Winter 1987, pp.
245-254.
Henry James Young, �Process
Theology and Black Liberation: Testing the
Whiteheadian Metaphysical Foundations�, Contemporary
Philosophy, Vol. XII, No. 9, pp. 26-30.
Process-Relational Thought and
Buddhism (topic 7)
John B. Cobb, �God and Buddhism�,
from Cobb and (David)
John B. Cobb, Jr., �Buddhist
Emptiness and the Christian God�, Journal of
the
Feminism and Process Thought (topic 8)
From Feminism and Process
Thought, edited by Shiela Greeve Davaney, �Introduction� by
same, pp. 1-10, plus article by Valerie
C. Saiving,
�Androgynous Life: A Feminist Appropriation of
Process Thought�, pp. 11- 29.
Jay McDaniel, �Six Characteristics
of a Postpatriarchal Christianity�, Readings
in Ecology and Feminist Theology, edited
Mary Heather MacKinnon and Moni McIntyre, Sheed
and Ward, Kansas City, 1995, pp. 299-326.
Process Pluralism, beyond
Absolutism and Relativism (topic 9)
John B. Cobb, Jr., �Order Out of
Chaos: A Philosophical Model of Interreligious
Dialogue�, from Transforming Christianity
and the World, Orbis Books,
Henry J. Young, Hope in
Process: A Theology of Social Pluralism, Fortress
Press, 1990, pp. 47- 74, �A
Model for Cultural Pluralism: The
Adequacy of Organic Pluralism in Process
Metaphysics�.