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Michel Weber is a Belgian philosopher, born in Brussels

Brussels

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in 1963.

He is best known as an interpreter and advocate of the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education...

(1861–1947). He has come to prominence as the architect and organizer of an overlapping array of international scholarly societies and collaborative, often intercultural, publication projects devoted to Whitehead and the global relevance of process philosophy

Process philosophy

Process philosophy identifies metaphysical reality with change and dynamism. Since the time of Plato and Aristotle, philosophers have posited true reality as "timeless", based on permanent substances, whilst processes are denied or subordinated to timeless substances...

. He was educated in Belgium

Belgium

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and the United States. The primary languages of his publications are English and French.

A few of his articles have been published in translation (Romanian: 2; Portuguese: 1; Bulgarian: 1; Mandarin: 1).

Interest in Process Philosophy

As a principal source of inspiration, Weber promotes the ideas of a group of loosely associated thinkers from the early 20th century who applied evolutionary thinking to psychology

Psychology

Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

, epistemology, cosmology

Cosmology

Cosmology is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole. Cosmologists seek to understand the origin, evolution, structure, and ultimate fate of the Universe at large, as well as the natural laws that keep it in order...

, metaphysics

Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...

, and theology

Theology

Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

, giving rise to the school of thought now known as “process philosophy

Process philosophy

.” Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead

(1861–1947), along with C. S. Peirce (1839–1914), Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize...

(1859–1941), and William James

William James

William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism...

(1842–1910), is regarded as one of the fathers of process philosophy. This mostly Anglo-American school of thought still finds only minority endorsement in academic philosophy departments. Nevertheless, despite its limited reception in the United States and Great Britain, process philosophy has begun to interest a small but growing number of scholars worldwide. By organizing a global network of like-minded scholars and fostering the publication of their ideas in Europe, Weber has contributed significantly to the visibility of process philosophy in Europe.

There also appears to be a shift of focus. Until recently, interest in Whitehead, especially in the United States, tended to focus on process theology

Process theology

Process theology is a school of thought influenced by the metaphysical process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and further developed by Charles Hartshorne . While there are process theologies that are similar, but unrelated to the work of Whitehead the term is generally applied to the...

. Whitehead's brief but provocative theological speculations, added almost as an afterthought at the end of his major philosophical opus Process and Reality

Process and Reality

In philosophy, especially metaphysics, the book Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead sets out its author's philosophy of organism, also called process philosophy...

(1929), were elaborated into an excitingly new natural theology

Natural theology

Natural theology is a branch of theology based on reason and ordinary experience. Thus it is distinguished from revealed theology which is based on scripture and religious experiences of various kinds; and also from transcendental theology, theology from a priori reasoning.Marcus Terentius Varro ...

that seemed particularly attractive to Christian theologians because it made naturalistic sense of God's personal love for creatures. This theological emphasis, however, along with a sometimes evangelical tone adopted by Whitehead's more ardent devotees, may be the reason for the marginalization of process philosophy in mainstream academic philosophy.

With his 1996 book Process Metaphysics, the eminent and prolific American philosopher Nicholas Rescher

Nicholas Rescher

Nicholas Rescher is an American philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh. In a productive research career extending over six decades, Rescher has established himself as a systematic philosopher of the old style and author of a system of pragmatic idealism which weaves together threads of...

began a campaign to rehabilitate a broadly secular style of process thinking. He defended it as the optimal matrix for any systematic theorizing about the nature of things. Like Rescher in the United States, Weber cultivates a critical and largely secular appreciation for process philosophy. He translated Resher's Process Metaphysics into French in 2006.

Professional Activities

Weber is the author of 5 monographs and 60 scholarly articles and encyclopedia entries. His monograph La Dialectique de l’intuition chez A. N. Whitehead: sensation pure, pancréativité et contiguïsme (The Dialectic of Intuition in the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead: Pure Sensation, Pancreativity, and Onto-logism) was awarded the Prix du Concours annuel 2000 by the Royal Academy of Belgium.

He is also the motive force behind numerous international and intercultural collaborations. He strives to coordinate his professional activities toward the creation of a new, visionary philosophical culture conceived as cooperative, intellectually adventurous, ethically self-aware, and global in reach.

He has founded three international scholarly societies:

Chromatiques whiteheadiennes,
the Whitehead Psychology Nexus, and
the European William James
William James
William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism...

Project.
- He manages a non-profit publishing house,
Éditions Chromatika.
- And, he oversees (in conjunction with various colleagues) the publication of four book series
the Chromatiques whiteheadiennes,
the Ontos Verlag Series in Process Thought,
the Whitehead Psychology Nexus Studies, and
the Chromatika editions,

as well as a philosophical annual,

Chromatikon: Annuaire de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process.

Using process philosophy as a matrix to foster synergies, Weber follows the work of hundreds of scholars worldwide and with each of his projects defines a locus where he thinks creative energies are poised to intersect. Collaborating with some 150 scholars representing all continents, he has to date edited or co-edited 30 collections, bringing together hundreds of original papers on themes relating to process philosophy in an interdisciplinary and multicultural context.

Most ambitious in scope is the two-volume Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, edited by Weber and Will Desmond: "Gathering 115 entries written by 101 internationally renowned experts in their fields, the Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought aims at interpreting Whitehead secundum Whitehead, at canvassing the current state of knowledge in Whiteheadian scholarship and at identifying promising directions for future investigations through (internal) cross-elucidation and (external) interdisciplinary and crossdisciplinary development."

Also noteworthy is the recent interdisciplinary volume edited by Weber and Anderson Weekes, Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind, which "opens a dialogue between process philosophy and [the burgeoning field of] contemporary consciousness studies." It is too early to judge how this book will be received by those who approach the study of consciousness from more mainstream backgrounds in Anglo-American Analytic philosophy or in Continental Phenomenology and Existentialism, but the contributors to this volume make a point of establishing what they believe to be fertile common ground between process thought and both its mainstream rivals.

Weber is also the founder of the Centre for Philosophical Practice in Brussels. Philosophical Counseling

Philosophical counseling

Philosophical counseling, also sometimes called philosophical practice, is a contemporary movement in practical philosophy. Its practitioners ordinarily have a doctorate or minimally a master’s degree in philosophy and offer their philosophical counseling or consultation services to clients...

is a recent movement, probably begun in the United States, employing Socratic methods of dialog for the purpose of short-term counseling that, without seeking to replace more traditional psychotherapies, nevertheless offers an alternative to them.

In July 2010, he organized an Applied Process Metaphysics Summer Institute in Paris, at the Cité universitaire’s Fondation Biermans Lapôtre." The second Institute will take place on July 26th, 27th and 28th 2011.

Ideas

Weber criticizes contemporary academic philosophy for losing touch with its early Greek roots. Philosophy has a practical mission (rooted in Socratic discourse) to restore personal and social well being, but it cannot do this, he argues, if it renounces its traditional metaphysical obligation (rooted in pre-Socratic

Pre-Socratic philosophy

Pre-Socratic philosophy is Greek philosophy before Socrates . In Classical antiquity, the Presocratic philosophers were called physiologoi...

speculation) to understand the cosmos

Cosmos

In the general sense, a cosmos is an orderly or harmonious system. It originates from the Greek term κόσμος , meaning "order" or "ornament" and is antithetical to the concept of chaos. Today, the word is generally used as a synonym of the word Universe . The word cosmos originates from the same root...

. Weber believes that process philosophy is uniquely qualified to fulfill this double function in the post-modern world.

Biography

Michel Weber studied applied economics at the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis

Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis

The Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels, Belgium is a public university in the French Community of Belgium. Its official language is French...

(candidat ingénieur commercial, 1986) and philosophy at the Université de Louvain (licencié en philosophie, 1991; docteur en philosophie, 1997). His master’s thesis, written under the supervision of Jean Ladrière, dealt with the epistemological status of the “anthropic principle

Anthropic principle

In astrophysics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the philosophical argument that observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it. Some proponents of the argument reason that it explains why the Universe has the age and the fundamental...

” in cosmology

Cosmology

in light of the concepts of teleology

Teleology

A teleology is any philosophical account which holds that final causes exist in nature, meaning that design and purpose analogous to that found in human actions are inherent also in the rest of nature. The word comes from the Greek τέλος, telos; root: τελε-, "end, purpose...

(or “finality

Finality

Finality may refer to:* Extrinsic finality* Intrinsic finality* Finality...

”) found in Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...

, Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas, O.P. , also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Communis, or Doctor Universalis...

, and Kant

KANT

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.

From 1993 to 1995, he was Visiting Scholar at the Center for process studies of the Claremont School of Theology

Claremont School of Theology

Claremont School of Theology is a graduate school located in Claremont, California, offering Master of Art, Masters of Divinity, Doctorate of Ministry and Ph.D...

and at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California (USA), where he worked under the supervision of John B. Cobb

John B. Cobb

John B. Cobb, Jr. is an American United Methodist theologian who played a crucial role in the development of process theology. He integrated Alfred North Whitehead's metaphysics into Christianity, and applied it to issues of social justice.-Biography:John Cobb was born in Kobe, Japan in 1925 to...

, Jr. and David Ray Griffin

David Ray Griffin

David Ray Griffin is a retired American professor of philosophy of religion and theology. Along with John B. Cobb, Jr., he founded the Center for Process Studies in 1973, a research center of Claremont School of Theology which seeks to promote the common good by means of the relational approach...

.

In 1997, he defended his doctoral thesis, Intuition pré-systématique et intuition ontologique chez Alfred North Whitehead. Euristique du pancréativisme de l’époque de Harvard (Pre-systematic Intuition and Ontological Intuition According to Alfred North Whitehead: The Heuristics of Pan-creativism in the Harvard Era), written under the supervision of Marcel Crabbé.

From 1997 to 2002 he was Research Fellow (membre coopté) at the Centre de Logique de l’Institut supérieur de Philosophie (Université de Louvain). From 2001 to 2002 he taught philosophy at the École européenne Bruxellensis II (European Baccalaureate, Anglophone Section, 6th and 7th years). From 2002 to 2007, he was Research Fellow (collaborateur scientifique) at the Centre d’anthropologie philosophique de l’Institut supérieur de Philosophie (Université de Louvain).

In 2000, his monograph La dialectique de l’intuition chez A. N. Whitehead. Sensation pure, pancréativité et onto-logisme (The Dialectic of Intuition in the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead: Pure Sensation, Pancreativity, and Onto-logism) was awarded a prize by the Belgian Royal Academy (Classe des Lettres de l’Académie Royale de Belgique).

In 2000, Weber created, with the support of François Beets and Paul Gochet

Paul Gochet

Paul Gochet was a Belgian logician and philosopher, emeritus professor of the University of Liège. His research is mainly in the fields of logic and analytic philosophy. He is now best known for his works on Quine's philosophy....

(Université de Liège), the Chromatiques whiteheadiennes and the Whitehead Psychology Nexus, two scholarly societies intended to federate research on different aspects, nuances, and implications of the thought of A. N. Whitehead. In 2001, he created the European William James

William James

Project with Jack Barbalet (University of Leicester), Jaime Nubiola (University of Navarra) and the late Timothy L. S. Sprigge (Emeritus Edinburgh).

In 2002, he created the research seminars “Chromatiques whiteheadiennes” with the cooperation of the “Philosophies of Experience” research center at the Université de Nantes Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Study of Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy at the Sorbonne (le Centre d'Études sur le Pragmatisme et la Philosophie Analytique or CEPPA, but renamed since as EXeCO; Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne-École Doctorale).

Since 2004, he has been the Editorial Director the of the series Chromatiques whiteheadiennes for the academic publisher Ontos Verlag (Frankfurt) and Editorial Co-director, along with Nicholas Rescher (Pittsburgh) and Johanna Seibt (Aarhus & Konstanz), of the Process Thought series, also with Ontos Verlag (Advisory Board: Mark Bickhard, Lehigh; Jaime Nubiola, Navarra; and Roberto Poli, Trento).

Since 2005, he has co-edited the Chromatikon: Annuaire de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process at the University of Louvain Press, first with Diane d'Eprémesnil (Louvain), then with Pierfrancesco Basile (University of Bern), and now with Ronny Desmet (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

In 2006, he created the Chromatiques whiteheadiennes “Centre for Philosophical Practice,” a non-profit organization. The Center now federates the three networks mentioned above (the Chromatiques whiteheadiennes, the Whitehead Psychology Nexus, and the European William James Project) and provides an institutional base for two new activities: first, the publication of a scholarly book series appearing under the label Les Éditions Chromatika (Chromatika Editions) and, second, the opening in Brussels of Belgium’s first philosophical counseling service or “philosophical praxis.”

Since 2007, he has been a member of the “Contemporary Ontological Visions” network of the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 2008–9, he was Visiting Professor at the New Bulgarian University, Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology & Department of Philosophy and Sociology.

Since 2009, Weber is also a trained hypnotherapist (Institut Milton Erickson, Brussels).

Authored Monographs

La Dialectique de l’intuition chez A. N. Whitehead: sensation pure, pancréativité et contiguïsme. Préface de Jean Ladrière. Mémoire couronné par la Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques de l’Académie Royale de Belgique, Frankfurt / Paris, Ontos Verlag, 2005 (ISBN 3-937202-55-2).
Whitehead’s Pancreativism. The Basics. Foreword by Nicholas Rescher, Frankfurt / Paris, Ontos Verlag, 2006 (ISBN 3-938793-15-5).
L’Épreuve de la philosophie. Essai sur les fondements de la praxis philosophique, Louvain-la-Neuve, Éditions Chromatika, 2008 (ISBN 978-2-930517-02-5).
Éduquer (à) l’anarchie. Essai sur les conséquences de la praxis philosophique, Louvain-la-Neuve, Éditions Chromatika, 2008. (ISBN 978-2-930517-03-2).
(with Jean-Claude Dumoncel) Whitehead ou Le Cosmos torrentiel. Introductions à Procès et réalité, Louvain-la-Neuve, Éditions Chromatika, 2010 (ISBN 978-2-930517-05-6).
Whitehead's Pancreativism. Jamesian Applications, Frankfurt / Paris, ontos verlag, 2011 (ISBN 978-386838-103-0).

Co-Edited Collections

James A. Bradley, André Cloots, Helmut Maaßen and Michel Weber (eds.), European Studies in Process Thought, Vol. I. In Memoriam Dorothy Emmet, Leuven, European Society for Process Thought, 2003 (ISBN 3-8330-0512-2).
Franz Riffert and Michel Weber (eds.), Searching for New Contrasts. Whiteheadian Contributions to Contemporary Challenges in Neurophysiology, Psychology, Psychotherapy and the Philosophy of Mind, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, Whitehead Psychology Nexus Studies I, 2003 (ISBN 3-631-39089-0).
Michel Weber (ed.),After Whitehead: Rescher on Process Metaphysics, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2004 (ISBN 3-937202-49-8).
François Beets, Michel Dupuis and Michel Weber (eds.), Alfred North Whitehead. De l’Algèbre universelle à la théologie naturelle. Actes des Journées d’étude internationales tenues à l’Université de Liège les 11-12-13 octobre 2001, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2004 (ISBN 3-937202-64-1).
Michel Weber (under the direction of) and Diane d'Eprémesnil (with the collaboration of), Chromatikon. Annuaire de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2005 (ISBN 2-87463-000-4).
Michel Weber and Samuel Rouvillois (eds.), L’Expérience de Dieu. Lectures de Religion in the Making. Actes du troisième Colloque international Chromatiques whiteheadiennes, Paris, Aletheia. Revue de formation philosophique, théologique et spirituelle, Hors série, 2006 (ISSN 1242-0832).
François Beets, Michel Dupuis and Michel Weber (eds.), La Science et le monde moderne d’Alfred North Whitehead — Alfred North Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World. Actes des Journées d’étude internationales tenues à l’Université catholique de Louvain, les 30-31 mai et 1 juin 2003 — Proceedings of the Second “Chromatiques whiteheadiennes” International Conference. Publiés avec le concours du FNRS, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2006 (ISBN 3-938793-07-4).
Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (eds.), Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality, Frankfurt/Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2006 (ISBN 978-3-938793-38-1).
Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (under the direction of), Chromatikon II. Annuaire de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2006 (ISBN 2-87463-027-6).
Guillaume Durand and Michel Weber (eds), Les Principes de la connaissance naturelle d’Alfred North Whitehead — Alfred North Whitehead’s Principles of Natural Knowledge. Actes des Journées d’étude internationales tenues à l’Université de Nantes, les 3 et 4 octobre 2005 — Proceedings of the Fourth International “Chromatiques whiteheadiennes” Conference. Publiés avec le concours du Département de philosophie de l'Université de Nantes, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Chromatiques whiteheadiennes IX, 2007. (ISBN 978-3-938793-64-0)
Benoît Bourgine, David Ongombe, and Michel Weber (eds.), Religions, sciences, politiques. Regards croisés sur Alfred North Whitehead. Actes du colloque international tenu à l’Université de Louvain les 31 mai, 1 et 2 juin 2006. Publiés avec le concours du FNRS, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Chromatiques whiteheadiennes VI, 2007. (ISBN 978-3-938793-52-7)
Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (under the direction of), Chromatikon III. Annuaire de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2007. (ISBN 978-2-8746-3083-5)
Michel Weber and Will Desmond (eds.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Process Thought X1 & X2, 2008. (ISBN 978-3-938793-92-3)
Maria Pachalska and Michel Weber (eds.), Neuropsychology and Philosophy of Mind in Process. Essays in Honor of Jason W. Brown, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Process Thought XVIII, 2008. (ISBN 978-3-86838-010-1)
Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (under the direction of), Chromatikon IV. Annuaire de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2008. (ISBN 978-2-87463-137-5)
Alan Van Wyk and Michel Weber (eds.), Creativity and Its Discontents. The Response to Whitehead's Process and Reality, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2009. (ISBN 978-3-86838-018-7)
Peter Hare, Michel Weber, James K. Swindler, Oana-Maria Pastae, Cerasel Cuteanu (eds.), International Perspectives on Pragmatism, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. (ISBN 978-1-4438-0194-2)
George Derfer, Zhihe Wang, and Michel Weber (eds.), The Roar of Awakening. A Whiteheadian Dialogue Between Western Psychotherapies and Eastern Worldviews (Whitehead Psychology Nexus Studies III), Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2009. (ISBN 978-3-86838-039-2)
Michel Weber and Anderson Weekes (eds.), Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind (Whitehead Psychology Nexus Studies II), Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 2009 (ISBN 978-1-4384-2941-0 & ISBN 978-1-4384-2940-3).
Michel Weber and Ronny Desmet (under the direction of), Chromatikon V. Annuaire de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2009 (ISBN 978-2-87463-191-7).
Ronny Desmet and Michel Weber (edited by), Whitehead. The Algebra of Metaphysics. Applied Process Metaphysics Summer Institute Memorandum, Louvain-la-Neuve, Éditions Chromatika, 2010 (ISBN 978-2-930517-08-7).
Michel Weber et Ronny Desmet (sous la direction de), Chromatikon VI. Annales de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process, Louvain-la-Neuve, Éditions Chromatika, 2010 (ISBN 978-2-930517-10-0).

Translations

Nicholas Rescher, Essais sur les fondements de l'ontologie du procès (Process Metaphysics). Translation and preface by Michel Weber, translation reviewed for accuracy by the author, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2006 (ISBN 3-938793-16-3).

Co-Edited Monographs

Philippe Devaux, La Cosmologie de Whitehead. Tome I, L'Épistémologie whiteheadienne, edited by Thibaut Donck and Michel Weber, published with the support of the Centre national de Recherches de Logique (CNRL/NCNL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Les Éditions chromatika, 2007. (ISBN 978-2-930517-01-8)
John B. Cobb, Jr., Lexique whiteheadien. Les catégories de Procès et réalité, translation by Henri Vaillant, reviewed for accuracy by Emeline Deroo, edited with a preface by Michel Weber, Louvain-la-Neuve, Les Éditions Chromatika, 2010 (ISBN 978-2-930517-06-3).

Chromatiques whiteheadiennes (10 volumes to date)

Michel Weber, La Dialectique de l'intuition, 2005.
François Beets, Michel Dupuis et Michel Weber (eds.), De l'Algèbre universelle à la théologie naturelle, 2004.
Jean-Marie Breuvart (ed.), Les Rythmes éducatifs, 2005.
A. N. Whitehead, La Science et le monde moderne, 2006.
François Beets, Michel Dupuis et Michel Weber (eds.), La Science et le monde moderne, 2006.
Benoit Bourgine, David Ongombe, Michel Weber (eds.), Religions, sciences, politiques, 2007.
Guillaume Durand, Des Événements aux objets, 2007.
Guillaume Durand and Michel Weber (eds.), Les Principes de la connaissance naturelle, 2007.
Nicholas Rescher, Les Fondements de l'ontologie du procès, 2006.
has not appeared yet
Xavier Verley, La Philosophie spéculative de Whitehead, 2007.

Chromatikon Yearbook (6 volumes to date)

Michel Weber (under the direction of) and Diane d'Eprémesnil (with the collaboration of), Chromatikon I, 2005.
Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (under the direction of), Chromatikon II, 2006.
Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (under the direction of), Chromatikon III, 2007.
Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (under the direction of), Chromatikon IV, 2008.
Michel Weber and Ronny Desmet (under the direction of), Chromatikon V, 2009.
Michel Weber and Ronny Desmet (under the direction of), Chromatikon VI, 2010.

Process Thought (22 volumes to date)

Michel Weber (ed.), After Whitehead, 2004.
Jason Brown, Process and the Authentic Life, 2005.
Silja Graupe, Der Ort ökonomischen Denkens, 2005.
Wenyu Xie, Zhihe Wang, George Derfer (eds.), Whitehead and China, 2005.
Gary L. Herstein, Whitehead and the Measurement Problem, 2006.
Edward Jacob Khamara, Space, Time and Theology in the Leibniz-Newton Controversy, 2006.
Michel Weber, Whitehead's Pancreativism. The Basics, 2006.
Michel Weber, Whitehead's Pancreativism. Jamesian Applications, 2011.
Alan Van Wyk and Michel Weber (eds.), Creativity and its Discontents, 2009.
Michel Weber and Will Desmond, (eds.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, 2008.
Nicholas Rescher, Process Philosophical Deliberations, 2006.
Sergio Franzese and Felicitas Krämer (eds.), Fringes of Religious Experience, 2007.
Pierfrancesco Basile and Leemon McHenry (eds.), Consciousness, Reality and Value, 2007.
Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (eds.), Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality, 2006.
Silja Graupe, The Basho of Economics, 2007.
Mark Dibben and Thomas Kelly (eds.), Applied Process Thought I, 2008.
Gudmund J. W. Smith and Ingegerd M. Carlsson (eds.), Process and Personality, 2008.
Maria Pachalska and Michel Weber (eds.), Neuropsychology and the Philosophy of Mind, 2008.
Sergio Franzese, The Ethics of Energy, 2008.
George Derfer, Zhihe Wang and Michel Weber (eds.), The Roar of Awakening, 2009.
Mark Dibben and Rebecca Newton (eds.), Applied Process Thought II, 2009.
Nicholas Rescher, Ideas in Process, 2009.

Whitehead Psychology Nexus Studies (4 volumes to date)

Franz Riffert & Michel Weber (eds.), Searching for New Contrasts, Lang, 2003.
Michel Weber & Anderson Weekes (eds.), Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind, SUNY, 2009.
George Derfer, Zhihe Wang and Michel Weber (eds.), The Roar of Awakening. A Whiteheadian Dialogue Between Western Psychotherapies and Eastern Worldviews, Ontos Verlag, 2009.
Joseph Mabika & Michel Weber (eds.), Creativity and Ntu, [forthcoming].

Les Éditions Chromatika (11 volumes to date)

A. N. Whitehead, Les Principes de la connaissance naturelle, 2007 (ISBN 978-2-930517-00-1).
Philippe Devaux, La Cosmologie de Whitehead, 2007 (ISBN 978-2-930517-01-8).
Michel Weber, L’Épreuve de la philosophie, 2008 (ISBN 978-2-930517-02-5).
Michel Weber, Éduquer (à) l’anarchie, 2008 (ISBN 978-2-930517-03-2).
A. N. Whitehead, La Religion en gestation, 2009 (ISBN 978-2-930517-04-9).
Jean-Claude Dumoncel and Michel Weber, Whitehead ou Le Cosmos torrentiel. Introductions à Procès et réalité, 2010 (ISBN 978-2-930517-05-6).
John B. Cobb, Jr., Lexique whiteheadien. Les catégories de Procès et réalité [2008], 2010 (ISBN 978-2-930517-06-3).
Jason W. Brown, Neuropsychological Foundations of Conscious Experience, 2010 (ISBN 978-2-930517-07-0).
Ronny Desmet and Michel Weber (edited by), Whitehead. The Algebra of Metaphysics. Applied Process Metaphysics Summer Institute Memorandum, 2010 (ISBN 978-2-930517-08-7).
Vincent Berne, Identité et invisibilité du cinéma. Le vide constitutif de l’image dans Hélas pour moi de J.-L. Godard, 2010. (ISBN 978-2-930517-09-4)
Jean-François Gava, Autonomie ou capital. Essai d’éleuthériologie au soir de la domestication totale, 2011. (ISBN 978-2-930517-11-7).
A. N. Whitehead, Les Visées de l’éducation et autres essais, [in preparation].
A. N. Whitehead, Le Principe de relativité, [in preparation].

Contributions to Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

“Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947),” in W. J. Mander and A. P. F. Sell (Senior Editors), Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers, Bristol, Thoemmes Press, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 1236–1241.
“Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947),” in Stuart Brown (General Editor), Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers, Bristol, Thoemmes Press, 2005, Vol. II, pp. 1116–1120.
“Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947),” in Anthony Grayling and Andrew Pyle (eds.), Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, Bristol, Thoemmes Press, 2006, Vol. IV, pp. 3419–3422.

Contributions to Edited Collections

“Principes de la temporalité douloureuse chez Whitehead et Watzlawick,” in Georges Charbonneau and Bernard Granger (under the direction of), Phénoménologie des sentiments corporels. Volume I. Douleur, souffrance, dépression, Paris, Le Cercle herméneutique, 2003, pp. 63–67.
“Foreword” & “The Art of Epochal Change,” in Franz Riffert and Michel Weber (eds.), Searching for New Contrasts. Whiteheadian Contributions to Contemporary Challenges in Neurophysiology, Psychology, Psychotherapy and the Philosophy of Mind, Whitehead Psychology Nexus Studies I, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 7–12 & 252-281.
“Introduction. Process Metaphysics in Context,” in Michel Weber (ed.), After Whitehead: Rescher on Process Metaphysics, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2004, pp. 41–75.
“L'aventure cosmo-théologique,” in François Beets, Michel Dupuis, and Michel Weber (eds.), Alfred North Whitehead. De l’Algèbre universelle à la théologie naturelle. Actes des Journées d’étude internationales tenues à l’Université de Liège les 11-12-13 octobre 2001, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2004, pp. 283–309.
“James’ Non-rationality and its Religious Extremum in the Light of the Concept of Pure Experience,” in Jeremy Carrette (ed.), William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience. A Centenary Celebration, London and New York, Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 2004, pp. 203-220.
“Concepts of Creation and Pragmatics of Creativity,” in Wenyu Xie, Zhihe Wang, George Derfer (eds.), Whitehead and China, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2005, pp. 137–149.
“Avant-Propos,” “Foreword,” “Créativité et réversion conceptuelle” and “Informations réticulaires — Reticular News,” in Michel Weber (under the direction of) and Diane d'Eprémesnil (with the collaboration of), Chromatikon. Annuaire de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2005, pp. 5–16, 17-21, 159-174 and 233-257.
“On Religiousness and Religion. Huxley’s Reading of Whitehead’s Religion in the Making in the Light of James’ Varieties of Religious Experience,” in Jerome Meckier and Bernfried Nugel (eds.), Aldous Huxley Annual. A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond, Volume 5, Münster, LIT Verlag, March 2005, pp. 117-132.
“The hyperdialectics of religiousness and religion” in Michel Weber and Samuel Rouvillois (eds.), L’Expérience de Dieu. Lectures de Religion in the Making, Actes du troisième Colloque international Chromatiques whiteheadiennes, Paris, Aletheia. Revue de formation philosophique, théologique et spirituelle, 2006, pp. 115–136.
“Avant-propos,” “Foreword” & “The organic turn: From simple location to complex (dis)location,” in François Beets, Michel Dupuis, Michel Weber (eds.), La Science et le monde moderne d’Alfred North Whitehead — Alfred North Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Chromatiques whiteheadiennes III, 2006, pp. 11–16 & 97-118.
“Les enjeux d’une théologie africaine caractérisée et consistante,” in Léonard Santedi Kinkupu and Modeste Malu Nyimi (under the direction of), Épistémologie et théologie. Les enjeux du dialogue foi-science-éthique pour l’avenir de l’humanité. Mélanges en l’honneur de S. Exc. Mgr Tharcisse Tshibangu Tshishiku pour ses 70 ans d’âge et ses 35 ans d’épiscopat. Ouvrage publié avec le concours de la Fondation Evangelii nuntiandi in Africa et la Faculté de Théologie de la Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kinshasa, Éditions des Facutlés catholiques, Recherches africaines de théologie. Travaux de la Faculté de Théologie, 2006, pp. 615–623.
“Creativity, Efficacy and Vision: Ethics and Psychology in an Open Universe” in Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (eds.), Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality, Frankfurt/Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Process Thought XIV, 2006, pp. 263–281.
“Avant-propos” & “Informations réticulaires,” in Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (under the direction of), Chromatikon II. Annuaire de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2006, pp. 5–14 & 281-290.
“PNK's Creative Advance from Formal to Existential Ontology,” in Guillaume Durand and Michel Weber (eds.), Les Principes de la connaissance naturelle d’Alfred North Whitehead — Alfred North Whitehead’s Principles of Natural Knowledge, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Chromatiques whiteheadiennes IX, 2007, pp. 259–273.
“James’s Mystical Body in the Light of the Transmarginal Field of Consciousness,” in Sergio Franzese & Felicitas Krämer (eds.), Fringes of Religious Experience. Cross-perspectives on William James's Varieties of Religious Experience, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Process Thought XII, 2007, pp. 7–37.
“Éléments d’herméneutique whiteheadienne” & “Conclusions — Les exigences de la philosophie de l’événement” in Benoît Bourgine, David Ongombe, Michel Weber (eds.), Religions, sciences, politiques. Regards croisés sur Alfred North Whitehead. Actes du colloque international tenu à l’Université de Louvain les 31 mai, 1 et 2 juin 2006. Publiés avec le concours du FNRS, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Chromatiques whiteheadiennes VI, 2007, pp. 13–32 and 209-220.
“From the Grown Organism to Organic Growth,” in Mark Dibben and Thomas Kelly (eds.), Applied Process Thought I: Initial Explorations in Theory & Research, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Process Thought XVI, 2008, pp. 149–168.
“Avant-propos,” “Foreword” & “Contact Made Vision: The Apocryphal Whitehead” in Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (under the direction of), Chromatikon III. Annuaire de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2007, pp. 5–24 & pp. 229–260.
“Perennial Truth and Perpetual Perishing. A. Huxley’s Worldview in the Light of A. N. Whitehead’s Process Philosophy of Time,” in Bernfried Nugel, Uwe Rasch and Gerhard Wagner (eds.), Aldous Huxley, Man of Letters: Thinker, Critic and Artist, Proceedings of the Third International Aldous Huxley Symposium Riga 2004, Münster, LIT, “Human Potentialities”, Band 9, 2007, pp. 31–45.
“Introduction,” “Hypnosis: Panpsychism in Action,” “Contact Made Vision: The Apocryphal Whitehead,” “Christiana Morgan (1897–1967),” “Jean Wahl (1888–1974),” in Michel Weber and William Desmond, Jr. (eds.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Process Thought X1 & X2, 2008, I, pp. 15–38, 395-414, 573-599; II, pp. 465–468, 640-642.
“Rescher on Process,” in Robert Almeder (ed.), Rescher Studies. A Collection of Essays on the Philosophical Work of Nicholas Rescher. Presented to Him on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2008, 429-444.
“Pragmatic Anarchy in A. N. Whitehead,” in Peter Hare, Michel Weber, James Swindler, Oana-Maria Pastae, Cerasel Cuteanu (eds.), Democracy, Liberalism and the Relevance of (Neo-)Pragmatism for the Constituting of Political Ideologies — Interdisciplinary Approaches. Proceedings of the International Conference the College of Letters and Social Sciences of the Constantin Brâncuşi University, Sept. 28/Oct. 3, 2007, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008,
“The Urizen of Whiteheadian Process Thought,” in Mark Dibben and Rebecca Newton (eds.), Applied Process Thought II: Following a Trail Ablaze, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Process Thought XXI, 2009, pp. 61–73.

Articles in Philosophical Journals

“An Argumentation for Contiguism,” Streams of William James, Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 1999, pp. 14–16.
“The Polysemiality of the Concept of “Pure Experience”,” Streams of William James, Volume 1, Issue 2, Fall 1999, pp. 4-6.
“James’ Contiguism of “Pure Experience”,” Streams of William James, Volume 1, Issue 3, Winter 1999, pp. 19-22.
“Polysemiality, Style and Arationality,” Streams of William James, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2000, pp. 1–4.
“Whitehead’s Axiomatization of the Contiguism of “Pure Feeling”,” Streams of William James, Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall 2000, pp. 9-13.
“The Assassination of the Diadoches,” Streams of William James, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2001, pp. 13–18.
“Huaidehai de shijiansheng zhi sanceng genyuan” [“The Threefold Root of Whiteheadian Temporality,” translated into Mandarin by Liu Shu-Min], in Chang yu you: zhongwai zhexue de bijiao yu rongtong, Volume VI, February 2002, pp. 163–181.
“Whitehead’s Reading of James and Its Context (Part I),” Streams of William James, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 2002, pp. 18–22
“Jason W. Brown’s Microgenetic Theory: Reflections and Prospects,” Neuro-psychoanalysis, Volume 4, No 1, 2002, pp. 117–118.
“Whitehead’s Reading of James and Its Context (Part II),” Streams of William James, Volume 5, Issue 3, Fall 2003, pp. 26–31.
“Sense-Perception in Current Process Thought. A Workshop Report” [with Anderson Weekes], in Harald Atmanspacher (ed.), Mind and Matter, Volume I, Issue 1, Freiburg, Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V., December 2003, pp. 121–127.
“The Whitehead Psychology Nexus: Towards New Synergies of Philosophy and Psychology” [with Anderson Weekes], Acta Neuropsychologica, Volume 1, Number 4, 2003, pp. 449–462.
“La virtualité en procès. Relativisation de l’acte et de la puissance chez A. N. Whitehead,” Revue internationale de Philosophie, vol. 61 n° 236, juin 2006, pp. 223–241.
“La vie de la Nature selon le dernier Whitehead,” Les Études philosophiques, sept. 2006, T. 60, Vol. 3, pp. 395–408.
“Alfred North Whitehead's onto-epistemology of perception,” New Ideas in Psychology, 24, 2006, pp. 117–132.
“L’épreuve de la philosophie,” Diotime. Revue internationale de didactique de la philosophie, 33, June 2007
“КОНТИНУИЗЪМ И КОНТИГУИЗЪМ” (“Continuité et contiguité,” translated into Bulgurarian by Vesselin Petrov], Философски алтернативи, 4/2007, pp. 125–139.
“Les enjeux de la pratique philosophique,” Diotime. Revue internationale de didactique de la philosophie, 34, décembre 2007
“Ancorare istorică a practicii filosofice whiteheadiene,” Analele Universităţii “Constantin Brâncuşi” din Târgu Jiu, Seria Litere şi Ştiinţe Sociale, Nr. 1/2008, pp. 276–288.
“Uriyen în procesul de gândire al lui Whitehead,” Analele Universităţii “Constantin Brâncuşi” din Târgu Jiu, Seria Litere şi Ştiinţe Sociale, Nr. 2/2008, pp. 37–52.
“Individu et société selon Whitehead,” Art du comprendre, N°18, Paris, 2009, pp. 167–182.
“Whitehead et James: conditions de possibilité et sources historiques d'un dialogue systématique,” in A. Benmakhlouf and S. Poinat (ed.), Quine, Whitehead, et leurs contemporains, Noesis, 13, 2009, pp. 251–268.
“O pragmatismo de Whitehead,” translated by Susana de Castro, in Redescrições, São Paulo, Centro de Estudos em Filosofia Americana, Ano 1 Número 1, 2009.
"Much Ado About Duckspeak," Balkan Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2011, pp. 135-142.
"Whitehead's creative advance from formal to existential ontology," Logique et Analyse, 54/214, juin 2011, Special Issue on Whitehead’s Early Work, pp. 127-133.

Authored Critical Reviews

“Isabelle Stengers, L'Effet Whitehead [Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, Annales de l'Institut de Philosophie de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1994]. Critical Review,” Process Studies, 23/4, 1994, pp. 282–284.
“Alfred North Whitehead, Procès et réalité. Essai de cosmologie. Traduit de l'anglais par Daniel Charles, Maurice Elie, Michel Fuchs, Jean-Luc Gautero, Dominique Janicaud, Robert Sasso and Arnaud Villani [Paris, NRF Éditions Gallimard, Bibliothèque de philosophie, 1995]. Critical Review,” Process Studies, 27/1-2, 1998, pp. 149–151.
“Recent publications in French” & “Recent publications in English,” in James A. Bradley, André Cloots, Helmut Maaßen and Michel Weber (eds.), European Studies in Process Thought, Vol. I. In Memoriam Dorothy Emmet, Leuven, European Society for Process Thought, 2003, pp. 53–57.
“Luca Gaeta, Segni del cosmo. Logica e geometria in Whitehead, Milano, Edizioni Universitare di Lettere Economica Diritto, Il Filarete CCX, 2002,” Zentralblatt MATH, European Mathematical Society, Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe & Springer-Verlag, 1024.01009.
“Ivor Grattan-Guinness, “Algebras, Projective Geometry, Mathematical Logic, and Constructing the World. Intersections in the Philosophy of Mathematics of A.N. Whitehead”, Historia Mathematica 29, N° 4, 2002, pp. 427–462,” Zentralblatt MATH, European Mathematical Society, Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe & Springer-Verlag, 01891821.
“Jean Wahl, Vers le concret. Études d’histoire de la philosophie contemporaine. William James, Whitehead, Gabriel Marcel. Avant-propos de Mathias Girel. Deuxième édition augmentée [Vrin, 1932], Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2004. Critical Review,” Process Studies, 34/1, 2005, pp. 155–156.
“Hans W. Cohn, Heidegger and the Roots of Existential Therapy, London, Continuum, 2002, SPC Series. Critical Review,” The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, volume 36/3, October 2005, pp. 336–337.
“Roger Frie (ed.), Understanding Experience. Psychotherapy and Postmodernism, London, Routledge, 2003. Critical Review,” The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Volume 37/1, January 2006, pp. 109–111.
“Jean Wahl, Vers le concret. Études d’histoire de la philosophie contemporaine. William James, Whitehead, Gabriel Marcel. Avant-propos de Mathias Girel. Deuxième édition augmentée [Vrin, 1932], Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2004. Compte rendu critique,” Revue internationale de Philosophie, vol. 61 n° 236, Juin 2006, pp. 246–248.
“Discussion: The Genocidal Logic of Neoliberalism [à propos de Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, New York, ICM Books, 2007],” in Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (under the direction of), Chromatikon IV. Annuaire de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2008, pp. 199–207.
“Nicholas Rescher, Autobiography, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, Nicholas Rescher Collected Papers. Supplementary Volume, 2007. Critical Review,” Process Studies 37.2, 2008, pp. 211–213.

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