Nature naturing and the Will

Good post by Corrington.

http://ecstaticnaturalism.blogspot.com/2011/08/nature-naturing-and-will.html

Wisconsin travel blog (post 3)

Wisconsin travel blog (post 2)

Wisconsin is AMAZING. A nature lover's dream come true (esp Boulder Junction, Wildcat Mountain, Nicolet National Forest, and Black River State Forest). More soon ...

Wisconsin travel blog (post 1)

Leaving the Pennsylvania Wilds ...

Hartshorne on internal and external relations

Charles Hartshorne has defined his philosophy as the "social view of reality." Elsewhere he has termed it "Realistic Idealism." Two fundamental principles underlie this philosophy: the plurality of events and the primacy of subjectivity or inclusion. Intrinsic to these principles are Hartshorne’s view of internal and external relations.

Read the article HERE.

Maine trip 2011 photos are now uploaded

Maine trip 2011 photos are now uploaded HERE.

Whitehead's God and powers: a response to "subjectalism"

The shift is from the human (anthropological) to the object (cosmological), wherein "subjectivity" (potency, powers) may be identified but never exhausted. "The subjectivity in question here is, of course, not only human subjectivity but the subjectivity of every actual occasion constituting all the things of this world."

Joseph Bracken, "Whitehead and Roman Catholics: What Went Wrong?" American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 30, no. 2 (May 2009), 153-167.

Corrington's critique of process theism

"An Appraisal and Critique of Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality--corrected edition (1929 & 1978) and Justus Buchler's Metaphysics of Natural Complexes--second, expanded edition (1966 & 1990)" 
 

"Toward a Transformation of Neoclassical Theism," International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Winter 1987): 391-406.

Whitehead and the Question of God

Is God indispensable to Whitehead's metaphysics? The following article attempts to answer that question (pp. 666-669) as well as clarify Whitehead's relationship to Catholicism.

Norman Pittenger, "Whitehead and 'Catholicism'" Theological Studies 32 (1971): 659-70.

Whitehead's concept of importance and James' "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings"

"Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness to him who lives it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up with the motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions, sometimes with the imagination, sometimes with reflective thought. But, wherever it is found, there is the zest, the tingle, the excitement of reality; and there is 'importance' in the only real and positive sense in which importance ever anywhere can be." 

- William James, "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings"

"Whitehead on the Concept of 'Importance'" by Ross Stanway; published in Process Studies Vol. 21, No. 4 (1992):  235-249.