Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind

Michel Weber is Director of the Center for Philosophical Practice "Chromatiques whiteheadiennes," Brussels, and author of Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics. Anderson Weekes is an independent scholar and an educational consultant in New York.

"…process thought needs a book like this … The authors engage richly with the history of western philosophy, contemporary analytic philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, creating a fine meshwork of connections in which the process approach stands out in vivid contrast with modern alternatives, while at the same time making sense of its perennial minority status." — American Journal of Theology and Philosophy"Weber and Weekes have produced a volume of essays that fills a lacuna in the Whitehead literature, namely, A. N. Whitehead's process approach to consciousness and its relevance to contemporary consciousness studies … Contributors include an international lineup of philosophers, biologists, psychologists, and neurologists." — CHOICE"Weber's and Weekes's collection shows that Whitehead paves the way to a new philosophy of mind that reorients all the currently debated issues and in particular enables us to root psychotherapy in processes hitherto ignored because they belong to an order of reality that eludes scientific observation." — Jean-Marie Breuvart, Professor of Philosophy (retired), Université Catholique de Lille

• List of Figures and TablesKey to Abbreviations of Whitehead’s WorkIntroductionMichel Weber and Anderson WeekesPart I. Setting the Stage 1. Process Thought as a Heuristic for Investigating ConsciousnessMichel Weber and Anderson Weekes2. Whitehead as a Neglected Figure of Twentieth-Century PhilosophyMichel Weber and Anderson Weekes3. Consciousness as a Topic of Investigation in Western ThoughtAnderson Weekes4. Whitehead’s Unique Approach to the Topic of ConsciousnessAnderson WeekesPart II. Psychology and Philosophy of Mind 5. Consciousness as Subjective Form: Whitehead’s Nonreductionist NaturalismDavid Griffin6. The Interpretation and Integration of the Literature on Consciousness from a Process PerspectiveMichael Katzko7. Windows on Nonhuman MindsDonald Redfield GriffinPart III. From Metaphysics to (Neuro)Science (and Back Again) 8. Panexperientialism, Quantum Theory, and NeuroplasticityGeorge W. Shields9. The Evolution of ConsciousnessMax Velmans10. The Carrier Theory of CausationGregg RosenbergPart IV. Clinical Applications: Consciousness as Process 11. The Microgenetic Revolution in Contemporary Neuropsychology and NeurolinguisticsMaria Pachalska and Bruce Duncan MacQueen12. From Coma to Consciousness: Recovery and the Process of DifferentiationAvraham Schweiger, Michael Frost, and Ofer Keren13. Consciousness and Rationality from a Process PerspectiveMichel WeberPart V. History (and Future?) of Philosophy 14. Consciousness, Memory, and Recollection According to WhiteheadXavier Verley15. Consciousness and Causation in Whitehead’s Phenomenology of BecomingAnderson WeekesList of ContributorsIndex