Andrew M. Davis is program director for the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology.Roland Faber is Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb Jr. Professor of process studies at the Claremont School of Theology.

This is a unique, fascinating, and unprecedented collection of cross-disciplinary essays on extraterrestrial life and intelligence. It is also an unusually coherent anthology. Its editors have asked the contributors to say whether and how A. N. Whitehead's "process thought," known for its adventurous and hopeful integration of science, cosmology, philosophy, and religious thought, might illuminate the possible discovery of living and thinking beings elsewhere in our universe—and even in a possibly larger plurality of worlds. In these diverse and well-crafted chapters, readers will discover scientifically informed, philosophically sophisticated, and theologically interesting explorations of a topic that will become increasingly important for years to come.

• List of FiguresForeword by Timothy E. Eastman Acknowledgments by Roland FaberIntroduction: Process Philosophy and Extraterrestrial Life: Past, Present, and Future by Andrew M. DavisPart I: Astrophilosophy1. Prospects for a Universal Philosophy of Organism: Some Initial Reflections by Derek Malone-France2. The Cosmological Context of the Origin of Life: Process Philosophy and the Hot Spring Hypothesis by Matthew David Segall and Bruce Damer3. The Organic Universe and Otherworldly Lives: Bergson and Sagan by Wahida Khandker4. The Connection-Action Principle: A Basis for Process Philosophy, Cosmic Creativity, and Value? by Mark Lupisella5. Astrobiological Searches for Life and Shared Knowledge by Chelsea HaramiaPart II: Exotheology6. Evolution Connected to Theory of Value by Process-Relational Astrotheology and Cosmotheology by Theodore Walker Jr.7. Astrobiology, Astrotheology, and Cosmic Consciousness by Ted Peters8. Astrobiology, Cosmotheology, and the Biological Universe: Implications for Religion and Theology by Steven J. Dick9. From Negation to Exemplification: A Deeper Whiteheadian Cosmotheology by Andrew M. DavisPart III: Cosmic Religion10. Religious Belief and the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life: What’s Worldview Got to Do with It? by Constance M. Bertka11. “Worlds as Numerous as the Grains of Sand of the Ganges”: Cosmic Pluralism and Swami Vivekananda’s Religion of the Future by Jeffery D. Long12. Multiplicity without Tyranny: The Nonviolent Aim in Jainism and Whitehead’s Process Metaphysics by Brianne Donaldson13. Extending the Noosphere into Intergalactic Life: Teilhard de Chardin and the Third Axial Age by Ilia Delio14. Astrobiology without Biology: Will AI be Our Emissary or Our Bottleneck? by Noreen Herzfeld15. A Darker Forest? The Fermi Paradox and Extraterrestrial Spiritual Life by Roland FaberEpilogue: Theological Reflections on Extraterrestrial Life (1968) by Lewis S. Ford

Andrew M. Davis is program director for the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology.Roland Faber is Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb Jr. Professor of process studies at the Claremont School of Theology.

This is a unique, fascinating, and unprecedented collection of cross-disciplinary essays on extraterrestrial life and intelligence. It is also an unusually coherent anthology. Its editors have asked the contributors to say whether and how A. N. Whitehead's "process thought," known for its adventurous and hopeful integration of science, cosmology, philosophy, and religious thought, might illuminate the possible discovery of living and thinking beings elsewhere in our universe—and even in a possibly larger plurality of worlds. In these diverse and well-crafted chapters, readers will discover scientifically informed, philosophically sophisticated, and theologically interesting explorations of a topic that will become increasingly important for years to come.

• List of FiguresForeword by Timothy E. Eastman Acknowledgments by Roland FaberIntroduction: Process Philosophy and Extraterrestrial Life: Past, Present, and Future by Andrew M. DavisPart I: Astrophilosophy1. Prospects for a Universal Philosophy of Organism: Some Initial Reflections by Derek Malone-France2. The Cosmological Context of the Origin of Life: Process Philosophy and the Hot Spring Hypothesis by Matthew David Segall and Bruce Damer3. The Organic Universe and Otherworldly Lives: Bergson and Sagan by Wahida Khandker4. The Connection-Action Principle: A Basis for Process Philosophy, Cosmic Creativity, and Value? by Mark Lupisella5. Astrobiological Searches for Life and Shared Knowledge by Chelsea HaramiaPart II: Exotheology6. Evolution Connected to Theory of Value by Process-Relational Astrotheology and Cosmotheology by Theodore Walker Jr.7. Astrobiology, Astrotheology, and Cosmic Consciousness by Ted Peters8. Astrobiology, Cosmotheology, and the Biological Universe: Implications for Religion and Theology by Steven J. Dick9. From Negation to Exemplification: A Deeper Whiteheadian Cosmotheology by Andrew M. DavisPart III: Cosmic Religion10. Religious Belief and the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life: What’s Worldview Got to Do with It? by Constance M. Bertka11. “Worlds as Numerous as the Grains of Sand of the Ganges”: Cosmic Pluralism and Swami Vivekananda’s Religion of the Future by Jeffery D. Long12. Multiplicity without Tyranny: The Nonviolent Aim in Jainism and Whitehead’s Process Metaphysics by Brianne Donaldson13. Extending the Noosphere into Intergalactic Life: Teilhard de Chardin and the Third Axial Age by Ilia Delio14. Astrobiology without Biology: Will AI be Our Emissary or Our Bottleneck? by Noreen Herzfeld15. A Darker Forest? The Fermi Paradox and Extraterrestrial Spiritual Life by Roland FaberEpilogue: Theological Reflections on Extraterrestrial Life (1968) by Lewis S. Ford