https://www.chromatika.org/ fr SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.chromatika.org/IMG/siteon0.jpg?1382563252 https://www.chromatika.org/ 156 144 https://www.chromatika.org/spip.php?article118 https://www.chromatika.org/spip.php?article118 2018-11-20T17:13:16Z text/html fr Michel <p>Concepts of « now » in process ontology and psychopathology <br class='autobr' /> Fontarèches (Avignon), April 6th to April 10th <br class='autobr' /> Dear Colleagues and Friends, The 2019 Whitehead Psychology Nexus Workshop will focus on the issue of lived temporality in process (lato sensu) ontology and psychopathology. <br class='autobr' /> We seek to gather two types of provocative communications : on the one hand, philosophical discussions of the present state of affairs in psychology ; and, on the other hand, critical studies of the relevance of the (...)</p> - <a href="https://www.chromatika.org/spip.php?rubrique37" rel="directory">Whitehead Psychology Nexus</a> <div class='rss_texte'><p>Concepts of « now » in process ontology and psychopathology</p> <p>Fontarèches (Avignon), April 6th to April 10th</p> <p>Dear Colleagues and Friends, The 2019 Whitehead Psychology Nexus Workshop will focus on the issue of lived temporality in process (lato sensu) ontology and psychopathology.</p> <p>We seek to gather two types of provocative communications : on the one hand, philosophical discussions of the present state of affairs in psychology ; and, on the other hand, critical studies of the relevance of the imaginative generalizations of Whitehead for psychology and/or of the impact contemporary psychology on Whitehead's system of thought. There is no inscription fee ; boarding and accomodation are provided ; there is a limited amount of travel subsidies available. Papers proposals should be sent to weber@chromatika.org. The deadline is Dec. 20 Confirmation of acceptance will be made no later than Jan. 1st.
Papers will be selected according to their relevance to the WPN project (see *) and to the 2019 focus.</p> <p> * The Whitehead Psychology Nexus is an international open forum dedicated to the cross-examination of Alfred North Whitehead's “organic” or “process” philosophy and the various facets of the contemporary psychological field of research and debate. It seeks to encourage psychology in a Whiteheadian atmosphere and Whiteheadian scholarship informed by psychology. Bold speculations balanced by “complete humility before logic, and before fact” (Process and Reality, 17) are especially valued. “It is a disease of philosophy,” stresses Whitehead, “when it is neither bold nor humble, but merely a reflection of the temperamental presuppositions of exceptional personalities” (PR17). Openness (as in “open forum”) means here—at the very least—two things. With regard to the focus of the evoked cross-elucidation : no philosophical or psychological system of thought is a priori excluded, provided that it allows discussion in a Whiteheadian spirit. Whitehead claimed that “to sustain a civilization with the intensity of its first ardour requires more than learning. Adventure is essential, namely, the search for new perfections” (Adventures of Ideas, 258).
</p> <p>The Whitehead Psychology Nexus Workshops were launched in 2002 in Fontarèches. (See the _Orpheus' Glance. Selected papers on process psychology : the Fontarèches meetings, 2002–2017_ : <a href="https://www.academia.edu/37017071/Orpheus_Glance._Selected_papers_on_process_psychology" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>https://www.academia.edu/37017071/Orpheus_Glance._Selected_papers_on_process_psychology</a> & <a href="http://www.chromatika.org/spip/spip.php?article44" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.chromatika.org/spip/spip.php?article44</a>.)
</p></div> https://www.chromatika.org/spip.php?article103 https://www.chromatika.org/spip.php?article103 2012-10-06T06:31:30Z text/html fr Michel <p>The _Whitehead Psychology Nexus_ is organizing next April 3-5 its 2013 meeting in Fontarèches (near Avignon, France) : Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology and Philosophy of Mind. Twenty research seminars will be devoted to some aspects of the potential synergies existing between Whiteheadian process thought and the various facets of the contemporary psychological field. <br class='autobr' /> Fontarèches is a little town near Nîmes (30 mins), Arles (40 mins) and Aix-en-Provence (a little over an (...)</p> - <a href="https://www.chromatika.org/spip.php?rubrique37" rel="directory">Whitehead Psychology Nexus</a> <div class='rss_texte'><p>The _Whitehead Psychology Nexus_ is organizing next April 3-5 its 2013 meeting in Fontarèches (near Avignon, France) : Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology and Philosophy of Mind. Twenty research seminars will be devoted to some aspects of the potential synergies existing between Whiteheadian process thought and the various facets of the contemporary psychological field.</p> <p>Fontarèches is a little town near Nîmes (30 mins), Arles (40 mins) and Aix-en-Provence (a little over an hour), that can be easily reached with Ryanair (Nîmes airport) or the TGV [high speed train] (Avignon, 40 mins). Participants will be picked upon arrival and driven for their departure.</p> <p>« Our court shall be a little academe,<br class='autobr' /> Still and contemplative in living art » — W. Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act I, Scene 1.</p> <h3 class="spip">Wed., April 3</h3> <p>1630/1700 : tea & welcome by Jason W. Brown</p> <p>1700/1745 : Bogdan Rusu (Paris I Sorbonne) : Feeling : From British Psychology to Whitehead's Metaphysics</p> <p>1745/1830 : Luca Vanzago (Università di Pavia) : The nature of intentionality and the intentionality in nature. A reflection on Whitehead's conception of experience</p> <p>1830/1915 : Denys Zhadyaev (State University, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) : The Notion of Balance</p> <p>1915/2015 : light dinner</p> <p>2015/2100 : Riccardo Manzotti (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milano) : A process model for dream and hallucinations</p> <p>2100/2145 : Aljoscha Berve (Düsseldorf Universität) : Subject, enduring percipient, ego-object : structure and capacity of the human individual in the philosophy of organism</p> <h3 class="spip">Thurs., April 4</h3> <p>0730/0830 : breakfast</p> <p>0830/0915 : Jason W. Brown (New York University Medical Center) : Subjective time and the continuity of the mental life</p> <p>0915/1030 : Simon Lehel Alpár (University of Debrecen, Hungary), Levente Szilágyi (University of Debrecen), Ella Csikós (Eötvös University, Budapest) and Anna Csetverikov (University of Debrecen) : Whitehead's categoreal scheme as a Socialpsychiatric Game from Autists to Reality</p> <p>1030/1100 : coffee</p> <p>1100/1145 : Maria-Teresa Teixeira (Universidade de Lisboa), The relevance of process philosophy to psychology and philosophy of mind</p> <p>1145/1230 : David T. Bradford (Neuropsychologist, Austin, Texas) : A Process Perspective on Mystical States of Awareness</p> <p>1230/1430 : lunch</p> <p>1430/1515 : Harald Atmanspacher (Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg) : Mind-Matter Correlations in Dual-Aspect Monism</p> <p>1515/1600 : Hans-Ferdinand Angel (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) : Creditions—processes of believing. Questions regarding their foundation in a theory of process</p> <p>1600/1630 : tea</p> <p>1630/1715 : Gary Goldberg (Medical College of Virginia) & Don Tucker (University of Oregon) : An Evolutionary-Developmental Neuroscience for Whitehead's Theory of Prehension and Learning ; How Dual Premotor Systems in the Brain May Generate Novel Behavior and Actualize Choice through Creative Process</p> <p>1715/1800 : Michael Katzko (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) : A Process Account of Self-Consciousness</p> <p>1800/1845 : Clive Sherlock (Oxford Centre for Mindfulness and Adaptation Practice) : Process approaches to consciousness in psychiatry</p> <p>1900 : dinner</p> <p>2100/2145 : Kurian Kachappilly (Dharmaram College, Bangalore) : tba</p> <h3 class="spip">Fri., April 5</h3> <p>0730/0830 : breakfast</p> <p>0830/0915 : Michel Weber (Centre de philosophie pratique, Brussels) : Shamanism and proto-consciousness</p> <p>0915/1030 : John Pickering (Warwick University) : Interminable signification : a biosemiotic framework for Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze</p> <p>1030/1100 : coffee</p> <p>1100/1145 : Paul Stenner (Open University, London) : Experience, liminality and affectivity : integrating process philosophy (Whitehead), process anthropology (Turner) and psychology without foundations</p> <p>1145/1230 : Ronny Desmet (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) : A Whiteheadian reading of Frankl's logotherapy</p> <p>1230/1430 : lunch</p> <p>1430/1515 : David Roy (The Creative Transformation Institute, Fresno Ca) : Consciousness of the Self</p> <p>1515/1600 : Tina Röck (Universität Innsbruck) : Sense certainty and the concrete in Hegel and Whitehead</p> <p>1600/1630 : tea</p> <p>1630/1715 : Jonathan Weidenbaum (Berkeley College, NYC) : The Self, the Other, and the Creative Advance : How a Whiteheadian Psychology Can Integrate Interpersonal, Existential and Dialogical Accounts of Personal Development</p> <p>1715/1800 : Eleonora Mingarelli (Università di Milano Statale) : Re-thinking the Self. Process Philosophy in Murray and Morgan's Personology</p> <p>1800/1845 : Helmut Maaßen (Düsseldorf Universität) : De origine et natura affectuum in Spinoza and Leibniz</p> <p>1900 : dinner</p></div> https://www.chromatika.org/spip.php?article44 https://www.chromatika.org/spip.php?article44 2011-10-07T13:49:28Z text/html en Michel <p>1. Fontarèches 2002 <br class='autobr' /> May 22 <br class='autobr' /> Jason Brown (New York University Medical Center), « Genetic psychologies and Whiteheadian concrescence » <br class='autobr' /> John Pickering (Psychology Department, Warwick University), « Psychology has regained consciousness but still does not know where it is » <br class='autobr' /> Clive Sherlock (Cambridge Adaptation Centre, and Clare Hall, Cambridge University, U.K.), « My life without me » <br class='autobr' /> May 23 <br class='autobr' /> Michel Weber (Louvain-la-Neuve), « Process phenomenology of consciousness » <br class='autobr' /> Jean-Claude Dumoncel (...)</p> - <a href="https://www.chromatika.org/spip.php?rubrique37" rel="directory">Whitehead Psychology Nexus</a> <div class='rss_texte'><h3 class="spip">1. Fontarèches 2002</h3> <p>May 22</p> <p>Jason Brown (New York University Medical Center), « Genetic psychologies and Whiteheadian concrescence »</p> <p>John Pickering (Psychology Department, Warwick University), « Psychology has regained consciousness but still does not know where it is »</p> <p>Clive Sherlock (Cambridge Adaptation Centre, and Clare Hall, Cambridge University, U.K.), « My life without me »</p> <p>May 23</p> <p>Michel Weber (Louvain-la-Neuve), « Process phenomenology of consciousness »</p> <p>Jean-Claude Dumoncel (Université de Caen), « The Psychology of Propositional Prehensions »</p> <p>May 25 [Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science]</p> <p>Stuart Hameroff (The University of Arizona, Tucson), « Consciousness, Whitehead's "occasions of experience" and modern physics »</p> <h3 class="spip">2. Fontarèches 2003 : Sense-perception in contemporary process thought. Philosophy and Psychology in dialogue</h3> <p>April 22</p> <p>Jason Brown and Michel Weber, « Welcome »</p> <p>Harald Atmanspacher, « A categorial mental states »</p> <p>Richard Carvalho, « Matte Blanco and the Logic of Emotion and Unconscious Process »</p> <p>Franz Riffert, « Whitehead, science and perception »</p> <p>Jason Brown, « Whitehead's theory of time in relation to the microgenetic concept of the present »</p> <p>Detlef Linke, « Religion and Personal Identity »</p> <p>Bruce Duncan MacQueen, « Being and becoming in Greek philosophy: from Heraclitus to Plato »</p> <p>April 23, 2003</p> <p>Michel Weber, « Whitehead's Analysis of Perception: From Macro to Microscopic perspectives »</p> <p>Aleksandra Blachnio, « Future orientation of the self-authoring personality »</p> <p>Marta Moritz, « Fixing the fluid past: neurotic personality »</p> <p>Ludmila Zajac, « Temporal frameworks in the dynamics of Self-Authoring »</p> <p>Clive Sherlock, « Thoughts without a thinker: process psychology of perception »</p> <p>Timothy Sprigge , « Whitehead's philosophy of space »</p> <p>John Pickering, « On the separation of fact and value »</p> <p>Jean-Claude Dumoncel, « Percept and Perspectives: the Psychology of Perception according to Hintikka and Whitehead »</p> <p>B. Kaczmarek, « Language and mind »</p> <p>Jean-Marie Breuvart, « Physiological and esthetical functions of the human body according to Adventures of Ideas »</p> <h3 class="spip">3. Avignon 2004 : The unity of knowledge and action</h3> <p>April 14</p> <p>Warren G. Frisina, « Knowledge, Action and the Organicist Turn »</p> <p>Jason Brown, « Microgenesis and Knowledge »</p> <p>Michel Weber, « Panexperientialism in Action »</p> <p>Michael W. Katzko, « Some Remarks »</p> <p>Bruce Duncan MacQueen, « Erotic neoteny in Longus's Daphnis and Chloe »</p> <p>April 15</p> <p>Slawek T., « Actors and re-actors: action in Blake »</p> <p>Knapik H., « Disturbances of action in patients with dementia »</p> <p>Pachalska M. « Discontinuity in the perception—action cycle »</p> <h3 class="spip">4. Seoul 2004</h3> <p>Donald C. Bellomy (Sogang University), « From Hierarchy to Process: The Quest for Unfied Knowledge in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries »</p> <p>Wolfgang Fach and Harald Atmanspacher (Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health), « Stability Properties and Phenomenal Characterization of Acategorial Mental States »</p> <p>Richard Noll (DeSales University), « C. G. Jung, A. N. Whitehead and the Vitalsitic Zeitgeist »</p> <p>John Pickering (Warwick), « Mental Life is Organic, Not Mechanistic »</p> <p>Michel Weber (Chromatiques), « Western Psychotherapies and Eastern Worldviews in the Light of Whitehead's Anthropology »</p> <p>Robert S. Corrington (Drew University), « From the Process Self to the Ecstatic Self: Pantheism Reconsidered »</p> <p>Detlef B. Linke, (Professor of neurology at Bonn Universität), « Brain and Process »</p> <p>Ko Hojo (The Philosophy of Science Society, Japan, and The International Society of Philosophy of Chemistry), « The Self Consciousness: The Philosophy of Kitaro Nishida »</p> <p>Kim Seong-nae (Sogang University), « The Fortune-seeking Mentality in the Korean Shamanistic Tradition »</p> <p>Sang Bok Lee (School of Theology, Kangnam University), « Process Group Dynamics: An Integration of Whitehead's Process Metaphysics and Bion's Idea of Group Dynamics »</p> <p>Yoshihiro Hayashi (Kyoto University Graduate School), « Existence and Cosmos: Linking Frankl and Whitehead »</p> <p>Huyn Moon Kim (Hanseo University), « Ken Wilber and A.N. Whitehead »</p> <p>Bogdan Ogrodnik (University of Silesia), « The Metaphysical Structure of Zen Practice of Koan as a Model of Process of Psychotherapy »</p> <h3 class="spip">5. Sorbonne 2004</h3> <p>Michel Weber (Louvain-la-Neuve), « James and Whitehead on the Rationality of Consciousness »</p> <p>Timothy L. S. Sprigge (Edinburgh), « Radical Empiricism versus the Absolute »</p> <p>Michael Katzko (Nijmegen), « James, Whitehead and the concept of self in contemporary psychology</p> <p>Julian Piras (Saarbrücken), « Complexity »</p> <p>Craig Eisendrath (Philadelphia), « The Unifying Moment: The Psychological Philosophy of William James and Alfred North Whitehead »</p> <p>Avraham Schweiger (Tel Aviv), « The nervous system as the embodiment of concrescence and of the specious present: A process approach to neurophysiology »</p> <p>John Pickering (Warwick), « Nature and Life —the living bridge between Whitehead and James »</p> <h3 class="spip">6. Katowice 2005</h3> <p>Jacek Drozdz (University of Silesia), THE STRUCTURE AND ORIGIN OF TIME IN THE PHENOMONOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS OF MAX SCHELER</p> <p>Levent Kavas (Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Turkey), NO THOUGHT IS THOUGHT TWICE</p> <p>Bruce Duncan MacQueen (Department of Neurolinguistics, College of Medicine in Bydgoszcz, Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun), SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND TIME STRUCTURE FROM A MICROGENETIC PERSPECTIVE</p> <p>Maria Pachalska (Institute of Psychology, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland and Center for Cognition and Communication, New York, NY, USA), TIME AND MEMORY: A MICROGENETIC APPROACH</p> <p>Bogdan Ogrodnik (University of Silesia, Katowice), MAN AMID THE HIERARCHY OF THE PRESENT MOMENTS OF TIME: A SKETCH OF THE PROCESS METAPHYSICS OF THE MENTAL WORLD</p> <p>Mare Piwowarczyk (Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin), ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ROOTS OF WHITEHEAD'S EPOCHAL THEORY OF BECOMING</p> <p>Karolina Sekuka (Catholic University of Lublin), ETERNALISM VS. RADICAL TEMPORALISM: TWO PANPSYCHIC CONCEPTIONS OF THE PAST</p> <p>Michel Weber (Chromatiques), THE CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE OF TIME AND THE TIME OF CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE</p> <h3 class="spip">7. Fontarèches 2013</h3> <p>Wed., April 3 1630/1700 : tea & welcome by Jason W. Brown</p> <p>1700/1745 : Bogdan Rusu (Paris I Sorbonne) : Feeling : From British Psychology to Whitehead's Metaphysics</p> <p>1745/1830 : Luca Vanzago (Università di Pavia) : The nature of intentionality and the intentionality in nature. A reflection on Whitehead's conception of experience</p> <p>1830/1915 : Denys Zhadyaev (State University, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) : The Notion of Balance</p> <p>1915/2015 : light dinner</p> <p>2015/2100 : Riccardo Manzotti (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milano) : A process model for dream and hallucinations</p> <p>2100/2145 : Aljoscha Berve (Düsseldorf Universität) : Subject, enduring percipient, ego-object : structure and capacity of the human individual in the philosophy of organism</p> <p>Thurs., April 4 0730/0830 : breakfast</p> <p>0830/0915 : Jason W. Brown (New York University Medical Center) : Subjective time and the continuity of the mental life</p> <p>0915/1030 : Simon Lehel Alpár (University of Debrecen, Hungary), Levente Szilágyi (University of Debrecen), Ella Csikós (Eötvös University, Budapest) and Anna Csetverikov (University of Debrecen) : Whitehead's categoreal scheme as a Socialpsychiatric Game from Autists to Reality</p> <p>1030/1100 : coffee</p> <p>1100/1145 : Maria-Teresa Teixeira (Universidade de Lisboa), The relevance of process philosophy to psychology and philosophy of mind</p> <p>1145/1230 : David T. Bradford (Neuropsychologist, Austin, Texas) : A Process Perspective on Mystical States of Awareness</p> <p>1230/1430 : lunch</p> <p>1430/1515 : Harald Atmanspacher (Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg) : Mind-Matter Correlations in Dual-Aspect Monism</p> <p>1515/1600 : Hans-Ferdinand Angel (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) : Creditions—processes of believing. Questions regarding their foundation in a theory of process</p> <p>1600/1630 : tea</p> <p>1630/1715 : Gary Goldberg (Medical College of Virginia) & Don Tucker (University of Oregon) : An Evolutionary-Developmental Neuroscience for Whitehead's Theory of Prehension and Learning ; How Dual Premotor Systems in the Brain May Generate Novel Behavior and Actualize Choice through Creative Process</p> <p>1715/1800 : Michael Katzko (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) : A Process Account of Self-Consciousness</p> <p>1800/1845 : Clive Sherlock (Oxford Centre for Mindfulness and Adaptation Practice) : Process approaches to consciousness in psychiatry</p> <p>1900 : dinner</p> <p>2100/2145 : Kurian Kachappilly (Dharmaram College, Bangalore) : tba</p> <p>Fri., April 5 0730/0830 : breakfast</p> <p>0830/0915 : Michel Weber (Centre de philosophie pratique, Brussels) : Shamanism and proto-consciousness</p> <p>0915/1030 : John Pickering (Warwick University) : Interminable signification : a biosemiotic framework for Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze</p> <p>1030/1100 : coffee</p> <p>1100/1145 : Paul Stenner (Open University, London) : Experience, liminality and affectivity : integrating process philosophy (Whitehead), process anthropology (Turner) and psychology without foundations</p> <p>1145/1230 : Ronny Desmet (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) : A Whiteheadian reading of Frankl's logotherapy</p> <p>1230/1430 : lunch</p> <p>1430/1515 : David Roy (The Creative Transformation Institute, Fresno Ca) : Consciousness of the Self</p> <p>1515/1600 : Tina Röck (Universität Innsbruck) : Sense certainty and the concrete in Hegel and Whitehead</p> <p>1600/1630 : tea</p> <p>1630/1715 : Jonathan Weidenbaum (Berkeley College, NYC) : The Self, the Other, and the Creative Advance : How a Whiteheadian Psychology Can Integrate Interpersonal, Existential and Dialogical Accounts of Personal Development</p> <p>1715/1800 : Eleonora Mingarelli (Università di Milano Statale) : Re-thinking the Self. Process Philosophy in Murray and Morgan's Personology</p> <p>1800/1845 : Helmut Maaßen (Düsseldorf Universität) : De origine et natura affectuum in Spinoza and Leibniz</p> <p>1900 : dinner</p> <h3 class="spip">8. Fontarèches 2014</h3> <p>Saturday 12th.</p> <p>12:00 onwards Arrivals.</p> <p>Sunday 13th.</p> <p>9:00 Welcome and introductions.</p> <p>Section one. Psychology and Religion.</p> <p>10:00 Jason Brown. New York Psychoanalytic Institute.</p> <p>Origins of religious belief.</p> <p>11:00 Helmut Massen. Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.</p> <p>God and creation : The One and the Many.</p> <p>12:00 Break.</p> <p>12:30 Yulia Pazinich. National Mining University, Ukraine.</p> <p>Religious Tolerance and Psychic Health.</p> <p>13:30 Break.</p> <p>Section two. Physics and Biology.</p> <p>15:00 Wendy Wheeler. London Metropolitan University, UK.</p> <p>Process Biology : Biosemiotics, Peirce and Whitehead.</p> <p>16:00 Niel Theise and Menas Kafatos. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.</p> <p>THE SELF ORGANIZING UNIVERSE : Applying complexity theory to the question of panpsychism.</p> <p>17:00 Break.</p> <p>17:30 David Peat. The Pari Center for New Learning, Italy.</p> <p>David Bohm and Whitehead.</p> <p>18:30 John Pickering. Psychology Department, Warwick University, UK.</p> <p>Process Geopolitics.</p> <p>Monday 14th.</p> <p>Section three. Consciousness, Feeling and Culture.</p> <p>09:00 Paul Stenner. Open University, UK.</p> <p>Utmost abstractions of affectivity and their metaphorical bases.</p> <p>10:00 Maria-Theresa Teixeira. Centre for Philosophy, Lisbon University, Portugal.</p> <p>The brain and the unconscious.</p> <p>11:00 Break.</p> <p>11:30 Denis Zhadiaiev. National Mining University, Ukraine.</p> <p>SLEEP PARALYSIS : SOME SCIENTIFIC DATA, PHILOSOPHICAL GENERALIZATIONS, and PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.</p> <p>12:30 Break.</p> <p>15:00 Karen Yan. National Yang Ming University, Taiwan.</p> <p>Process, Consciousness, and Self.</p> <p>16:00 Michel Weber. Centre de philosophie pratique, Brussels.</p> <p>Hopes and contradictions of institutional psychotherapy, with some remarks about Guattari and Deleuze.</p> <p>17:00 Break.</p> <p>17:30 Dialogue.</p> <p>Tuesday 15th.</p> <p>Section four. Process in perspective.</p> <p>9:00 Concluding remarks, prospects and departures.</p> <p>T.B.A. Maria Pachalska</p> <p>Title and place in programme to be announced</p> <h3 class="spip">9. Fontarèches 2015</h3> <p>The Spring Meeting of the Whitehead Psychology Nexus.<br class='autobr' /> Fontareches, March 27 - 30th., 2015.</p> <p>Friday March 27th.</p> <p>7:00 Introductions</p> <p>7:30 Michel Weber <br class='autobr' /> The contemporary relevance of Whitehead.</p> <p>Saturday March 28th.</p> <p>9:00 Terry Deacon<br class='autobr' /> The thermodynamics of sentience: From vegetative to subjective self.</p> <p>10:00 Jason Brown<br class='autobr' /> Mind & Brain: contributions from microgenetic theory.</p> <p>11:00 - 11:30 Break</p> <p>11:30 Jesper Hoffmeyer<br class='autobr' /> Semiotic Individuation: Ernst Cassirer's Challenge.</p> <p>12:30 Spyridon Koutroufinis<br class='autobr' /> Uexküll and Whitehead.</p> <p>1:30 - 3:30 Break</p> <p>3:30 John Deely<br class='autobr' /> Substance, Process, and Relation as the Constituents of Synechism.</p> <p>4:30 Aljoscha Berve<br class='autobr' /> The evolution of the ‘circle of understanding'.</p> <p>5:30 Paul Stenner<br class='autobr' /> Evolutions and revolutions of meaning in Proust, Kierkergaard and Whitehead.</p> <p>6:30 Discussion<br class='autobr' /> Sunday March 29th.</p> <p>9:00 David Bradford<br class='autobr' /> Mystical Process in Ramakrishna's Nirvikalpa Samadhi.</p> <p>10:00 Maria-Teresa Teixeira<br class='autobr' /> Ineffability and mystical knowledge.</p> <p>11:00 - 11:30 Break</p> <p>11:30 Susan Stuart<br class='autobr' /> Interoception, Time and Arithmetic.</p> <p>12:30 Bryony Pierce<br class='autobr' /> Grounding Reasons for Action.</p> <p>1:30 - 3:30 Break</p> <p>3:30 Jeroen van Dijk<br class='autobr' /> Process physics, time and consciousness: nature as an internally meaningful, habit-establishing process.</p> <p>4:30 Maria Pachalska<br class='autobr' /> Neurological diseases in famous painters: destabilization of mental process.</p> <p>5:30 John Pickering<br class='autobr' /> Nature is habit-forming.</p> <p>Monday March 30th.</p> <p>8:30 Plenary</p> <p> Depart</p> <h3 class="spip">9. Fontarèches 2017</h3> <p>Prog. in the making.</p> <p>See also the <a href="http://chromatika.academia.edu/MichelWeber" class='spip_out' rel='external'>academia</a> annoucements.</p></div> https://www.chromatika.org/spip.php?article42 https://www.chromatika.org/spip.php?article42 2011-10-07T13:43:34Z text/html fr Michel <p>According to various contemporary psychological schools, the question of the soul —or “psyche”— is no longer relevant to Psychology's field of expertise. It seems fashionable (more empirico-rational ?) to probe the mind —or “nous”— or even simply the brain. As a result, one can dare to ask if such a discipline ought not to be called a “noology.” Furthermore, the psychological expertise is generally focused on the study and classification of illnesses and corresponding therapies. It is properly (...)</p> - <a href="https://www.chromatika.org/spip.php?rubrique37" rel="directory">Whitehead Psychology Nexus</a> <div class='rss_texte'><p>According to various contemporary psychological schools, the question of the soul —or “psyche”— is no longer relevant to Psychology's field of expertise. It seems fashionable (more empirico-rational ?) to probe the mind —or “nous”— or even simply the brain. As a result, one can dare to ask if such a discipline ought not to be called a “noology.” Furthermore, the psychological expertise is generally focused on the study and classification of illnesses and corresponding therapies. It is properly speaking a nosology that is constantly in danger of giving up the attempt to understand the “healthy” individual.</p> <p>On the other hand, speculative philosophy remains, by definition, the science (the “episteme”) of the psyche : it continues to be a gnosiological adventure in all the dimensions of the human's being in the world. Here dwells, de jure and de facto, the concept of psyche. Furthermore, the very concept of “expertise” is here bypassed to allow a focus on healthy individuals. It is a genuine “hygiology.”</p> <p>This being stated, it is obvious that philosophy so often lacks the pragmatic standpoint —or even interest— in applicability. In Whitehead's terms, it is more focused on logical consistency and/or on the unreachable ideal that is adequacy. On the other hand, psychology, precisely for the sake of its direct applicability, usually cannot afford to question, again and again, its foundations. Immediate therapeutical impact or even quick results packaged for publication may often be the primary goal.</p> <p>There is, in other words, not only room, but urgent need of a philosophy informed by psychology, and of a psychology that is philosophically sound. This evidence is far from being new (let's us think, e.g., of Husserl, James, Merleau-Ponty and of the contemporary pioneering work of K. W. M. Fulford) ; we would like to question it from the vantage point of the imaginative generalizations of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947).</p> <p>From that perspective, the debated question becomes mainly twofold : on the one hand, to assess the present state of Whiteheadian scholarship and of the psychological field —their achievements, hopes and deficiencies— ; on the other hand, to define what could be expected from a synergy with Whitehead —a puzzle that asks not only how psychology's trajectory could be inflected by the gravitation of Whitehead's categoreal framework, but also how the latter could be improved in light of such an interaction.</p> <p>The Whitehead Psychology Nexus is an international open forum dedicated to the cross-examination of Alfred North Whitehead's “organic” or “process” philosophy and the various facets of the contemporary psychological field. It seeks to encourage psychology in a Whiteheadian atmosphere and Whiteheadian scholarship informed by psychology. Bold speculations balanced by “complete humility before logic, and before fact” are especially valued. “It is a disease of philosophy —stresses Whitehead— when it is neither bold nor humble, but merely a reflection of the temperamental presuppositions of exceptional personalities.” (ANW, Process and Reality, p. 17) Openness means here —at the very least— two things. With regard to the focus of the evoked cross-elucidation : no philosophical or psychological system of thought is a priori excluded, provided that they allow discussion in a Whiteheadian spirit.</p> <p>With regard to the membership : ideologies and other forms of dogmatism are the sole contra-indications known at this hour. The Nexus' initial structure is minimalist in order to allow complete freedom of becoming. There will however be a distinction between “active members” and “inactive members”. The former commit themselves to (i) write a paper per year (3000-9000 words) on a topic relevant to the domain of scholarship defined and to (ii) lead discussions on the submitted papers. The latter do not make such commitments ; they are kept aware of the Nexus' activities and participate according to their own agenda. A rather comprehensive understanding of at least one of the two targeted fields —Whiteheadian philosophy and/or a given current in psychology— is expected from the members. The coordinators and the secretary are active members choosing to especially invest themselves in the successful achievement of the purpose of the Nexus. They are two ; their number and identity might fluctuate with time. A private mailing list is the main vector of communication ; conferences and publications are expected in the near future. There are no duties besides those stated above. There is no membership fee. The working language of the Nexus is English.</p> <p>See as well the “wpn retrospect and prospect” paper.</p> <h3 class="spip">Coordinators</h3> <p>Dr Michael W. Katzko (Nijmegen) [Department of Cultural and Personality Psychology, University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands] <br class='autobr' /> Dr Michel Weber (Louvain-la-Neuve)<br class='autobr' /> Dr Anderson Weekes (New York) [c/o M. Weber, ISP, Louvain-la-Neuve]</p> <h3 class="spip">Scientific Committee</h3> <p>Harald Atmanspacher (Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V., Freiburg) – Germany<br class='autobr' /> Renaud Barbaras (Philosophie, Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne) – France<br class='autobr' /> Mark H. Bickhard (Cognitive Science, Lehigh University) – USA<br class='autobr' /> Jason W. Brown (Neurology, New York University Medical Center) – USA <br class='autobr' /> Dr Michael W. Katzko (Department of Cultural and Personality Psychology, University of Nijmegen) – The Netherlands<br class='autobr' /> Marcel Kinsbourne (Cognitive Studies, Tufts University & Psychology, New School University, New York) – USA<br class='autobr' /> Detlef Linke (Neurology, Bonn Universität) – Germany<br class='autobr' /> B. Duncan MacQueen (Neurolinguistics, Medical Academy of Bydgoszcz and Comparative Literature, University of Silesia) – Poland<br class='autobr' /> Maria Pachalska (Medical Rehabilitation, Cracow Rehabilitation Center) – Poland<br class='autobr' /> Nicholas Rescher (Philosophy, Pittsburgh University) – USA <br class='autobr' /> Pierre Rodrigo (Philosophie, Université de Bourgogne) – France<br class='autobr' /> Clive Sherlock (Psychiatry/Psychology, Clare Hall, Cambridge, U.K.) – UK<br class='autobr' /> Gudmund Smith (Psychology, Lunds Universitet) – Sweden<br class='autobr' /> Timothy L. S. Sprigge (Philosophy, Edinburgh University) – UK<br class='autobr' /> Michel Weber (Philosophy, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve) – Belgium<br class='autobr' /> Anderson Weekes (Philosophy, New York) – USA</p></div>