Chromatika

Whitehead Psychology Nexus’ Workshops

1. Fontarèches 2002

May 22

Jason Brown (New York University Medical Center), « Genetic psychologies and Whiteheadian concrescence »

John Pickering (Psychology Department, Warwick University), « Psychology has regained consciousness but still does not know where it is »

Clive Sherlock (Cambridge Adaptation Centre, and Clare Hall, Cambridge University, U.K.), « My life without me »

May 23

Michel Weber (Louvain-la-Neuve), « Process phenomenology of consciousness »

Jean-Claude Dumoncel (Université de Caen), « The Psychology of Propositional Prehensions »

May 25 [Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science]

Stuart Hameroff (The University of Arizona, Tucson), « Consciousness, Whitehead’s "occasions of experience" and modern physics »

2. Fontarèches 2003 : Sense-perception in contemporary process thought. Philosophy and Psychology in dialogue

April 22

Jason Brown and Michel Weber, « Welcome »

Harald Atmanspacher, « A categorial mental states »

Richard Carvalho, « Matte Blanco and the Logic of Emotion and Unconscious Process »

Franz Riffert, « Whitehead, science and perception »

Jason Brown, « Whitehead’s theory of time in relation to the microgenetic concept of the present »

Detlef Linke, « Religion and Personal Identity »

Bruce Duncan MacQueen, « Being and becoming in Greek philosophy: from Heraclitus to Plato »

April 23, 2003

Michel Weber, « Whitehead’s Analysis of Perception: From Macro to Microscopic perspectives »

Aleksandra Blachnio, « Future orientation of the self-authoring personality »

Marta Moritz, « Fixing the fluid past: neurotic personality »

Ludmila Zajac, « Temporal frameworks in the dynamics of Self-Authoring »

Clive Sherlock, « Thoughts without a thinker: process psychology of perception »

Timothy Sprigge , « Whitehead’s philosophy of space »

John Pickering, « On the separation of fact and value »

Jean-Claude Dumoncel, « Percept and Perspectives: the Psychology of Perception according to Hintikka and Whitehead »

B. Kaczmarek, « Language and mind »

Jean-Marie Breuvart, « Physiological and esthetical functions of the human body according to Adventures of Ideas »

3. Avignon 2004 : The unity of knowledge and action

April 14

Warren G. Frisina, « Knowledge, Action and the Organicist Turn »

Jason Brown, « Microgenesis and Knowledge »

Michel Weber, « Panexperientialism in Action »

Michael W. Katzko, « Some Remarks »

Bruce Duncan MacQueen, « Erotic neoteny in Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe »

April 15

Slawek T., « Actors and re-actors: action in Blake »

Knapik H., « Disturbances of action in patients with dementia »

Pachalska M. « Discontinuity in the perception—action cycle »

4. Seoul 2004

Donald C. Bellomy (Sogang University), « From Hierarchy to Process: The Quest for Unfied Knowledge in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries »

Wolfgang Fach and Harald Atmanspacher (Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health), « Stability Properties and Phenomenal Characterization of Acategorial Mental States »

Richard Noll (DeSales University), « C. G. Jung, A. N. Whitehead and the Vitalsitic Zeitgeist »

John Pickering (Warwick), « Mental Life is Organic, Not Mechanistic »

Michel Weber (Chromatiques), « Western Psychotherapies and Eastern Worldviews in the Light of Whitehead’s Anthropology »

Robert S. Corrington (Drew University), « From the Process Self to the Ecstatic Self: Pantheism Reconsidered »

Detlef B. Linke, (Professor of neurology at Bonn Universität), « Brain and Process »

Ko Hojo (The Philosophy of Science Society, Japan, and The International Society of Philosophy of Chemistry), « The Self Consciousness: The Philosophy of Kitaro Nishida »

Kim Seong-nae (Sogang University), « The Fortune-seeking Mentality in the Korean Shamanistic Tradition »

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 »

Yoshihiro Hayashi (Kyoto University Graduate School), « Existence and Cosmos: Linking Frankl and Whitehead »

Huyn Moon Kim (Hanseo University), « Ken Wilber and A.N. Whitehead »

Bogdan Ogrodnik (University of Silesia), « The Metaphysical Structure of Zen Practice of Koan as a Model of Process of Psychotherapy »

5. Sorbonne 2004

Michel Weber (Louvain-la-Neuve), « James and Whitehead on the Rationality of Consciousness »

Timothy L. S. Sprigge (Edinburgh), « Radical Empiricism versus the Absolute »

Michael Katzko (Nijmegen), « James, Whitehead and the concept of self in contemporary psychology

Julian Piras (Saarbrücken), « Complexity »

Craig Eisendrath (Philadelphia), « The Unifying Moment: The Psychological Philosophy of William James and Alfred North Whitehead »

Avraham Schweiger (Tel Aviv), « The nervous system as the embodiment of concrescence and of the specious present: A process approach to neurophysiology »

John Pickering (Warwick), « Nature and Life —the living bridge between Whitehead and James »

6. Katowice 2005

Jacek Drozdz (University of Silesia), THE STRUCTURE AND ORIGIN OF TIME IN THE PHENOMONOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS OF MAX SCHELER

Levent Kavas (Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Turkey), NO THOUGHT IS THOUGHT TWICE

Bruce Duncan MacQueen (Department of Neurolinguistics, College of Medicine in Bydgoszcz, Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun), SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND TIME STRUCTURE FROM A MICROGENETIC PERSPECTIVE

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

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

Mare Piwowarczyk (Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin), ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ROOTS OF WHITEHEAD’S EPOCHAL THEORY OF BECOMING

Karolina Sekuka (Catholic University of Lublin), ETERNALISM VS. RADICAL TEMPORALISM: TWO PANPSYCHIC CONCEPTIONS OF THE PAST

Michel Weber (Chromatiques), THE CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE OF TIME AND THE TIME OF CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE

7. Fontarèches 2013

Wed., April 3 1630/1700 : tea & welcome by Jason W. Brown

1700/1745 : Bogdan Rusu (Paris I Sorbonne) : Feeling : From British Psychology to Whitehead’s Metaphysics

1745/1830 : Luca Vanzago (Università di Pavia) : The nature of intentionality and the intentionality in nature. A reflection on Whitehead’s conception of experience

1830/1915 : Denys Zhadyaev (State University, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) : The Notion of Balance

1915/2015 : light dinner

2015/2100 : Riccardo Manzotti (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milano) : A process model for dream and hallucinations

2100/2145 : Aljoscha Berve (Düsseldorf Universität) : Subject, enduring percipient, ego-object : structure and capacity of the human individual in the philosophy of organism

Thurs., April 4 0730/0830 : breakfast

0830/0915 : Jason W. Brown (New York University Medical Center) : Subjective time and the continuity of the mental life

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

1030/1100 : coffee

1100/1145 : Maria-Teresa Teixeira (Universidade de Lisboa), The relevance of process philosophy to psychology and philosophy of mind

1145/1230 : David T. Bradford (Neuropsychologist, Austin, Texas) : A Process Perspective on Mystical States of Awareness

1230/1430 : lunch

1430/1515 : Harald Atmanspacher (Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg) : Mind-Matter Correlations in Dual-Aspect Monism

1515/1600 : Hans-Ferdinand Angel (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) : Creditions—processes of believing. Questions regarding their foundation in a theory of process

1600/1630 : tea

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

1715/1800 : Michael Katzko (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) : A Process Account of Self-Consciousness

1800/1845 : Clive Sherlock (Oxford Centre for Mindfulness and Adaptation Practice) : Process approaches to consciousness in psychiatry

1900 : dinner

2100/2145 : Kurian Kachappilly (Dharmaram College, Bangalore) : tba

Fri., April 5 0730/0830 : breakfast

0830/0915 : Michel Weber (Centre de philosophie pratique, Brussels) : Shamanism and proto-consciousness

0915/1030 : John Pickering (Warwick University) : Interminable signification : a biosemiotic framework for Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze

1030/1100 : coffee

1100/1145 : Paul Stenner (Open University, London) : Experience, liminality and affectivity : integrating process philosophy (Whitehead), process anthropology (Turner) and psychology without foundations

1145/1230 : Ronny Desmet (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) : A Whiteheadian reading of Frankl’s logotherapy

1230/1430 : lunch

1430/1515 : David Roy (The Creative Transformation Institute, Fresno Ca) : Consciousness of the Self

1515/1600 : Tina Röck (Universität Innsbruck) : Sense certainty and the concrete in Hegel and Whitehead

1600/1630 : tea

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

1715/1800 : Eleonora Mingarelli (Università di Milano Statale) : Re-thinking the Self. Process Philosophy in Murray and Morgan’s Personology

1800/1845 : Helmut Maaßen (Düsseldorf Universität) : De origine et natura affectuum in Spinoza and Leibniz

1900 : dinner

8. Fontarèches 2014

Saturday 12th.

12:00 onwards Arrivals.

Sunday 13th.

9:00 Welcome and introductions.

Section one. Psychology and Religion.

10:00 Jason Brown. New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

Origins of religious belief.

11:00 Helmut Massen. Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

God and creation : The One and the Many.

12:00 Break.

12:30 Yulia Pazinich. National Mining University, Ukraine.

Religious Tolerance and Psychic Health.

13:30 Break.

Section two. Physics and Biology.

15:00 Wendy Wheeler. London Metropolitan University, UK.

Process Biology : Biosemiotics, Peirce and Whitehead.

16:00 Niel Theise and Menas Kafatos. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.

THE SELF ORGANIZING UNIVERSE : Applying complexity theory to the question of panpsychism.

17:00 Break.

17:30 David Peat. The Pari Center for New Learning, Italy.

David Bohm and Whitehead.

18:30 John Pickering. Psychology Department, Warwick University, UK.

Process Geopolitics.

Monday 14th.

Section three. Consciousness, Feeling and Culture.

09:00 Paul Stenner. Open University, UK.

Utmost abstractions of affectivity and their metaphorical bases.

10:00 Maria-Theresa Teixeira. Centre for Philosophy, Lisbon University, Portugal.

The brain and the unconscious.

11:00 Break.

11:30 Denis Zhadiaiev. National Mining University, Ukraine.

SLEEP PARALYSIS : SOME SCIENTIFIC DATA, PHILOSOPHICAL GENERALIZATIONS, and PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.

12:30 Break.

15:00 Karen Yan. National Yang Ming University, Taiwan.

Process, Consciousness, and Self.

16:00 Michel Weber. Centre de philosophie pratique, Brussels.

Hopes and contradictions of institutional psychotherapy, with some remarks about Guattari and Deleuze.

17:00 Break.

17:30 Dialogue.

Tuesday 15th.

Section four. Process in perspective.

9:00 Concluding remarks, prospects and departures.

T.B.A. Maria Pachalska

Title and place in programme to be announced

9. Fontarèches 2015

The Spring Meeting of the Whitehead Psychology Nexus. Fontareches, March 27 - 30th., 2015.

Friday March 27th.

7:00 Introductions

7:30 Michel Weber The contemporary relevance of Whitehead.

Saturday March 28th.

9:00 Terry Deacon The thermodynamics of sentience: From vegetative to subjective self.

10:00 Jason Brown Mind & Brain: contributions from microgenetic theory.

11:00 - 11:30 Break

11:30 Jesper Hoffmeyer Semiotic Individuation: Ernst Cassirer’s Challenge.

12:30 Spyridon Koutroufinis Uexküll and Whitehead.

1:30 - 3:30 Break

3:30 John Deely Substance, Process, and Relation as the Constituents of Synechism.

4:30 Aljoscha Berve The evolution of the ‘circle of understanding’.

5:30 Paul Stenner Evolutions and revolutions of meaning in Proust, Kierkergaard and Whitehead.

6:30 Discussion Sunday March 29th.

9:00 David Bradford Mystical Process in Ramakrishna’s Nirvikalpa Samadhi.

10:00 Maria-Teresa Teixeira Ineffability and mystical knowledge.

11:00 - 11:30 Break

11:30 Susan Stuart Interoception, Time and Arithmetic.

12:30 Bryony Pierce Grounding Reasons for Action.

1:30 - 3:30 Break

3:30 Jeroen van Dijk Process physics, time and consciousness: nature as an internally meaningful, habit-establishing process.

4:30 Maria Pachalska Neurological diseases in famous painters: destabilization of mental process.

5:30 John Pickering Nature is habit-forming.

Monday March 30th.

8:30 Plenary

Depart

9. Fontarèches 2017

Prog. in the making.

See also the academia annoucements.

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