Timothy E. Eastman & Hank Keeton 
Physics and Whitehead [PDF ebook] 
Quantum, Process, and Experience

Preface

Series Introduction

Part I. Physics and Whitehead

1 Introduction to Process Thought
Philip Clayton

2. Duality without Dualism
Timothy E. Eastman

3. Whitehead as Mathematical Physicist
Hank Keeton

4. Evidence for Process in the Physical World
John A. Jungerman

5. Dialogue for Part I

Part II. Order and Emergence

6. Constraints on the Origin of Coherence in Far-from-Equilibrium Chemical Systems
Joseph E. Earley Sr.

7. Whitehead’s Philosophy and the Collapse of Quantum States
Shimon Malin

8. A Historical Reality That Includes Big Bang, Free Will, and Elementary Particles
Geoffrey F. Chew

9. Whiteheadian Process and Quantum Theory
Henry P. Stapp

10. Dialogue for Part II

Part III. Fundamental Processes

11. The Primacy of Asymmetry over Symmetry in Physics
Joe Rosen

12. Spacetime and Becoming: Overcoming the Contradiction Between Special Relativity and the Passage of Time
Niles Viggo Hansen

13. The Individuality of a Quantum Event: Whitehead’s Epochal Theory of Time and Bohr’s Framework or Complementarity
Yutaka Tanaka

14. Physical Process and Physical Law
David Ritz Finkelstein

15. Dialogue for Part III

Part IV. Metaphysics

16. Whitehead’s Process Philosophy as Scientific Metaphysics
Franz G. Riffert

17. Whitehead and the Quantum Experience
Jorge Luis Nobo

18. Dialogue for Part IV

Glossary

Bibliography

Contributors

Note on Supporting Center

Index

SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought

Timothy E. Eastman is Group Manager for Space Science at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and a consultant in plasma science and technology.
Hank Keeton is President of Keeton Construction Corporation and earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.