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    Neville’s Ontological Ultimate: A Bridge Too Far.George Allan - 2015 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 36 (1):18-30.
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    Nature, Truth, and Value: Exploring the Thinking of Frederick Ferrz.George Allan & Merle Frederick Allshouse (eds.) - 2005 - Lexington Books.
    In this thorough compendium, nineteen accomplished scholars explore, in some manner the values they find inherent in the world, their nature, and revelence through the thought of Frederick FerrZ. These essays, informed by the insights of FerrZ and coming from manifold perspectives—ethics, philosophy, theology, and environmental studies, advance an ambitious challenge to current intellectual and scholarly fashions.
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  3. Whiteheadian recollection.George Allan - 2001 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (3):214-227.
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    Hartshorne, Process Philosophy, and Theology.George Allan - 1991 - Philosophy East and West 41 (4):587-589.
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    In Defense of Secularizing Whitehead.George Allan - 2010 - Process Studies 39 (2):319-333.
    This essay responds to Lewis Ford’s “Allan’s Atheism,” in which he assesses a recent essay of mine that finds God an unnecessary and indeed coherence-destroying addition to Process and Reality. I clarify my position by showing how Whitehead’s notions of physical purpose and aesthetic determination adequately account for the novelty required for an actual occasion’s concrescence and for increases in achieved value. I then criticize Ford’s claim that genuine novelties must have a divine origin and that in Adventures of Ideas (...)
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    On Foundationalism. [REVIEW]George Allan - 2005 - Review of Metaphysics 59 (1):196-198.
    Metaphysical realism, as Rockmore defines it, is the claim that "under the proper conditions it is possible to know independent objects and the world as it is". Its canonical version is Platonic realism, which includes the ontological claim that this objective reality is a "permanent ahistorical matrix or framework". Foundationalism is an epistemological strategy for validating the realist claim by identifying something as absolutely true, true "beyond skepticism, hence beyond doubt of any kind", then deducing from it objective "knowledge of (...)
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    Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School: Preempting the Problem of Intentionality.George Allan - 2021 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 42 (2):94-97.
    Modern philosophy in the West has been haunted since Descartes by his ontological dichotomy between extended unthinking substances and thinking unextended substances, which leads to the epistemological problem of whether perceptions by the mind can be judged as truly representing objects external to it. The typical solution has been to reduce one kind of substance to the other: to fashion some version of either idealism or materialism. Attempts at a solution that affirms real differences between physical bodies and conscious minds (...)
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    A Different Three Rs for Education: Reason, Relationality, Rhythm.George Allan & Malcolm D. Evans (eds.) - 2006 - Rodopi.
    This book of twelve essays applies the holistic theories of process philosophy to the educational challenges that teachers face in today s complexly changing world. Topics range from staff development to spirituality, exploring issues of student and teacher motivation, developmental stages of learning, imaginative thinking and writing, nourishing relationships, moral and environmental education, and the development of hospitable learning environments.".
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  9. Alfred North Whitehead. [REVIEW]George Allan - 1997 - Process Studies 26 (1-2):151-156.
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  10. Being and Value: Toward a Constructive Postmodern Metaphysics. [REVIEW]George Allan - 1997 - Review of Metaphysics 50 (3):656-657.
    In order to begin constructing a postmodern metaphysics, Ferré argues, it is first necessary to recall how the modern metaphysical worldview emerged and why it needs to be replaced. Since for Ferré the problem with modern thought is its denial that values have objective reality, his survey of the tradition from Thales to the present emphasizes the "value commitments," especially the "standards of cognitive success," embraced explicitly or implicitly by each philosopher. For example, completeness and consistency are thought by some (...)
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  11. Diagrams and myths.George Allan - 2019 - In Brian G. Henning & Joseph Petek (eds.), Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925. Edinburgh University Press.
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  12. Emphatics. [REVIEW]George Allan - 2001 - Review of Metaphysics 54 (4):952-952.
    Ever the restless thinker, Weiss has once more revised his metaphysical system, introducing the Dunamic-Rational as one of the five ultimate conditions to which Being gives rise and identifying emphatics as the way by which particular beings and such other pivotal realities interrelate. These systemic adjustments give needed prominence to the dynamic features of reality.
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  13. Hellfire and Lightning Rods: Liberating Science, Technology, and Religion. Ecology & Justice Series. [REVIEW]George Allan - 1996 - Process Studies 25:120-124.
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    Modes of Learning: Whitehead's Metaphysics and the Stages of Education.George Allan - 2012 - State University of New York Press.
    A highly accessible reading of Whitehead's writings on education and their connection to his metaphysics.
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    Modes of Learning: Whitehead's Metaphysics and the Stages of Education.George Allan - 2013 - State University of New York Press.
    _A highly accessible reading of Whitehead's writings on education and their connection to his metaphysics._.
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    Nature, Truth, and Value: Exploring the Thinking of Frederick Ferrz.George Allan, Merle Allshouse, Harley Chapman, John B. Cobb, John Compton, Donald A. Crosby, Paul T. Durbin, Barbara Meister Ferré, Frederick Ferré, Frank B. Golley, Joseph Grange, John Granrose, David Ray Griffin, David Keller, Eugene Thomas Long, Elisabethe Segars McRae, Leslie A. Muray, William L. Power, James F. Salmon, Hans Julius Schneider, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Udo E. Simonis, Donald Wayne Viney & Clark Wolf (eds.) - 2005 - Lexington Books.
    In this thorough compendium, nineteen accomplished scholars explore, in some manner the values they find inherent in the world, their nature, and revelence through the thought of Frederick Ferré. These essays, informed by the insights of Ferré and coming from manifold perspectives—ethics, philosophy, theology, and environmental studies, advance an ambitious challenge to current intellectual and scholarly fashions.
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  17. Review. [REVIEW]George Allan - 1983 - History and Theory 22:83-93.
     
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  18. The Conversation of a University.George Allan - 2018 - In Aaron Stoller & Eli Kramer (eds.), Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University: Toward a Philosophy of Higher Education. Springer Verlag. pp. 103-122.
    This chapter argues that the essential task of a university is not teaching students to be experts in some field of endeavor but educating them, so they might learn how to act in accord with the basic moral constraints governing any endeavor. With the help of ideas from Plato, Aristotle, and Michael Oakeshott, this argument is developed by distinguishing actions from practices and prudential from moral practices. Our moral practices, which comprise our character, cannot be taught, but they can be (...)
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    The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form.George Allan - 2001 - State University of New York Press.
    An original philosophical treatise on form and the foundations of social value.
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    The Realizations of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Authority of Praxis.George Allan - 1990 - State University of New York Press.
    In this work he focuses on human effort, concrete action, realization of the future through creative activities--as beginning points for the search for a foundation to values. Paper edition (unseen by Book News), $18.95.
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    Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists: Experience and Reality.George Allan, Steven Meyer, Thomas M. Jeannot, Scott Sinclair, Maria Regina Brioschi, Michael Brady, Nicholas Gaskill, Eleonora Mingarelli, Vincent M. Colapietro & Jude Jones (eds.) - 2015 - Lexington Books.
    This collection of original essays explores the connections between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and the classical American pragmatists.
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    Whitehead’s Radically Temporalist Metaphysics: Recovering the Seriousness of Time.George Allan - 2020 - Lexington Books.
    This book argues that Whitehead’s introduction of God into his process metaphysics renders it incoherent. Replacing roles assigned to God with the powers inherent in finite entities, George Allan recovers a coherent presentation of the truth of time’s primacy, using Whitehead’s major writings.
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    Exploring Whitehead’s Philosophy of Education.George Allan - 2005 - Process Studies 34 (2):167-170.
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    Solomon’s Dream and Whitehead’s Rhythm of Education.George Allan - 2005 - Process Studies 34 (2):224-239.
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    Ultimate Value.George Allan - 2004 - Process Studies 33 (2):284-302.
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    Whitehead, Process Philosophy, and Education. [REVIEW]George Allan - 1997 - Process Studies 26 (3-4):334-336.
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    Weiss, Paul. Emphatics. [REVIEW]George Allan - 2001 - Review of Metaphysics 54 (4):952-953.
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    Forms, Transforms, and the Creative Process.George Allan - 1999 - The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 4:231-238.
    A standard account of creativity is that it is a process in which the form of a thing or event is altered—restructured or reinterpreted—in a way that changes fundamentally that thing’s or event’s meaning, its nature or function, its intrinsic or instrumental value. What is created in this manner, however, is only a variation of the initial form. Such processes are creative in a weak sense; the strong sense requires that the old form be replaced by a quite different one, (...)
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    Sartre’s Constriction of the Marxist Dialectic.George Allan - 1979 - Review of Metaphysics 33 (1):87 - 108.
    JEAN-PAUL SARTRE in the Critique de la raison dialectique, develops a theory of praxis which extends the anthropology of L'être et le néant while simultaneously claiming to correct and complete Marxism. Central to Sartre’s argument are two assertions: that dialectic is fundamental to human action, and that all historical development is rooted in the praxis of individual persons. These twin assertions, by insisting upon the existential element in social change, do not merely correct Marxism. They fundamentally alter it. In affirming (...)
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    Conservatives, Liberals and the Colonized: Ontological Reflections.George Allan - 1994 - Process Studies 23 (3/4):256-281.
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    Process Philosophy and the Educational Canon.George Allan - 1991 - Process Studies 20 (2):89-101.
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    Review of Two Great Truths. [REVIEW]George Allan - 2005 - Process Studies 34 (1):144-146.
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    The Metaphysical Axioms and Ethics of Charles Hartshorne.George Allan - 1986 - Review of Metaphysics 40 (2):271 - 304.
    Hartshorne's "neoclassical metaphysics" rests implicitly on five metaphysical axioms: discontinuity, Asymmetry, Sociality, Creativity, And dipolar divinity. The first four axioms entail ethical norms crucial to democracy: non-Reducibility of individual to community, Primacy of present achievement over potential future value, Non-Reducibility of communal to individual, The importance of risk. The fifth axiom undercuts these norms, However. The notion of God as guarantor of achieved value should be dropped from hartshorne's philosophy to make it ethically consistent.
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    The Genesis of Modern Process Thought. [REVIEW]George Allan - 1986 - Idealistic Studies 16 (2):170-170.
    Lucas defines process thought by means of an analysis of the constituent elements in its historical development during the past two centuries. Newtonian mechanistic realism is contrasted with the romantic monism of evolutionary cosmologists. Lucas then argues that Hegelian idealism shaped the revolt of English-speaking pragmatism and realism against both mechanism and romanticism in ways that eventuated in the process rationalism of the Whiteheadian school.
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    A Functionalist Reinterpretation of Whitehead’s Metaphysics.George Allan - 2008 - Review of Metaphysics 62 (2):327-354.
    Whitehead’s process metaphysics, as developed in Process and Reality, is harmed by the incoherence of his notion of eternal objects as timeless and essentially unrelated entities, which therefore need a primordial agent as their ontological ground and the source of their relatedness and relevance. Such nontemporal entities undermine what is supposed to be a thoroughly temporalist metaphysics. Eternal objects can be understood solely as functions of Creativity, however, as features of a purely temporal process. A notion of God is not (...)
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    Alfred North Whitehead: A Primary-Secondary Bibliography. [REVIEW]George Allan - 1977 - Process Studies 7 (3):211-215.
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    Comments on Ferré’s “The Practicality of Metaphysics”.George Allan - 2005 - Review of Metaphysics 58 (3):529-532.
    Ferré proposes three criteria for judging whether or not a metaphysical theory is “well made.” Two of the criteria are “adequacy” and “coherence.” For a metaphysical theory to be well made, it must be inclusive, leaving nothing out of its purview. And it must be integrated, bringing together all it includes into a unified whole. Adequacy and coherence apply to metaphysical theories the criteria for any non-trivial logical system: that it be both complete and consistent.
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    Croce and Whitehead On Concrescence.George Allan - 1972 - Process Studies 2 (2):95-111.
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    Forms of Hatred. [REVIEW]George Allan - 2004 - Review of Metaphysics 58 (1):175-176.
    Human societies, according to Donskis, are organized by “value-and-idea systems” that are works of creative imagination validated by their adequacy to the reality with respect to which they orient us. These patterns of culture provide the conditions for our personal and collective identities. The modern Western cultural pattern celebrates analytic reason and individuality, rejecting the holistic/hierarchic values of both its Christian and pagan predecessor cultures. The absence of these cohesive traditional values, however, troubles our imagination. It exposes our vulnerability and (...)
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    Croce's Theory of Historical Judgment.George Allan - 1975 - Modern Schoolman 52 (2):169-187.
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    Process Philosophy and Social Thought. [REVIEW]George Allan - 1983 - Process Studies 13 (4):287-295.
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    George Herbert Mead: Self, Language, and the World. [REVIEW]George Allan - 1974 - Process Studies 4 (1):42-51.
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    Neville, Normative Measure, and the Discursive Individual.George Allan - 1992 - Review of Metaphysics 45 (3):575 - 597.
    IN RECOVERY OF THE MEASURE: INTERPRETATION AND NATURE, Robert Cummings Neville develops a philosophy of nature and theory of interpretation as centerpieces for his projected three-volume Axiology of Thinking. This emerging ontology of value is impressive for both its originality and complexity. Neville's claims about meaning, truth, objectivity, and knowledge are deployed in explicit opposition to the relativism, historicism, and subjectivism currently so popular among philosophers. His critique is formidable because neither polemical nor defensive; it is rather the expression of (...)
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    Historians, soothsayers, and the philosophy of history.George J. Allan - 1970 - Philosophical Forum 2 (1):50.
    HISTORIANS DESCRIBE AND EXPLAIN THE PAST. IT IS ARGUED THAT THIS ACTIVITY CAN BE EXTENDED TO ENCOMPASS FUTURE-REFERRING STATEMENTS WITHOUT BECOMING SOOTHSAYING. DESCRIPTIVE AND EXPLANATORY TECHNIQUES ARE EXAMINED, AND THE TEST OF THEIR ADEQUACY SEEN TO INVOLVE SPECULATIVE PREDICTION AND PROJECTION. PHILOSOPHERS OF HISTORY ALSO USE SUCH TECHNIQUES, IMAGINATIVELY COMPLETING INCOMPLETE DESCRIPTIVE PATTERNS BY REFERENCE TO THE FUTURE, IN ORDER TO SUGGEST AND EVALUATE EXPLANATIONS OF PAST EVENTS.
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    Pragmatism and Process.George Allan - 2008 - In Michel Weber (ed.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought. De Gruyter. pp. 325-338.
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    Alfred North Whitehead.George Allan - 1997 - Process Studies 26 (1/2):211-215.
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    Cosmological and Civilized Harmonies.George Allan - 2008 - In Michel Weber (ed.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought. De Gruyter. pp. 41-54.
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    George Herbert Mead: Self, Language, and the World. [REVIEW]George Allan - 1974 - Process Studies 4 (1):42-51.
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    Whitehead and Dewey: Religion in the Making of Education.George Allan - 2004 - In Janusz A. Polanowski & Donald W. Sherburne (eds.), Whitehead's Philosophy: Points of Connection. State University of New York Press. pp. 41.
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    A Theology Primer. [REVIEW]George Allan - 1999 - Process Studies 28 (3-4):352-354.
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