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My Whitehead papers

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VARIA
* Looking Back on the Quantum Conference (= report). In: Process Perspectives 28.2 (2005): 6-8.
* Physics and Relativity (= essay with Tim Eastman). In: Weber & Desmond (ed). Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought. Volume 2. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008:235-258.
* Whitehead: Relativity and Experience (= winning essay of the 2008 Whitehead Essay Contest). In: Concrescence - The Australian Journal of Process Thought 2009:3-9 (www.concrescence.org).
* On the Need to Interpret General Relativity (= essay). Forthcoming in Process Studies Supplements.
* Whitehead's Cambridge Training (= essay). In: Weber & Desmet (ed). Whitehead - The Algebra of Metaphysics. Louvain-la-Neuve: Chromatika, 2010:91-125.
* A Refutation of Russell's Stereotype (=essay). In: Weber & Desmet (ed). Whitehead - The Algebra of Metaphysics. Louvain-la-Neuve: Chromatika, 2010:127-209.
BOOK REVIEWS
* Gary Herstein: Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of Cosmology. In: Weber & Basile (ed). Chromatikon II. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2006:245-250.
* Marc de Lacoste Lareymondie: Une philosophie pour la physique quantique. In: Weber & Basile (ed). Chromatikon III. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2007:265-270 & Synopsis in: Process Studies 36.1 (2007):140-144.
* Guillaume Durand: Des Evenements aux Objects. In: Process Studies 37.1 (2008):189-192.
* Philippe Devaux: La Cosmologie de Whitehead. In: Logique et Analyse 202 (2008):167-184 & Synopsis in: Process Studies 37.2 (2008):200-210.
* Marc Johnson: The Meaning of the Body. In: Weber & Basile (ed). Chromatikon IV. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2008:177-185 & Synopsis in: Process Studies 38.1(2009):158-161.
* Pierfrancesco Basile: Leibniz, Whitehead and the Metaphysics of Causation. In: Weber & Desmet (ed). Chromatikon V. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2009:235-239.
LECTURES
* Kwantumverstrengelingen: dodelijk of bevrijdend? (University of Rotterdam, November 19, 2005). Cf. the DSpace website of Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam.
* Whitehead comme philosophe de culture (University of Louvain, June 2, 2006). In: Bourgine & Ongombe & Weber (ed). Regards croises sur Alfred North Whitehead. Frankfurt:Ontos Verlag, 2007:193-196.
* Did Whitehead and Einstein actually meet? (University of Salzburg, July 3, 2006). In: Riffert & Sander (ed). Researching with Whitehead: System and Adventure. Freiburg: Alber Verlag, 2008:127-155.
* Chapter 12, not chapter 11, prevents possible bankruptcy of Alfred North Whitehead's business (University of Salzburg, July 4, 2006).
* De slang in Russells paradijs (VUB, January 19, 2007).
* The Rebirth of the Ether (Sorbonne, Paris, February 17, 2007 & University of Ghent, June 8, 2007). In: Weber & Basile (ed). Chromatikon III. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2007: 69-93.
* The Serpent in Russell's Paradise (VUB, March 27, 2007). In: Van Kerkhove (ed). New Perspectives on Mathematical Practices: Essays in Philosophy and History of Mathematics. New Jersey: World Scientific, 2009:207-221.
* Speculative philosophy as a generalized mathematics (Jardin d'Europe, Avignon, April 10, 2007). In: Weber & Basile (ed). Chromatikon IV. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2008:37-49.
* Whitehead's Interpretation of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (University of Budapest, September 8, 2007). Cf. the website of the PIRT conference (www.phil-inst.hu).
* Whitehead and the British Reception of Einstein's Relativity (Claremont Graduate University, October 2, 2007). Process Studies Supplements 2007 Issue 11 (www.ctr4process.org/publications/ProcessStudies/PSS).
* How did Whitehead become Einstein's antagonist? On Poincare and Whitehead (Sorbonne, Paris, November 3, 2007 & VUB, December 17, 2007). In: Process Studies 37.2 (2008):5-23.
* Whitehead: relativiteit en waarneming (University of Antwerpen, April 12, 2008).
* The Minkowskian Background of Whitehead's Theory of Gravitation (Concordia University, June 15, 2008 & Royal Academy of Brussels, September 2, 2008 & University of Liege, September 25, 2008 & Christ University, Bangalore, January 8, 29). In: Vesselin (ed). Space, Time, and Spacetime. Berlin: Springer, 2010: 3-23.
* Was Whitehead an Analytical Philosopher? (Sorbonne, Paris, November 7, 2009). In: Weber & Desmet (ed.). Whitehead - The Algebra of Metaphysics. Louvain-la-Neuve: Chromatika, 2010:211-248.
* Whitehead's Philosophy of Mathematics (University of Luik, November 27, 2009). Forthcoming at Chromatika.
* Whitehead's Relativity (VUB, May 25, 2010) In: Weber & Desmet (ed.) Whitehead - The Algebra of Metaphysics. Louvain-la-Neuve: Chromatika, 2010:365-373.

Updated: August 1, 2010