ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Vincent Colapietro is Liberal Arts Research Professor of Philosophy at Penn- sylvania State University. His areas of specialization include American phi- losophy, semiotics, and Charles Sanders Peirce. His most recent book is Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom: John William Miller & The Crises of Modernity (2003). His most recent co-edited volume (with Joseph P. Fell & Michael J. McGandy) is John William Miller’s The Task of Criticism: Essays On Philosophy, History, & Community (2005).

Clinton Combs is a PhD candidate in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University. He has an MA in Philosophy and a BA in Philosophy and Mathematics. His forthcoming dissertation uses Whitehead’s metaphysics to address some conceptual gaps in Levinas’ ethics and uses Le- vinas as inspiration for creating a better Process Ethics. He has written confe- rence reports for Process Perspectives including one for the “Beyond Meta- physics Conference” (2009). He works as a self-employed swimming pool contractor (www.TechnicalPoolRepair.com). This will be his first co-edited volume.

Jeremy Dunham (University of the West of England in U.K.) is working on an introduction to Idealist Philosophy with Iain Hamilton Grant and Sean Watson to be published by Acumen in 2010. During 2010 he will present sev- eral papers on Leibniz and the reception of Leibniz's thought by the British idealists, and early analytic, philosophers. Roland Faber is the Founder of the Whitehead Research Project. He is the Kilby Family/John B. Cobb Jr. Professor of Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology, and Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University. He also serves as a Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies. His fields of research and publication include Systematic Theology, Process Thought and Process Theology, Poststructuralism, Interre- ligious Discourse (especially Christianity & Buddhism), Comparative Philos- ophy of Religion, Philosophy, Theology, Spirituality, and Cosmology of the Renaissance, and Mysticism. He has published four books and edited two. His most recent is God As Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies (2008).

Michael Halewood is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex, UK, where he is a member of the Centre for Theoretical Studies. His main areas of interest are the work of A. N. Whitehead, philosophy and social theory, and the materiality of subjectivity. His recent publications include: “Being a Soci- ologist and Becoming a Whiteheadian: Concrescing Methodological Tactics,” 316 Contributors in Theory, Culture and Society 24:4 (2008) and a collection of papers on Whitehead for Theory, Culture and Society.

Brian G. Henning is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga Universi- ty, the Associate Director of the Society for the Study of Process Philoso- phies, and Director of Research for the Whitehead Research Project. As Di- rector of Research he is facilitating the publication of Whitehead’s work by helping to collect published and unpublished works, secure rights, and edit texts. His scholarship and teaching focuses on the interconnections among ethics, metaphysics, and aesthetics. In addition to many articles, his major work is The Ethics of Creativity: Beauty, Morality, and Nature in a Proces- sive Cosmos (2005), which won The Metaphysical Society of America’s 2007 Findlay Book Prize.

Jude Jones teaches philosophy at Fordham University and is director of the Society for the Study of Process Philosophies. Her main areas of interest are the application of process metaphysical models to transforming moral practic- es, panpsychism and process models of consciousness, and an ongoing inter- est in the role of intensity in describing actuality in a process view. Her major work is Intensity: An Essay In Whiteheadian Cosmology (1998).

Christoph Kann teaches philosophy at Duesseldorf University. His field of research ranges from classical Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of the Middle Ages, and Modern Philosophy (especially Analytical Philosophy of Language and Logic). He has published several books, including: Footnotes to Plato: History of Philosophy in A. N. Whitehead (2001). He is a founding member of the German Whitehead Society.

Regine Kather teaches philosophy at Freiburg University. Her areas of re- search include the Philosophy of Natural Sciences, Anthropology, and Inter- cultural Philosophy. She has been lecturing in the US, Croatia, Slovenia, Ro- mania, Japan, and India. She has published seven books, including: On Walter Benjamin’s Concept of language and Orders of Reality: Philosophical Cos- mology’s Critique of the Mechanistic Paradigm. She has also written several articles on Spinoza, Leibniz and Whitehead.

Joachim Klose is head of the Educational Society, Dresden. In this capacity, he covers broad areas of research, reaching from political science and sociol- ogy to philosophy and theology. His major work so far has been The Structure of Time in Alfred North Whitehead’s Philosophy (2002).