The relationship ofmind to matter, and the very understanding of mind, and matter, still eludes understanding, even after millennia of philosophical work and centuries of scientific reflection. Though everyone seems to agree that the general evolutionary scheme is true-i.e. first a simple universe is born that later complexifies, and finally out of this complexity emerges life, mind and consciousness-there are deep conceptual problems with this vision. The present volume attempts to show how a particular philosophical school ofthinking-process philosophy-helps us in conceptualizing such problems.
The twelve chapters of this book discuss the relation between process philosophy and natural and psychological scientific research, with a focus on the problems of mind and experience. The three successive sections
"zoom in" even stronger on the human mind, to give the full overview of the role that process philosophy might play in providing a consistent, unified language for the description of the physical and mental reality. Each part starts with an introduction, written by a leading expert in their field, that gives the reader a bird's eye view on the articles within a broader context of Whiteheadian philosophy.