Michel Weber (philosopher)
Michel Weber (* 1963 in Brussels ) is a Belgian philosopher who is best known as an interpreter of Alfred North Whitehead and as a representative of process philosophy .
Life
After studying industrial engineering at the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels in 1986, he switched to studying philosophy at the Université catholique de Louvain . After completing his studies in 1991, he began his doctorate there on the anthropic principle and teleology in the philosophy of Aristotle , Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant , which he completed in 1997. During this time he studied from 1993 to 1995 with John B. Cobb and David Ray Griffin at the Center for Process Studies in Claremont . His doctoral thesis dealt with Whitehead's late philosophy.
From 1997 to 2007 Weber worked as a lecturer in philosophy at the Catholic University in Louvain-la-Neuve . During this time he founded a network of activities to promote the process idea in philosophy. This includes a large number of conferences and several series of publications.
Fonts
- La Dialectique de l'intuition chez AN Whitehead: sensation pure, pancréativité et contiguïsme . Préface de Jean Ladrière . Mémoire couronné par la Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, Frankfurt / Paris, Ontos Verlag, 2005 ( ISBN 3-937202-55-2 ).
- Whitehead's Pancreativism. The basics . Foreword by Nicholas Rescher , Frankfurt / Paris, Ontos Verlag, 2006 ( ISBN 3-938793-15-5 ).
- L'Épreuve de la philosophie. Essai sur les fondements de la praxis philosophique , Louvain-la-Neuve, Éditions Chromatika, 2008 ( ISBN 978-2-930517-02-5 ).
- Éduquer (à) l'anarchy. Essai sur les conséquences de la praxis philosophique , Louvain-la-Neuve, Éditions Chromatika, 2008. ( ISBN 978-2-930517-03-2 ).
- (with Jean-Claude Dumoncel) Whitehead ou Le Cosmos torrentiel. Introductions à Procès et réalité , Louvain-la-Neuve, Éditions Chromatika, 2010 ( ISBN 978-2-930517-05-6 ).
- Whitehead's Pancreativism. Jamesian Applications , Frankfurt / Paris, ontos Verlag, 2011 ( ISBN 978-386838-103-0 ).
- Essai sur la Gnose de Harvard. Whitehead apocryphe , Louvain-la-Neuve, Les Éditions Chromatika, 2011 ( ISBN 978-2-930517-26-1 ).
- De quelle révolution avons-nous besoin? , Paris, Éditions Sang de la Terre, 2013. ( ISBN 978-2-86985-297-6 )
- Ethnopsychiatrie et syntonie. Contexte philosophique et applications cliniques , La-Neuville-aux-Joûtes, Jacques Flament Éditions, 2015. ( ISBN 978-2-36336-210-0 )
- Petite philosophie de l'Art Royal. Analysis de l'alchimie franc-maçonne , Louvain-la-Neuve, Éditions Chromatika, 2015. ( ISBN 978-2-930517-48-3 )
- The Political Vindication of Radical Empiricism. With Application to the Global Systemic Crisis , Claremont, Ca., Process Century Press, 2016. ( ISBN 978-1-940447-12-4 )
- Pouvoir, sexe et climat. Biopolitique et création littéraire chez GRR Martin , Avion, Éditions du Cénacle de France, 2017, ISBN 978-2-916537-22-1 )
- Pythagore juste et parfait. Philosophy ou ésotérisme? , Louvain-la-Neuve, Éditions Chromatika, 2018. ( ISBN 978-2-930517-58-2 )
- Contre le totalitarisme transhumaniste: les enseignements philosophiques du sens commun , Limoges, FYP éditions, 2018. ( ISBN 978-2-36405-172-0 )
- editor
- After Whitehead: Rescher on Process Metaphysics, Ontos, Frankfurt / Paris 2004, ISBN 978-3-937202-49-5
- Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought. 2 volumes, Ontos, Frankfurt / Paris 2009, ISBN 978-3-938793-92-3 (with: Will Desmond)
Web links
- Chromatika Academia
- Michel Weber and Anderson Weekes: Sense Perception in Current Process Thought (PDF; 59 kB)
- Center for Process Studies
- Center de philosophie pratique "Chromatiques whiteheadiennes"
- The International Process Network
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Weber, Michel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian philosopher |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |