This book examines the process philosophies of Whitehead and others against current discussions of astrobiology, extraterrestrial life, and their engagement by theological and religious systems.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Foreword by Timothy E. Eastman
Acknowledgments by Roland Faber
Introduction: Process Philosophy and Extraterrestrial Life: Past, Present, and Future by Andrew M. Davis
Part I: Astrophilosophy
1. Prospects for a Universal Philosophy of Organism: Some Initial Reflections by Derek Malone-France
2. The Cosmological Context of the Origin of Life: Process Philosophy and the Hot Spring Hypothesis by Matthew David Segall and Bruce Damer
3. The Organic Universe and Otherworldly Lives: Bergson and Sagan by Wahida Khandker
4. The Connection-Action Principle: A Basis for Process Philosophy, Cosmic Creativity, and Value? by Mark Lupisella
5. Astrobiological Searches for Life and Shared Knowledge by Chelsea Haramia
Part II: Exotheology
6. Evolution Connected to Theory of Value by Process-Relational Astrotheology and Cosmotheology by Theodore Walker Jr.
7. Astrobiology, Astrotheology, and Cosmic Consciousness by Ted Peters
8. Astrobiology, Cosmotheology, and the Biological Universe: Implications for Religion and Theology by Steven J. Dick
9. From Negation to Exemplification: A Deeper Whiteheadian Cosmotheology by Andrew M. Davis
Part III: Cosmic Religion
10. Religious Belief and the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life: What's Worldview Got to Do with It? by Constance M. Bertka
11. "Worlds as Numerous as the Grains of Sand of the Ganges" Cosmic Pluralism and Swami Vivekananda's Religion of the Future by Jeffery D. Long
12. Multiplicity without Tyranny: The Nonviolent Aim in Jainism and Whitehead's Process Metaphysics by Brianne Donaldson
13. Extending the Noosphere into Intergalactic Life: Teilhard de Chardin and the Third Axial Age by Ilia Delio
14. Astrobiology without Biology: Will AI be Our Emissary or Our Bottleneck? by Noreen Herzfeld
15. A Darker Forest? The Fermi Paradox and Extraterrestrial Spiritual Life by Roland Faber
Epilogue: Theological Reflections on Extraterrestrial Life (1968) by Lewis S. Ford
