XII. The Curious Case of Routines: Between Deliberation and Instinct

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Memories of Forgotten Times 4
3. Contents vii
4. Contributors 7
5. Foreword 13
6. Passing 18
7. Preface 21
8. Fundamental Cosmological Dualities 39
9. Introduction: Following a Trail Ablaze 41
10. I. The Urizen of Whiteheadian Process Thought 61
11. II. Mementos of a Timequake: Whitehead’s Radical Empiricism 75
12. III. Systems Thinking and Emergence 101
13. IV. A Study in the Process Philosophy of Science: Biosystems and their Properties 111
14. V. Containment and Reciprocity in Biological Systems: A Putative Psychophysical Organising Principle 133
15. VI. The Philosophy of an Infinite, Open and Integrated Universe 149
16. VII. The Religious Importance of Metaphysics 205
17. VIII. The Earth, Life and Process Thinking: China and the West 221
18. IX. Empire, Relational Power, and a Multi-Polar World 239
19. X. Religion and Politics in Contemporary Democracy: A Whiteheadian Perspective 247
20. XI. Propositions in Corporations: Unconscious and Non-Conscious Experience 263
21. XII. The Curious Case of Routines: Between Deliberation and Instinct 277
22. XIII. Sociology, Societies and Sociality 293
23. XIV. Towards A Process Oriented Sociological Imagination: Linking Conceptions of Nature with Social Change and Practice 319
24. XV. Education in a Decadent Age: The Place of Process Philosophy in the Curriculum 341
25. XVI. How Can A Process Ontology Aid Philosophical Theology? 361
26. XVII. The Role of Philosophy in the University 377
27. Appendix: What is Applied Process Thought? The Editorial Introduction to Volume 1 393
28. Postcript: Professor Thomas A. F. Kelly 409
29. Abbreviations 413
30. Table of Contents 415
31. Process Thought 421