Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought

R. Baine Harris is Eminent Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Old Dominion University. He is the editor of Authority: A Philosophical Analysis, and The Structure of Being: A Neoplatonic Approach and Neoplatonism and Indian Thought, both published by SUNY Press.

• PrefaceR. Baine HarrisAcknowledgmentsI. Neoplatonism and Contemporary ScienceScience and the Great Chain of BeingHuston Smith, Syracuse UniversityScience Realism and Plotinus' Metaphysics of NatureMichael F. Wagner, University of San DiegoTeleology Revisited: A Neoplatonic Perspective in Environmental BiologyPeter Manchester, State University of New York at Stony BrookPlato, Proclus and Peirce; Abduction and the Foundations of the Logic of DiscoveryScott A. Olsen, Central Florida Community College, Ocala, FloridaNeoplatonism and the Cosmological Revolution: Holism, Fractal Geometry and Mind-in-NatureDavid Fideler, Editor, AlexandriaSome Relfections on the Neoplatonic View of Space and TimeRobert Meredith Helm, Wake Forest UniversityThe Influence of Plotinus on Bergson's Critique of Empirical ScienceCurtis L. Hancock, Rockhurst College, Kansas City, MissouriII. Neoplatonism and Contemporary PhilosophyThe Ascent of Soul to Nous: Charles S. Peirce as NeoplatonistKelly Parker, Grand Valley State UniversityAlfred North Whitehead: Between Platonism and NeoplatonismDavid Rodier, The American UniversityProcess and Eternity: Whitehead Contemplates PlotinusLewis S. Ford, Old Dominion UniversityThe Psyche, The Forms and the Creative One: Toward Reconstruction of Neoplatonic MetaphysicsAtsushi Sumi, Hanazono University, Kyoto, JapanSantayana's Christian NeoplatonismPaul G. Kuntz, Emory UniversityPlotinus and Wittgenstein on MemoryJoseph Sen, Kings College, LondonThe Neoplatonsim of Dean IngeR. Baine Harris, Old Dominion UniversityPaul Tillich's System and NeoplatonismJohn Charles Cooper, Ashbury College, Wilmore, KentuckyThe Contemporary Christian Platonism of A.H. ArmstrongJay Bregman, University of MaineNeoplatonic Background of the Metaphysics of Karl JaspersF.-P. Hager, University of ZurichThe Place of Neoplatonism in the Post-Modern WorldChristos Evangeliou, Towson UniversityContributors to Part One