Question: Whitehead believes any entity is in some sense what?
Answer: nothing more and nothing less than the sum of its relations to other entities

Question: If an object made no difference to any other entity, what could be said about it?
Answer: not be said to really exist.

Question: If relations are not secondary to what a thing is, what is it?
Answer: they are what the thing is

Question: What makes up the sum of relations to an entity?
Answer: rld around it

Question: A real object forces the universe to do what?
Answer: in some way conform to it

Question: In what areas of the world has interest in Whitehead's work spread in recent decades?
Answer: Europe and China

Question: Who was one of the first theologians to try to interact with Whitehead's ideas?
Answer: William Temple

Question: What was the basis for "Nature, Man and God"?
Answer: Temple's Gifford Lectures of 1932-1934

Question: According to Isabelle Stengers, what are unifying factors in diverse practices (like ecology and feminism) that have become interested in Whitehead's work?
Answer: practices that unite political struggle and spirituality with the sciences of education

Question: What other fields have shown more recent interest in Whitehead's work?
Answer: ecology, physics, biology, education, economics, and psychology

Question: Where were the first followers mainly found?
Answer: at the University of Chicago's Divinity School

Question: Who began the interest in Whitehead at Chicago's Divinity School?
Answer: Henry Nelson Wieman

Question: Who id the most well-known Whitehead scholar?
Answer: John B. Cobb

Question: What professors established the importance of Whitehead's work?
Answer: Wieman, Charles Hartshorne, Bernard Loomer, Bernard Meland, and Daniel Day Williams

Question: Where is interest in Whitehead's work growing the fastest today?
Answer: China

Question: What challenges are China using Whitehead's ideas to help manage?
Answer: modernization and industrialization

Question: What types of traditions are China blending with Whitehead's "constructive post-modern" philosophy?
Answer: traditions of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism

Question: What philosphers' writings are becoming required reading for graduate students in China?
Answer: John Cobb and David Ray Griffin

Question: Why does John Cobb believe China has become interested in process philosophy?
Answer: interdependence of humanity and nature, as well as his emphasis on an educational system that includes the teaching of values rather than simply bare facts

Question: what is an example of Whitehead's ideas being counter-intuitive?
Answer: his assertion that matter is an abstraction

Question: Why do some people believe Whitehead's writings may have restricted his influence?
Answer: the sheer difficulty and density of his prose

Question: What is a common opinion of metaphysics?
Answer: perception of metaphysics itself as passé

Question: What is the general opinion of Whitehead in most philosophical schools?
Answer: Whitehead has not been recognized as particularly influential within the most dominant philosophical schools

Question: What philosophy is closely related to process philosophy?
Answer: American pragmatism

Question: What pragmatists did Whitehead acknowledge in the preface to "Process and Reality"?
Answer: William James and John Dewey

Question: Who is a philosopher that promotes process philosophy and pragmatism currently?
Answer: Nicholas Rescher

Question: What founder of pragmatism's collected papers did Charles Hartshorne ans Paul Weiss edit?
Answer: Charles Sanders Peirce

Question: What important neopragmatist was Harthorne's student?
Answer: Richard Rorty

Question: How was Whitehead's theory of gravitation received?
Answer: It has been severely criticized

Question: What physicists in the field of quantum theory have been influenced by Whitehead?
Answer: Henry Stapp and David Bohm

Question: What affect  did the discovery of gravitational waves have on Whitehead's theory?
Answer: Whitehead's view has now been rendered obsolete, with the discovery of gravitational waves

Question: What are gravitational waves?
Answer: phenonena observed locally that largely violate the kind of local flatness of space that Whitehead assumes

Question: How must Whiteheads cosmology now be considered?
Answer: Whitehead's cosmology must be regarded as a local approximation

Question: What award did Cobb and Daly receive for the book?
Answer: Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order

Question: What was the first book on environmental ethics by an individual author?
Answer: Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology

Question: On which economics book did Cobb collaborate with Herman Daly?
Answer: For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future

Question: What other economics book did Cobb go on to author?
Answer: Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy

Question: What was the goal of Cobb's second book on economics?
Answer: to challenge "economists' zealous faith in the great god of growth."

Question: Who established the FEELS model in China?
Answer: Xie Bangxiu

Question: What does "FEELS" stand for?
Answer: Flexible-goals, Engaged-learner, Embodied-knowledge, Learning-through-interactions, and Supportive-teacher

Question: What is the purpose of the FEELS model?
Answer: It is used for understanding and evaluating educational curriculum under the assumption that the purpose of education is to "help a person become whole."

Question: What entities are working together to promote the FEELS model?
Answer: Chinese government organizations and the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China

Question: What prominent business professor has been heavily influenced by Whitehead?
Answer: Mark Dibben

Question: What does Dibben call his philosophy on management and business administration?
Answer: "applied process thought"

Question: In what fields has Dibben published two books and other papers?
Answer: philosophy of management and business ethics

Question: What business fields has Whitehead influenced?
Answer: philosophy of business administration and organizational theory

Question: According to Dibben, what are the benefits of applying process metaphysics to examining management and business administration as a component of social science?
Answer: this allows "a comprehensive exploration of life as perpetually active experiencing, as opposed to occasional – and thoroughly passive – happening."

Question: During which decade did Whitehead's focus start shifting away from mathematics?
Answer: 1910s

Question: After moving away from mathematics, what subjects did Whitehead explore?
Answer: philosophy of science, and finally to metaphysics

Question: As opposed to physical objects, what did Whitehead believe reality is composed of?
Answer: processes

Question: What was the predominant theory of reality that Whitehead opposed?
Answer: reality is fundamentally constructed by bits of matter that exist independently of one another

Question: What book of Whitehead's is now considered a primary source of process philosophy?
Answer: Process and Reality

Question: What did Whitehead first study?
Answer: mathematics

Question: What was Whitehead's second area of study?
Answer: philosophy

Question: What was Whitehead's final area of study?
Answer: metaphysics

Question: What type of system did he develop?
Answer: metaphysical

Question: What did Whitehead argue reality consists of?
Answer: processes

Question: Where was Alfred North Whitehead born?
Answer: Ramsgate, Kent, England

Question: In what year was Whitehead born?
Answer: 1861

Question: Who founded Chatham House Academy?
Answer: Thomas Whitehead, Alfred North's grandfather

Question: What was Whitehead's father's profession?
Answer: minister and schoolmaster of Chatham House Academy