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Analysis of 4D seismic timeshifts overburden and its relation with the geomechanical model of reservoirs in a Campos Basin field
Authors: Cardoso Carlos Américo Reis , Moraes Fernando Sérgio de , Lima Kledson Tomaso de Pereira e 
Published: December 2022

This paper seeks to interpret the 4D seismic timeshifts in the overburden of a conventional turbidite sandstone reservoir in the Campos Basin and to calculate an empirical factor of sensitivity between these 4D data and the geomechanical deformations. Gaining information on how the production of the reservoir affects the surrounding rocks is of great interest for the management of oil fields, with impacts ranging from optimization of production to the safety of operations and workers. The study of timeshift anomalies are common in chalk fields and unconventional fields of high temperature or pressure. We used two techniques for timeshift calculations, cross-correlation and DTW, as well as structural attributes that are calculated to assist in interpretations. Then, we estimate the sensitivity factor, which allows the construction of synthetic 4D timeshifts from the deformations simulated by the geomechanical model. In most of the field regions there was agreement between simulated deformations and 4D anomalies, showing that it is possible to extract useful information for reservoir management. The estimate of the sensitivity factor indicates that the overburden studied is sensitive to deformations in the rocks, allowing that small deformations can be detected by the given 4D seismic.
Mill Creek Chert Hoes and Prairie Soils
Authors: Hammerstedt Scott W. , Hughes Erin R. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Population growth in the American Bottom after A.D. 1050 may have outstripped agricultural productivity. It has been suggested that farmers expanded agricultural practices into previously unused upland prairies to expand production. Historic accounts describe the difficulty that early settlers had with prairie, making this supposition questionable. However, experiments with replica Mill Creek hoes suggest that these tools were capable of converting prairie into farmland.
On the Age of Serpent Mound
Authors: Lepper Bradley T. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Radiocarbon dates reported by Romain and colleagues (2017) suggesting that Serpent Mound (33AD1) is an Adena effigy mound are problematic because they cannot be linked reliably to cultural activities associated with the original construction of the effigy mound. Additional arguments offered by Romain and colleagues (2017) in support of an Early Woodland age for Serpent Mound also are unconvincing. A Late Prehistoric age for Serpent Mound is supported by the radiocarbon dates reported previously, new radiocarbon dates, the relative abundance of serpent imagery in the Fort Ancient culture and the contemporaneous Mississippian Tradition, the virtual absence of serpent imagery in the Adena culture, and the fact that, whereas effigy-mound building is otherwise unknown in the Early Woodland period, it is well documented, if rare, for the Fort Ancient culture and in the not-so-terribly-far-away upper Midwest it is so common that it defines the broadly contemporaneous Effigy Mound culture.
Uncovering Huber Lifeways
Authors: McLeester Madeleine , Schurr Mark R. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
This article reports on recent findings from the ongoing archaeological project at the single- component early seventeenth-century Huber phase site, Middle Grant Creek (11WI2739), located at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Will County, Illinois. Excavations and geophysical surveys conducted over the past four years are yielding valuable data that are expanding our understandings of this critical period just prior to European colonialism. Findings have revealed a wide range of protohistoric activities, including foodways, skilled craft production, and ceremonial activities as well as far-flung trade relationships that illustrate the endurance of Indigenous trade networks into at least the early seventeenth-century. This article introduces the latest findings from Middle Grant Creek and brings them into discussions of this key period in Midwestern archaeology.
Bladelets and Middle Woodland Situations in Southern Ohio
Authors: Miller G. Logan 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Chipped-stone bladelets are common at Middle Woodland sites throughout Ohio and many other areas of the midcontinent, reflecting both broad patterns and local diversity characteristic of situations as explored in this special issue. In previous studies, bladelets were often viewed through dichotomous categories such as sacred and secular. In this article, I attempt to break down these artificial oppositions imposed by archaeologists and refocus the interpretation of these artifacts using notions of situations and assemblages. I argue that doing so provides new insights into the use of bladelets at sites throughout southern Ohio and beyond. The related concepts of citations and capacities help illustrate the connections between bladelets and other material elements of Middle Woodland institutions. Examination of bladelet use illustrates how situations lead to shared conditions of action while individuals engage in multiple outcomes during manifestations of Middle Woodland ceremonies.
How Did Whitehead Become Einstein’s Antagonist? On Poincaré and Whitehead
Authors: Desmet Ronny 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Whitehead was critical with respect to Poincaré’s conventionalism. However, Whitehead stood closer to Poincaré than Bertrand Russell when Russell invoked Poincaré’s conventionalism to highlight that the choice between Arthur Eddington’s orthodox interpretation of Einstein’s general theory of relativity on the one hand, and Whitehead’s alternative interpretation on the other, is not a matter of empirical fact, but a matter of convention. Whitehead shared two of the premises of Poincaré’s conventionalism: the physics-independence of geometry, and the choice of a physical geometry amongst geometries of constant curvature. This contributed significantly to his philosophical critique of Einstein, who held that the geometry of space-time depends on the physical distribution of matter, and that the non-homogeneity of this distribution (e.g., at the scale of the solar system) implies that the appropriate physical geometry is variably curved. Russell’s conventionalism, contrary to Whitehead’s view, did not take Poincaré’s premises into account, was shared by the logical positivists, and led to a philosophical defense of Einstein.
Marcuse and Eternal Objects
Authors: Moore Duston 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
This essay presents what is at stake in Marcuse’s reference to Whitehead’s theory of eternal objects in chapter eight of One-Dimensional Man. There is a fecund philosophical affinity between Marcuse’s Critical Theory and Whitehead’s metaphysical alternative. The introduction parses Marcuse’s citation of Whitehead, explaining how the Critical Theory employs eternal objects. Thus a correlate aim of this essay is to provide a charitable reading of Marcuse with attention to Whiteheadian undercurrents and concerns.
Non-Rigid Forms: Retractions and Revisions
Authors: Ford Lewis S. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
In "Non-Rigid Forms" I characterized possibilities as indefinite forms, in contrast to the definite forms (eternal objects) of actualities. This did not do justice to the atemporality of eternal objects. Indefinite forms ought to be construed as dense clusters of eternal objects. By progressive definition God specifies relevant possibilities to the occasion, which determines one to become actual.
A Letter of Grateful and Affectionate Response to David Ray Griffin’s "Whitehead’s Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance"
Authors: Neville Robert C. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
David R. Griffin’s new Whitehead’s Radically Different Post-modern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007) contains a chapter-long Whiteheadian response to several criticisms I have leveled against process theology. While encouraging his attempt to promote Whitehead as a preferred alternative to foundationalist modernism and postmodernism, I undertake to rebut Griffin’s arguments through discussions of the following topics: the one and the many (which Whitehead does not treat adequately), the finite versus infinite character of God, creation ex nihilo, the nature of determinateness and the need for every determinate thing to have a creator, the applicability of the Ontological Principle to explaining a complex of first principles, the inclusion of time within ontological eternity, the goodness versus wildness of God, the nature of religious experience, and the uses of religious language.
Minjung Messiah and Process Panentheism
Authors: Kim Hiheon 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
This paper attempts to reinterpret the idea of minjung messiah, a major doctrine of Korean minjung theology, in order to reveal its nondualistic understanding of Christian eschatology, by using process non-substantialist metaphysics. In a dialogue with process panentheism, minjung theology gets philosophical languages to articulate its organic ideas of the relationships between historical liberation and eschatological salvation, minjung’s self-transcendence and divine providence, and history and the Kingdom of God.
Is Mutual Transformation Possible?: The Dialogue Between Process and Evangelical Theologies
Authors: Culp John 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
The absence of clear definitions for both "evangelical" and "process" theology opens the way for dialogue. The dialogue can be expanded beyond past dialogues and previous types of relationship. Two essays in this section propose creative conceptualities of God’s relationship to the world that seek to overcome limited evangelical and process understandings by drawing upon resources within each tradition. The other two essays suggest adding voices to the discussion that have not been heard clearly previously.
The World’s Participation in God’s Trinitarian Life
Authors: Powell Samuel M. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Like process theism, Christian theology affirms the immanence of God in the world and of the world in God. Unlike process theism, it also affirms the ontological priority of God over the world. As a result, Christian theologians will object to describing God’s relation to the world by analogy with the mind’s relation to the body or in terms of whole-part relations. In Christian history, the God-world relation has been more often described in terms of "participation." The world is said to participate in God, keeping in mind that this language is highly metaphorical. The idea of participation is a development of themes enunciated by Plato and Aristotle, but adapted by Christian theologians to trinitarian ends. The created world participates in God by reflecting the trinitarian life of identity and difference. This establishes an organic and internal relation between God and the world.
On the Trail of Whitehead: Part One: The Spy Who Came in to Take Notes (with Apologies to John le Carré)
Authors: Lucas George R. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
A young Canadian mathematician and philosopher, Winthrop Bell, who was Edmund Husserl’s first doctoral student from North America, taught as a postdoc at Harvard in the 1920s, where he took a complete set of notes in the first class at Harvard taught by Alfred North Whitehead during the 1924-1925 academic year. These notes, missing for over 80 years, have recently been found. The notes transform scholarship concerning the early development of Whitehead s mature metaphysical views, while the note-taker’s own career illuminates a remarkable collaboration between the pragmatists in the U. S. and Canada and the early phenomenology movement in Europe, an intellectual exchange that was shattered during the tumultuous events of World War I and its aftermath.
Processes of Aging: Ontogenetic Perspectives on Life, Nutrition, and Longevity
Authors: Campolina Alessandro Gonçalves 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Whiteheadian concepts of life, food, "empty" and "occupied space" provide a theoretical basis to unpack an ontogenetic perspective on aging. Focusing on the so-called "Selective Optimization with Compensation" (SOC) strategy, this work will explore this concept in relation to some scientific evidence in the fields of "epigenetics" and molecular nutrition. Further, the role of caloric restriction in health and longevity will be discussed as a SOC strategy, based on the metabolic theory of aging. SOC strategy applied to the processes of aging, when linked with Whiteheadfs philosophy of organism, makes it possible for us to think about life as a selective process provided by "empty space." A continuum within the physical field optimizes a "living society," which evolves in permanent social deficit, by means of compensation by nutritional metabolism.
Chora and Identity: Whitehead’s Re-Appropriation of Plato’s Receptacle
Authors: Mingarelli Eleonora 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
The chora is one of the most perplexing as well as neglected concepts in Whitehead’s metaphysics. Explicitly drawing on Plato’s Receptacle Whitehead reinterprets the chora as the place, in between physics and meta-physics, where connections among actual entities happen. However, the relation between Whitehead’s and Plato’s chorai remains widely unexplored. This article aims to correct this oversight. By comparing the two philosophers, I intend to argue that, differences aside, the two philosophers adopted the chora to answer the common question as to how things can be identified in the flux of events. In this way, I hope not only to clarify the obscure role of the chora in Whitehead’s metaphysics and its relation to Plato, but also to explore the complex process of identification.
Explorations and Emendations
Authors: Ford Lewis S. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
These seven short essays record several recent explorations together with some corrections to earlier views which need revision in the light of further evidence. Topics considered include temporal atomism, a critique of nontemporal concresence, divine subjectivity and conceptual activity, a re-examination of physical purpose and negative prehension, and an alternate theory of life and mind.
God Almighty and God All-Loving: A Review Article of David Ray Griffin’s "God Exists But Gawd Does Not"
Authors: Viney Donald Wayne 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Griffin’s book contributes to the literature of cumulative arguments for God’s existence, revealing the deficiencies of the "God Almighty" of traditional theism (i.e., Gawd) and the strengths of a Whiteheadian process theism (i.e., God). Since the concept of omnipotence is central, it is imperative to note that there are three ideas of divine power in traditional theism, not always carefully parsed by Griffin. Evolutionary theory requires rethinking theism, but, contrary to Griffin, many of the problems posed by the theory are less for belief in Gawd than for fundamentalism. Nevertheless, an interactive dipolar deity fits most naturally with evolutionary thinking to provide a concept of God All-Loving. Griffin is at his best discussing the ground of abstract truths. He does not, however, avail himself of some of the best arguments against traditional theism found in Hartshorne’s work; there is also the question whether Griffin would accept Hartshorne’s idea of the modal coincidence of God’s existence and all possibility and how this would affect his cumulative case.
Bad with Names: Replacing "Animal" with Whitehead’s Insistent Particularity of Bodies
Authors: Donaldson Brianne 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
In the history of Western thought the "animal" is a general idea devoid of the details of particularity. Whitehead poses a nuanced challenge to us: how to perceive each abstract "animal" as a concrete body. To becom "bad with names" is an invitation to exchange reductionist designations with new language for individual creatures that populate the amorphous category of "animal." Derrida, Deleuze, and Guattari, along with Whitehead, suggest ways in which we might understand the idea that there are no "animals," only radically particular bodies.
Process-Relational Theology, Pentecostalism, and Postmodernism: Opportunities for Socio-Religious Transformation
Authors: Reichard Joshua D. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
This article is a critical exploration of compatibilities between Pentecostal-Charismatic theology and Process-Relational theology. The purpose of the investigation is to identify similarities that provide sufficient ground for mutual dialogue and transformation between the two traditions. Postmodernism is identified as a context in which such dialogue can occur, insofar as both the Pentecostal-Charismatic movements and Process-Relational theology are understood as reactions to modernism. The theological theme of "concursus," the way in which God and humanity interact, is briefly explored as a point of contact. Several social and ecclesial implications of mutual transformation are identified. Ecclesial implications of mutual transformation include a renewal of Process-Relational spirituality, an intellectualization of Pentecostal-Charismatic experience, ecumenical dialogue between evangelical and mainline denominations, and tempered operation of the charismata for Pentecostals. Social implications of mutual transformation include the possibility for positive social change, concern for healing and justice, and an increased cosmic concern. Ultimately, inasmuch as Pentecostalism is identified as an "experience in search of a theology," Process-Relational theism is identified as a "theology in search of an experience." Through dialogue and engagement, both the Pentecostal-Charismatic and Process-Relational traditions may gain a stronger and more holistic sense of humanity, God, and reality.
The Plight of a Theoretical Deity: A Response to Suchocki’s "The Dynamic God"
Authors: Conner David Emory 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
In Process Studies 39.1 Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki draws renewed attention to one of the formative issues within early process theology—the question of whether God may best be understood as a single actual entity, as Whitehead had said, or as a serially ordered or personally ordered society of occasions. Suchocki’s support for Whitehead’s original thinking is a welcome event. Unfortunately, Suchocki employs the term "dynamic" to disguise an unresolved incompatibility between temporal and non-temporal process in God. This makes her overall position unstable, if not untentable. A second criticism is that methodologically Suchocki relies almost entirely on logical inferences drawn from previously accepted concepts, making her argument insufficiently empirical. Some brief suggestions are offered as hints for ways in which these problems might be resolved.
Flux and Openness: Dissolving Fixity in Whitehead’s Vision of Process
Authors: Santilli Nicolo 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
In his various lectures and writings, Whitehead articulates an evolving metaphysical vision in which process and relationship, rather than stasis and independent fixity, are primary. In so doing he performs a valuable philosophical service, pointing the way towards liberation from certain constraining assumptions and habits of thought. However, there are components of his vision that retain elements of fixity and separateness. I find these to be the aspects of his philosophy that are the most problematic, both in respect to internal conceptual coherency and in relation to my own philosophical and spiritual vision. My intention is to elucidate some of the ways in which these components of his philosophy are problematic, and to present an alternative vision in which these elements of fixity and ontological separateness dissolve into a dynamic openness of flux and interrelationship.
A Critique of Whitehead in Light of the Buddhist Distinction of the Two-Truth Doctrine
Authors: Aramaki Noritoshi 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
We need to distinguish systematically what is culturally creative from the degenerative forces that now rule the world. Whitehead comes closest to defining the creative when he identifies it as freedom on the human side and peace on the divine. Buddhist meditation can go deeper to realize the zerodimension of the communal life-as-such, which corresponds to Whiteheadean freedom-and-peace as the ultimate wellspring of cultural creativity.
Landing the Plane in the World of Finance
Authors: Cobby John B. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Because so little work in most fields of thought has been done from a Whiteheadian perspective, bringing that perspective to bear often highlights what has been little noticed. This essay seeks to contribute to the understanding of the financial crisis and to propose responses from a Whiteheadian perspective. At the same time it reflects explicitly on the difference that this perspective makes as well as the continuing dependence on the work of those who have approached matters from other perspectives.
All Causality Occurs in a Present: G.H. Mead’s Proposal to Process Philosophy
Authors: Towne Edgar A. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
G.H. Mead and A.N. Whitehead agree that all causation occurs in a present, that the self is social, and that philosophical description of the new physics of relativity and quantum mechanics is a complicated task. I explore this complexity in relation to the knowledge of events unable to be observed here and now, especiallypast historical events. The integration of the two philosophers’ views is shown in reference to Whitehead’s criteria of respect for facts and coherence. By reference to the work of Palmyre Oomen I show the inconsistency of Whitehead’s treatment of the prehensibility of God’s consequent nature with his claim that God is not an exception to the metaphysical principles. The integration of Mead’s and Whitehead’s views permits plausible talk about past, present, and future consisent with our scientific knowledge.
The Multiverse Conjecture: Whitehead’s Cosmic Epochs and Contemporary Cosmology
Authors: McHenry Leemon 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Recent developments in cosmology and particle physics have led to speculation that our universe is merely one of a multitude of universes. While this notion, the multiverse hypothesis, is highly contested as legitimate science, it has nonetheless struck many physicists as a necessary consequence of the effort to construct a final, unified theory. In Process and Reality (1929), his magnum opus, Alfred North Whitehead advanced a cosmology as part of his general metaphysics of process. Part of this project involved a theory of cosmic epochs which bears a remarkable affinity to current cosmological speculation. This paper demonstrates how the basic framework of a multiverse theory is already present in Whitehead’s cosmology and defends the necessity of speculation in the quest for an explanatory description.