Laura Weed

Publications

◊The Structure of Thinking, a Process Oriented Account of Mind, Imprints Academic, UK, 2003

◊Editor: International Journal for Field Being, special edition on Whitehead and Science, www.ijfb.org

 ◊Solicited for upcoming publications: article on Psychological Explanations of Religion for the

Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed. Macmillan reference, Gale Group Thompson Press, Chicago, IL, 2005

 ◊Article on Epistemology for the Handbook of Terms in Religious Studies, ed. Oz

              Lorentzen  2005

◊“Kant’s Noumenon and Sunyata”  in Asian Philosophy, vol. 12 No. 2, 2002 p. 77-94

◊“Whitehead, Fa Tsang and Physics” in the International Journal for Field Being, online, special edition on Whitehead and Science, www.ijfb.org, December 2002

◊“Causation in Field Being” in the International Journal for Field Being, vol. 1 no. 2, online at

www.ijfb.org

◊“Freud and the Torah” in International Studies in Philosophy, vol. 27, no. 1, p. 127-125

Upcoming & Recently Presented Articles:

◊ “Is Causation a Mechanism or a Statistical Field?”  Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, Tucson 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2005

◊ “William James’ ‘More’, Language, Emotion, and the Meaning of Religious Experience,” at the American Philosophical Assoc. Central Division meeting in Chicago, Il, April 2005

◊ “Consciousness in Advaita Vedanta and in Cognitive Science” at the Indian Philosophy section of the Eastern division of the American Philosophical Association, Dec. 2004, Boston, MA

◊ “Contemporary Field Theories of Religious Consciousness and William James’ Marginal Consciousness” at The seventh Symposium of the International Institute for Field Being at the University of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia, August 2004

◊ “Recent Research and Religious Experience,” at the World Congress of Philosophy meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, August 2003

◊ “William James, Religious Experience and Consciousness”, at the American Philosophical Assoc. Eastern Division meeting in Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 2002

◊“The Epistemology of Religious Experience,” at the American Academy of Religion, Toronto, Canada, November, 2002

◊“W.V.O. Quine and Chinese Philosophy,” at Jiaotong University, Xian, China, Sixth Symposium of the International Institute for Field Being, August 2002

◊“Experience as the Root of Language Development,” at The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Meeting, Portland, Maine, March, 2002

◊“Philosophy of Mind, East and West,” at American Philosophical Assn. Eastern Division meeting, New York City, Dec. 2000

◊“The Contemplative Path to Natural Theology” at  American Philosophical Assn., Pacific Division Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, April, 2000,and at  American Academy of Religion, Nashville TN, Nov. 2000

◊”What does Religion contribute to Ethics?” panelist at the Capital District Secular Humanists Association, debate with Paul Kurtz