Leemon B. McHenry
PUBLICATIONS
(Revised July 28, 2016)
Books
Authored
The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
Whitehead and Bradley: A Comparative Analysis, SUNY Series in Systematic Philosophy, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
Edited
The Importance of Subjectivity: Selected Essays on Metaphysics and Ethics, by T. L. S. Sprigge, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Philosophy: The Classic Readings, University Readers: San Diego, 2010.
Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2009.
Consciousness, Reality and Value: Philosophical Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge, co-editor with Pierfrancesco Basile, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007.
American Philosophers, 1950-2000, Volume 279 in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography, co-editor with Philip B. Dematteis, Detroit: Gale, 2003.
American Philosophers to 1950, Volume 270 in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography, co-editor with Philip B. Dematteis, Detroit: Gale, 2002.
British Philosophers, 1800-2000, Volume 262 in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography, co-editor with Philip B. Dematteis and Peter S. Fosl, Detroit: Gale, 2002.
Reflections on Philosophy: Introductory Essays, co-editor with Frederick Adams, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993; 2nd edition, co-editor with Takashi Yagisawa, New York: Longman, 2003; 3rd edition, University Readers: San Diego, 2010.
Chapters in Books
“Introduction,” T. L. S. Sprigge, The Importance of Subjectivity: Selected Essays on Metaphysics and Ethics, edited by Leemon McHenry, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. ix-xi.
“Sprigge’s Ontology of Consciousness,” The Metaphysics of Consciousness, Supplement issue of Philosophy: The Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, Vol. 85, edited by Pierfrancesco Basile, Julian Kiverstein and Pauline Phemister, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 5-20.
“Popper and Maxwell on Scientific Progress,” Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell, edited by Leemon McHenry, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2009, pp. 233-248.
“Commercial Influences on the Pursuit of Wisdom,” Wisdom in the University, edited by Ronald Barnett and Nicholas Maxwell, London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 35-46. (Reprinted from London Review of Education)
“Extension and the Theory of the Physical Universe,” for Chapter IX “Metaphysics,” “Victor Lowe 1907-1988” and “Dorothy Emmet 1904-2000” for Chapter XIX “Biographical Entries,” Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volumes I and II, edited by Michel Weber and William Desmond, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008, pp. 291-302, 611-614, 651-655.
“Ethical Issues in Psychopharmacology,” Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Drugs and Society, 8th edition, edited by Raymond Goldberg, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008, pp. 238-249; 9th edition, 2010, pp. 216-227. (Reprinted from Journal of Medical Ethics)
“T. L. S. Sprigge, The Last Idealist,” Chromatikon III. Annuaire de la philosophie en procès edited by Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile, Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires du Louvain, 2007, pp. 282-289. (Reprinted in The Philosopher: The Journal of the Philosophical Society of England, LXXXXVII/2, 2009.)
“Sprigge’s Philosophical Idealism,” Consciousness, Reality and Value: Philosophical Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge, edited by Pierfrancesco Basile and Leemon McHenry, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007, pp. 11-26. (Reprinted from Bradley Studies)
“Maxwell’s Field and Whitehead’s Events: The Adventure of a Revolutionary Idea,” Subjectivity, Process and Rationality, edited by Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007, pp. 177-189.
"Quine and Whitehead: Ontology and Methodology," Process and Analysis: Whitehead, Hartshorne and the Analytic Tradition, edited by George Shields, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003, pp. 157-170. (Reprinted from Process Studies)
"Introduction," with Philip B. Dematteis, American Philosophers, 1950-2000, Volume 279 in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by Philip B. Dematteis and Leemon McHenry, Detroit: Gale, 2003, pp. xvii-xx.
“Introduction,” American Philosophers to 1950, Volume 270 in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by Philip B. Dematteis and Leemon McHenry, Detroit: Gale, 2002, pp. xvii-xx.
"Alfred North Whitehead," and "Timothy L. S. Sprigge, "British Philosophers, 1800-2000, Volume 262 in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by Philip B. Dematteis, Peter S. Fosl, and Leemon McHenry, Detroit: Gale, 2002, pp. 266-274, 304-319.
"Bradley's Conception of Metaphysics," in Perspectives on the Logic and Metaphysics of F H Bradley, edited by W. J. Mander, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996, pp. 159-175.
"Introduction," "Metaphysics," "Writing Philosophical Papers," and Glossary of Reflections on Philosophy: Introductory Essays, edited by Leemon McHenry and Frederick Adams, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, pp. 1-9, 35-51, 205-211, 211-221; substantial revision of “Metaphysics” for 2nd edition, New York: Longman, 2003.
"First Philosophical Publications," and "Pan-Physics: Whitehead's Philosophy of Natural Science," of Victor Lowe's Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work, Volume II: 1910-1947, edited by J. B. Schneewind, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, pp. 89-130.
Encyclopedia Entries
“CHANGE,” and “FALLACY OF MISPLACED CONCRETENESS” for American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, New York and London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 95-96, 281.
“EMMET, Dorothy Mary (1904-2000)” and "SPRIGGE, Timothy Lauro Squire (1932-)" Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers, edited by Stuart Brown, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2005, pp. 266-268, 988-990; SPRIGGE entry reprinted in Biographical Encyclopedia of British Idealism, edited by William Sweet, London: Continuum, 2010, pp. 645-47.
Articles (in Peer Reviewed Journals)
Philosophy
“Analytical Critiques of Whitehead's Metaphysics,” with George W. Shields, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, forthcoming, 2016.
“Quine and Whitehead on Ontological Reduction: Properties Reconsidered,” with Christine Holmgren, Process Studies, 41.2, 2012, pp. 261-286.
“Whitehead’s Multiverse,” Journal of Cosmology, 20, 2012, pp. 8702-8706.
“The Multiverse Conjecture: Whitehead’s Cosmic Epochs and Contemporary Cosmology,” Process Studies, 40.1, 2011, pp. 5-25.
“Consciousness and Morality in the Philosophy of T. L. S. Sprigge,” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 24/2, 2010, pp. 121-137.
“Commercial Influences on the Pursuit of Wisdom,” London Review of Education, 5, 2007, pp. 131-142; reprinted and translated into Spanish by Antoni Furió as “La mercantilización del saber: Influencias mercantiles en la búsqueda del conocimiento,” Pasajes: Revista de Pensamiento Contemporaneo, 33, 2010, pp. 31-41.
“Sprigge's Philosophical Idealism,” Bradley Studies, 9/2, 2003, pp. 109-125.
“Whitehead, Quantum Mechanics and Local Realism,” Process Studies, 31.1, 2002, pp. 164-170.
“The Ontology of the Past: Whitehead and Santayana,” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 14/3, 2000, pp. 219-231.
"Naturalized and Pure Metaphysics: A Reply to Hutto," Bradley Studies, 4/1, 1998, pp. 97-101.
"Quine and Whitehead: Ontology and Methodology," Process Studies, The Forum, 26, 1997, pp. 2-12.
"Descriptive and Revisionary Theories of Events," Process Studies, Special issue on Process and Analytical Philosophy, 25, 1996, pp. 90-103.
"Whitehead's Panpsychism as the Subjectivity of Prehension," Process Studies, Special Issue on Prehension, 24, 1995, pp. 1-14.
"Quine's Pragmatic Ontology," The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 9/2, 1995, pp. 147-158.
"Whitehead's Approximation to Bradley," with Lewis S. Ford, Idealistic Studies, 23/2 & 3, Spring/Fall, 1993, pp. 103-109.
"Bradley, James and Whitehead on Relations," The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 3/3, 1989, pp. 149-169.
"The Philosophical Writings of Victor A. Lowe: 1907-1988," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, XXV, 3, 1989, pp. 331-339.
"The Axiomatic Matrix of Whitehead's Process and Reality," Process Studies, 15/3, 1986, pp.172-180.
"Time, Relations and Dependence," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, XXI/3, 1983, pp. 405-419.
Medicine and Bioethics
“The Citalopram CIT-MD-18 Pediatric Depression Trial: A Deconstruction of Medical Ghostwriting, Data Manipulation and Academic Malfeasance,” with Jay Amsterdam and Jon Jureidini, International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, 28, 2016, pp. 33-43.
“Blood Money: Bayer’s Inventory of HIV Contaminated Blood Products and Third World Hemophiliacs,” with Mellad M. Khoshnood, Accountability in Research, 21, 2014, pp. 389-400.
“On the Proposed Changes to the Credibility Gap in Industry-Supported Biomedical Research: A Critical Evaluation” with Jon Jureidini, Ethical Human Psychology & Psychiatry, 14/3, 2012, pp. 156-161.
“The Paroxetine 352 Bipolar Trial: A Study in Medical Ghostwriting,” with Jay D.
Amsterdam, International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, 24/4, 2012, pp. 221-231.
“Challenging Medical Ghostwriting in the U.S. Courts,” with Xavier Bosch and Bijan Esfandiari, PLoS Medicine, 9(1), 2012, e1001163. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001163.
“Conflicted Medical Journals and the Failure of Trust,” with Jon Jureidini, Accountability in Research, 18, 2011, pp. 45-54.
“Of Sophists and Spin-Doctors: Industry-Sponsored Ghostwriting and the Crisis of Academic Medicine,” Mens Sana Monographs, 8, 2010, pp. 129-145.
“Ghosts in the Machine: Comment on Sismondo,” Social Studies of Science, 39/6, 2009. pp. 943-947.
“Privatization of Knowledge and the Creation of Biomedical Conflicts of Interest,” with Jon Jureidini, The Journal of Ethics in Mental Health, 4/1 Suppl., 2009, pp. 1-6.
“Key Opinion Leaders and Pediatric Antidepressant Overprescribing,” with Jon Jureidini, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 78, 2009, pp. 197-201.
“Industry-Sponsored Ghostwriting in Clinical Trial Reporting: A Case Study,” with Jon Jureidini, Accountability in Research, 15/3, 2008, pp. 152-167.
“Clinical Trials and Drug Promotion: Selective Reporting of Study 329,” with Jon Jureidini and Peter Mansfield, International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine, 20, 2008, pp. 73-81.
“Biomedical Research and Corporate Interests: A Question of Academic Freedom,” Mens Sana Monographs, 6, 2008, pp. 146-156.
"Ethical Issues in Psychopharmacology,” Journal of Medical Ethics, 32, 2006, pp. 405-410.
“On the Origin of Great Ideas: Science in the Age of Big Pharma,” Hasting Center Report, 35, no. 6, 2005, pp. 17-19.
Reviews
Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time by Tim Maudlin, Process Studies, 41.2, 2012, pp. 349-353.
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression by David Healy, Mens Sana Monographs, 5/1, 2007, pp. 228-232.
The God of Metaphysics, by T. L. S. Sprigge, Process Studies, 2007, pp. 146-150.
Is Science Neurotic? by Nicholas Maxwell, The Review of Metaphysics, 2006, pp. 657-659.
From an Ontological Point of View, by John Heil, The Review of Metaphysics, 2004, pp. 620-622.
The Comprehensibility of the Universe, by Nicholas Maxwell, Mind, 109/433, January, 2000, pp. 162-166.
Unsnarling the World Knot: Consciousness, Freedom and the Mind-Body Problem, by David Ray Griffin, Faith and Philosophy, 16/2, April, 1999, pp. 269-272.
Philosophers and Friends, by Dorothy Emmet, Process Studies, 26/3-4, 1997, pp. 338-339.
From Physics to Metaphysics, by Michael Redhead, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, XVI/1, February, 1996, pp. 48-49.
An Introduction to Bradley's Metaphysics, by W. J. Mander, Mind, 105/417, January, 1996, pp. 178-181.
Filozofia procesu i jej metafilozofia, by Piotr Gutowski, Process Studies, 24/1, 1995, pp. 96-99.
Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology, by William Craig and Quentin Smith, Philosophical Books, 36/3, July 1995, pp. 211-213.
Against Relativism: A Philosophical Defense of Method, by James F. Harris, The Review of Metaphysics, March, 1994, pp. 619-621.
The Disappearance of Time: Kurt Gödel and the Idealistic Tradition in Philosophy, by Palle Yourgrau, Mind, 103/409, January, 1994, pp. 108-111.
A Philosophical Examination of the History and Values of Western Medicine, by Paul W. Sharkey, Scholarly Research and Review, Spring, 1993, pp. 125-126.
The Passage of Nature, by Dorothy Emmet, The Review of Metaphysics, December, 1992, pp. 401-402.
The New Aspects of Time: Its Continuity and Novelties, by Milič Čapek, The Review of Metaphysics, March, 1992, pp. 604-605.
Events and Their Names, by Jonathan Bennett, The Review of Metaphysics, September, 1989, pp. 148-149.
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, by Stephen W. Hawking, The Review of Metaphysics, March, 1989, pp. 626-628.
Irrationality: An Essay on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Self-Control, by Alfred R. Mele, The Review of Metaphysics, March, 1988, pp. 628-631.
Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work, Volume I: 1861-1910, by Victor Lowe, Philosophical Books, July, 1986, pp. 148-150.
The Vindication of Absolute Idealism, by T. L. S. Sprigge, Process Studies, Spring, 1986, pp. 71-73.
The Emergence of Whitehead's Metaphysics, by Lewis Ford, The Review of Metaphysics, March, 1986, pp. 563-566.
The Effectiveness of Causes, by Dorothy Emmet, The Review of Metaphysics, December, 1985, pp. 351-353.
Non-Peer Review Publications
“Of Brahmins and Dalits in the Academic Caste System,” with Paul W. Sharkey, Academe, January-February 2014, pp. 35-38.
“’Any Reasonable Person’ Would See Glaxo Study as Fraud” with Jon Jureidini, The Chronicle of Higher Education. October 8, 2012.
Edited manuscript of T. L. S. Sprigge’s The Phenomenology of Thought, Edinburgh University Library, 2009.
"The Case Against Catholicism: A Historical and Philosophical Analysis," The American Rationalist, Part 1, July/August, 2004, pp. 8-10, Part 2, September/October, 2004, pp. 6-10.
Index of Articles, Discussions and Book Reviews: Process Studies, 21 – 29 (1992-2000) 30/1, 2001, pp.184-203.
“Maxwell’s Philosophy of Wisdom,” Karl Jaspers Forum, www.kjf.ca/28-C7MCH.htm, 2001.
"Alfred North Whitehead," 25th Anniversary Reflections, Center for Process Studies, 1998, p.1.
Blogs
“Alfred North Whitehead and the Edinburgh Connection,” Feb 15, 2016, http://euppublishingblog.com/category/philosophy/.
WORK IN PROGRESS OR SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION
“Whitehead and Russell on the Analysis of Matter,” edited by Christoph Kann and Dennis Sölch, Whitehead und Russell, Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber, forthcoming 2017.
“Whitehead’s Panpsychism and Deep Ecology,” Conceiving an Alternative: Philosophical Resources for an Ecological Civilization, edited by Demian Wheeler and David Connor, Toward an Ecological Civilization Series, Anoka, Minnesota: Process Century Press, forthcoming 2017.
“Industry-Corrupted Psychiatric Trials,” with Jay D. Amsterdam and Jon N. Jureidini, International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology
The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine, with Jon Jureidini, under contract with Springer in the series Boston Studies in the Philosophy & History of Science.
Editing Volume 3 – The Lectures of Whitehead: Philosophy of Science, General Metaphysical Problems and Volume 4 – The Lectures of Whitehead: Logic and The Function of Reason, especially focusing on the Quine materials for The Critical Edition of Whitehead: The Correspondence and Lecture Notes, Edinburgh University Press/Oxford University Press.
ONE-ACT PLAY
“My Chemical Imbalance” under pseudonym, Ernest Pith Garnell, ehealthforum.com/blogs/guest32619/my-chemical-imbalance-b26572.html
Leemon B. McHenry
October 6, 2016