Folia Philosophica 2027/1
Edited by: Lech Witkowski

In an era marked by ecological instability, technological acceleration, and cultural fragmentation, Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy offers a unique and urgently needed framework for rethinking education, cultural practice, and the social sciences. Whitehead’s insistence that “there is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations” invites us to reconsider the pedagogical imagination from the ground up—ecologically, relationally, and cosmologically. This issue of Folia Philosophica seeks contributions that explore how processual thinking can transform our understanding of learning, teaching, creativity, and cultural inquiry.

Whitehead’s philosophy of organism opens possibilities for reshaping educational environments, reimagining cultural participation, and developing forms of knowledge attuned to becoming rather than static order. We especially welcome papers inspired by recent scholarly work that “interweaves” Whitehead’s processual concepts into contemporary humanities and social sciences, renewing debates on how learning relates to creativity, perception, embodiment, experience, and the complex dynamics of growth. Contributors are invited to reflect on how process thought enables a metamorphosis of pedagogy at a moment in history when education is increasingly shaped by technological reductionism and systemic pressures detached from life itself.

Key topics include (but are not limited to):

• Educational theory through the lens of process philosophy
• Whitehead’s concepts of concrescence, creativity, feeling, and value in pedagogical contexts
• Process ontology and its implications for the humanities and social sciences
• The role of imagination, perception, and experience in learning
• Rethinking culture, knowledge, and human development within a cosmological framework
• Pedagogical environments as dynamic fields of becoming
• Ecology, relationality, and the reintegration of education with the natural world
• Critiques of mechanistic models of learning
• Processual approaches to literature, art, and cultural analysis
• Whitehead and interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary methodologies
• Comparative perspectives bridging Whitehead with other educational or philosophical traditions

Areas of Particular Interest

• Processual Pedagogy
• Philosophy of Organism
• Cosmological Approaches to Culture
• Creativity and Learning
• Ecological Humanities
• Aesthetics and Experience
• Embodiment and Perception
• Dynamic Epistemologies
• Posthumanism and Relational Ontology
• Education as Becoming

Submission Guidelines

Please submit manuscripts via the Folia Philosophica Online Journal System April 30, 2026.

IMPORTANT: Incomplete submissions will be automatically rejected.