Folia Philosophica, 2027/2
Guest Editor: Bogdan Ogrodnik

At a time when education faces mounting cultural, ecological, and epistemic pressures, Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy offers an opportunity to rethink its very foundations. Rather than proposing a ready-made reform, it invites a different mode of thought: one that understands learning as a rhythm of events, knowledge as a form of becoming, and pedagogy as a practice of attentiveness to life. The editors of this issue of Folia Philosophica invite contributions that explore how Whitehead’s categories may transform contemporary pedagogical reflection—opening it toward experience, value, relationality, and the interconnectedness of the human and the more-than-human world, especially in light of the outstanding work of the Polish humanist Lech Witkowski.

The point of departure for this volume is Professor Witkowski’s most recent and impressive book, Whitehead. Superjects and Concrescences for the Humanities and Education, which demonstrates to what profound extent the philosophy of organism can reinvigorate current debates in education, culture, and the humanities. Witkowski shows that Whitehead’s œuvre—often cited but rarely read in its full complexity—has the potential to reshape both theoretical frameworks and the very ethics of pedagogical thinking. Under the guest editorship of Bogdan Ogrodnik, this issue encourages contributors to deepen this conversation: to engage creatively or critically in a renewed “working through” of Whitehead in the context of the challenges faced by contemporary education.

Possible areas of contribution include:

• Whiteheadian perspectives on teaching, learning, and educational renewal
• Concrescence, feeling, and value as tools for pedagogical analysis
• Process ontology and its relevance for contemporary humanities research
• Perception, imagination, and embodiment in developmental processes
• Culture and knowledge seen through cosmological, relational, or ecological lenses
• Pedagogical environments as evolving, event-structured fields
• Ecological and relational critiques of technocratic education
• Process approaches to literature, art, and cultural practices
• Whitehead in dialogue with hermeneutic, phenomenological, pragmatist, or critical pedagogies
• Comparative engagements between Whitehead and other philosophical traditions

Areas of Particular Interest

• Process Pedagogy
• Philosophy of Organism
• Creative and Relational Approaches to Learning
• Ecological and Cosmological Humanities
• Aesthetics, Experience, and Attention
• Embodiment and Situated Perception
• Event-Based Epistemologies
• Posthumanism and Relational Ontologies
• Education as an Ongoing Becoming

Submission Guidelines

Articles should be 4,000–6,000 words.
Please submit manuscripts via the Folia Philosophica Online Journal System April 30, 2026.

Each submission must include:

1. Author’s First and Family Name
2. Institutional Affiliation
3. ORCID Number
4. Website Address (if applicable)
5. Email Address
6. Mailing Address (optional, for complimentary print copy)
7. Article Title
8. Abstract (250–350 words)
9. Biographical Note (250–350 words)
10. Keywords
11. Academic Disciplines Represented (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_academic_disciplines)
12. Full Article, 4,000–6,000 words, formatted according to the MLA Handbook, 9th ed.
13. MLA 9 Works Cited
14. Print-quality images (min. 300 dpi), if applicable
15. Permissions for copyrighted visual materials

IMPORTANT: Incomplete submissions will be automatically rejected.