Process Philosophy and Exceptional Experience: Whitehead and the Wild(er)ness of Non-Sensory Perception
Zygon® February 27, 2026 Andrew M. Davis
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate and elucidate the fruitfulness of Alfred North Whitehead’s doctrine of non-sensory perception for exceptional forms of experience. I begin by introducing Whitehead’s work, influence, and some of the characteristic ideological transitions associated with his thought. I then draw attention to his methodology as a form of radical empiricism beyond that...