BOWMAN LAFAYETTE CLARKE
1927- 1996
I. Education
Millsaps College 1945-1948 B.A., Philosophy
Emory University 1948-1952 B.D., M.A., Theology
University of Mississippi 1954-1957 M.A., Philosophy
Emory University 1957-1961 Ph.D., Philosophy
II. Professional Experience
Director, Wesley Foundation, G.S.C.W., 1953-1954
Director, Wesley Foundation, University of Mississippi, 1954-1957
Instructor; Philosophy, University of the South, 1959-1960
Associate Researcher, Emory University, 1960-1961
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Georgia, 1961-1965
Visiting Professor, Emory University, Summer 1964
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Georgia, 1965-1967
Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Philosophy, Univ. of Georgia, 1967-1970
Professor of Philosophy, UGA, 1970-1979
Professor and Head of the Dept. of Philosophy and Religion, UGA, 1972-1979
Professor of Philosophy, UGA, 1979-1990
Professor Emeritus, UGA 1990
III. Offices Held
Secretary-Treasurer, Georgia Philosophical Society, 1964-1965
President, Georgia Philosophic Society, 1968-1969
Board of Directors, Society for the Philosophy of Religion, 1970-1973
An Associate Editor, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1970-1974
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1975-1996
Vice-President, Society for the Philosophy of Religion, 1972-1973
President, Society for the Philosophy of Religion, 1973-1974
Member, Executive Council, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1978-1982
Member, Associates for Philosophy of Religion, 1973-1996
IV. Membership in Societies
American Philosophical Association
Metaphysical Society of America
Society for the Philosophy of Religion
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Georgia Philosophical Society
International Metaphysical Society
American Academy of Religion
V. Consultant (Referee, etc.)
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Process Studies
Southern Journal of Philosophy
University of Georgia Press
Environmental Ethics
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
South Illinois University Press
New York University Press
Academy Press
National Endowment for the Humanities
Abingdon Press
VI. Publications
A. Books:
Language and Natural Theology (The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1966).
God and Temporality (edited with Eugene T. Long) (New York: The Paragon Press, 1984).
B. Articles in Books:
"Language and Whitehead's Conception of Speculative Philosophy," Process and Divinity, eds., W. L. Reese and Eugene Freeman (LaSalle: Open Court, 1964).
"Linguistic Analysis and the Philosophy of Religion," Meanings and Existence: Introductory Readings in Philosophy, ed. W.T. Blackstone New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971).
"The Contribution of Logical Positivism," Meaning; and Existence: Introductory Readings in Philosophy, ed., W. T. Blackstone (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
"Reason and Revelation: A Linguistic Distinction," Religious Language and Knowledge, eds., Robert Ayers and W. T. Blackstone (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1972).
"God, Modality and Ontological Commitment," Ontological Commitment, eds., W. T. Blackstone and R. H. Severens (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1973).
"The Logical Roles of Proofs for the Existence of God," Reason, Experience and God, ed., Eugene T. Long (Washington: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1980).
"Introduction," God and Temporality New York: The Paragon Press, 1984).
"God as Process in Whitehead," God andTtemporality (New York: The Paragon Press, 1984).
"A Whiteheadian Theodicy," The Defense of God, eds., John Roth and Frederick Sontag (New York: The Paragon Press, 1985).
"Reflections on 'God', 'Being and Reference," Being: and Truth: Essays in Honor of John MacOuarrie, eds., Alistair Kee and Eugene Thomas Long (London: SCM Press LTD, 1986).
"Logic and History," At the Nexus of Philosophy and History, ed., Bernard P. Dauenhauer (Athens, Georgia, The University of Georgia Press, 1987.
"The Varieties of Religious Experience," "The Cost of Discipleship and Letters and Papers from Prison," Christian Spirituality, eds. Frank N. Magill and Ian P. McGreal (New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1988).
"René Descartes," "Charles Sanders Peirce," and Alfred North Whitehead," Great Thinkers of the Western World, ed. Ian P. McGreal (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 1992).
"In Defense of a Kind of natural Theology," Prospects for Natural Theology: Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy Volume 25, ed. Eugene Thomas Long (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1992).
"Logical Construction, Whitehead, and God," Logic. God and Metaphysics: Studies in Philosophy and Religion Volume 15, ed. James Franklin Harris (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992).
C. Articles in Journals
"Whitehead's Cosmology and the Christian Drama," Journal of Religion, XXXN (July 1959).
"God and the Symbolic in Tillich," Aneelican Theological Review, XLIII (July 1961).
"Linguistic Analysis and the Philosophy of Religion," The Monist, XLVIII (Spring 1963).
"God, Time and Human History," Angelican Theological Review, XLV (October 1963).
"Goodman on Quality Classes in the Aufbau," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, I (Fall 1963).
"The Assertive Character of Necessary Statements," Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Philosophy, Mexico City (1963).
"The Contributions of Logical Positivism," Methodos, XV (1963).
''Philosophical Arguments for God," Sophia, III (October 1964).
"The Language of Revealed Theology," The Journal of Bible and Religion, XXXVI (October 1964).
"Is There a God?--A Reply," Sophia, V (April 1966).
"How Do We Talk About God?", The Modern Schoolman, XLV (January 1968).
"Bonhoeffer's Question and the Future of Theology," The Personalist, (Winter 1969).
"Religion and the Human Situation," The Philosophy Forum, VIII (June 1970).
"Theology and Philosophy," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, XXXVIII (September 1970).
"Modal Disproofs and Proofs for God," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, IX (Summer 1971).
"The Argument from Design - A Piece of Abductive Reason," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, V (Summer 1974).
"The Modem Atheistic Tradition," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, V (Winter 1974).
"Peirce's Neglected Argument," Transactions of the Peirce Society, XIII (Fall 1977).
"R. M. Martin on the Whiteheadian God," The Southern Journal of Philosophy. XVI Ninter 1978)
"The Future of the Humanities," National Forum, LXIV (1979).
"The Argument from Design," Sophia, XVII (1979).
"The Untenability of Werth's Untenability Essay," Process Studies, IX (1979).
"The Argument from Design," American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, I (1980).
"Beard on the Conceivability of God's Non-existence," Southern Journal of Philosophy, XVIII(1980).
"God and Time in Whitehead," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, XLVIII(1980).
"A Calculus of Individuals based on 'Connection'," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, XXII(1981).
"Logic and Whitehead's Criteria for Speculative Philosophy," The Monist, LXV(1982).
"Natural Theology and Methodology," New Scholasticism, LXVII (1983).
"Process, Time and God," Process Studies, XIII(1984).
"Individuals and Points," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, XXVI (1985).
"Qualia, Extenson and Abstraction," The Monist, Vol. 69, No. 2 (1986).
"Hartshorne On God and Physical Prehension," Tulane Studies in Philosophy: Hartshorne's Neo-classical Theology, XXXIV (1986).
"Analogy and its Uses in Religious Life," Dialogue and Alliance, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1987-88).
"Identity and the Divinities," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 31, Nos. 2-3 (1992).
"Two Process Views of God," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 38, Nos. 1-3 (1995).
D. Journals Edited:
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. VI, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. VII, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1-4
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. TX, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. X, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. XIV, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. XV, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. XVI, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. XVII, Nos. 1-4
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. IX, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. XII, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. XIII, Nos. 1-4.
E. Others:
"Questions to Paul Tillich," Philosophical Interrogations, eds., Beatrice Rome and Sidney Rome New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963).
"Review of Charles Hartshorne's The Logic of Perfection," Emory University Quarterly, IX (Spring 1963).
"Review of M. J. Charlesworth's St Anslem's Proslogian," The Journal of Religion, XLCIII (April 1966).
"Review of Eugene Peter's The Creative Advance," The Journal of Religion, XLCII (October 1967).
"No, God Isn't Dead," The Georgia Impression, I (Fall 1966).
"Review of William L. Rowe's Religious Symbols and God: A Philosophical Study of Tillich's Theology," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, I (Winter 1970).
"Review of James Richmond's Theology and Metaphysics," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, XLIII (1975).
"Review of Richard Martin's Primordiality. Science and Value," Zvgon, XVIII (1983).
(Essay Review) "Robert Bnunbaugh's Whitehead. Process Philosophy, and Education," Journal of Research and Development in Education (Winter 1983).
"Review of' God: The Contemporary Discussion,' edited by Frederick Sontag and M. Darral Bryant," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, LI (December 1983).
"Review of Charles Hartshome's Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers," Journal of American Academy of Religion, LXX (1984).
"Review of Donald A. Crosby's Interogative Theories of Religion," Philosophia, Vol. 17, No. 2 (1987).
"Review of Ivor Leclerc's The Philosophy of Nature: Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy," Summary and Comments (1987).
1927- 1996
I. Education
Millsaps College 1945-1948 B.A., Philosophy
Emory University 1948-1952 B.D., M.A., Theology
University of Mississippi 1954-1957 M.A., Philosophy
Emory University 1957-1961 Ph.D., Philosophy
II. Professional Experience
Director, Wesley Foundation, G.S.C.W., 1953-1954
Director, Wesley Foundation, University of Mississippi, 1954-1957
Instructor; Philosophy, University of the South, 1959-1960
Associate Researcher, Emory University, 1960-1961
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Georgia, 1961-1965
Visiting Professor, Emory University, Summer 1964
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Georgia, 1965-1967
Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Philosophy, Univ. of Georgia, 1967-1970
Professor of Philosophy, UGA, 1970-1979
Professor and Head of the Dept. of Philosophy and Religion, UGA, 1972-1979
Professor of Philosophy, UGA, 1979-1990
Professor Emeritus, UGA 1990
III. Offices Held
Secretary-Treasurer, Georgia Philosophical Society, 1964-1965
President, Georgia Philosophic Society, 1968-1969
Board of Directors, Society for the Philosophy of Religion, 1970-1973
An Associate Editor, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1970-1974
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1975-1996
Vice-President, Society for the Philosophy of Religion, 1972-1973
President, Society for the Philosophy of Religion, 1973-1974
Member, Executive Council, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1978-1982
Member, Associates for Philosophy of Religion, 1973-1996
IV. Membership in Societies
American Philosophical Association
Metaphysical Society of America
Society for the Philosophy of Religion
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Georgia Philosophical Society
International Metaphysical Society
American Academy of Religion
V. Consultant (Referee, etc.)
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Process Studies
Southern Journal of Philosophy
University of Georgia Press
Environmental Ethics
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
South Illinois University Press
New York University Press
Academy Press
National Endowment for the Humanities
Abingdon Press
VI. Publications
A. Books:
Language and Natural Theology (The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1966).
God and Temporality (edited with Eugene T. Long) (New York: The Paragon Press, 1984).
B. Articles in Books:
"Language and Whitehead's Conception of Speculative Philosophy," Process and Divinity, eds., W. L. Reese and Eugene Freeman (LaSalle: Open Court, 1964).
"Linguistic Analysis and the Philosophy of Religion," Meanings and Existence: Introductory Readings in Philosophy, ed. W.T. Blackstone New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971).
"The Contribution of Logical Positivism," Meaning; and Existence: Introductory Readings in Philosophy, ed., W. T. Blackstone (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
"Reason and Revelation: A Linguistic Distinction," Religious Language and Knowledge, eds., Robert Ayers and W. T. Blackstone (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1972).
"God, Modality and Ontological Commitment," Ontological Commitment, eds., W. T. Blackstone and R. H. Severens (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1973).
"The Logical Roles of Proofs for the Existence of God," Reason, Experience and God, ed., Eugene T. Long (Washington: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1980).
"Introduction," God and Temporality New York: The Paragon Press, 1984).
"God as Process in Whitehead," God andTtemporality (New York: The Paragon Press, 1984).
"A Whiteheadian Theodicy," The Defense of God, eds., John Roth and Frederick Sontag (New York: The Paragon Press, 1985).
"Reflections on 'God', 'Being and Reference," Being: and Truth: Essays in Honor of John MacOuarrie, eds., Alistair Kee and Eugene Thomas Long (London: SCM Press LTD, 1986).
"Logic and History," At the Nexus of Philosophy and History, ed., Bernard P. Dauenhauer (Athens, Georgia, The University of Georgia Press, 1987.
"The Varieties of Religious Experience," "The Cost of Discipleship and Letters and Papers from Prison," Christian Spirituality, eds. Frank N. Magill and Ian P. McGreal (New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1988).
"René Descartes," "Charles Sanders Peirce," and Alfred North Whitehead," Great Thinkers of the Western World, ed. Ian P. McGreal (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 1992).
"In Defense of a Kind of natural Theology," Prospects for Natural Theology: Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy Volume 25, ed. Eugene Thomas Long (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1992).
"Logical Construction, Whitehead, and God," Logic. God and Metaphysics: Studies in Philosophy and Religion Volume 15, ed. James Franklin Harris (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992).
C. Articles in Journals
"Whitehead's Cosmology and the Christian Drama," Journal of Religion, XXXN (July 1959).
"God and the Symbolic in Tillich," Aneelican Theological Review, XLIII (July 1961).
"Linguistic Analysis and the Philosophy of Religion," The Monist, XLVIII (Spring 1963).
"God, Time and Human History," Angelican Theological Review, XLV (October 1963).
"Goodman on Quality Classes in the Aufbau," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, I (Fall 1963).
"The Assertive Character of Necessary Statements," Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Philosophy, Mexico City (1963).
"The Contributions of Logical Positivism," Methodos, XV (1963).
''Philosophical Arguments for God," Sophia, III (October 1964).
"The Language of Revealed Theology," The Journal of Bible and Religion, XXXVI (October 1964).
"Is There a God?--A Reply," Sophia, V (April 1966).
"How Do We Talk About God?", The Modern Schoolman, XLV (January 1968).
"Bonhoeffer's Question and the Future of Theology," The Personalist, (Winter 1969).
"Religion and the Human Situation," The Philosophy Forum, VIII (June 1970).
"Theology and Philosophy," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, XXXVIII (September 1970).
"Modal Disproofs and Proofs for God," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, IX (Summer 1971).
"The Argument from Design - A Piece of Abductive Reason," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, V (Summer 1974).
"The Modem Atheistic Tradition," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, V (Winter 1974).
"Peirce's Neglected Argument," Transactions of the Peirce Society, XIII (Fall 1977).
"R. M. Martin on the Whiteheadian God," The Southern Journal of Philosophy. XVI Ninter 1978)
"The Future of the Humanities," National Forum, LXIV (1979).
"The Argument from Design," Sophia, XVII (1979).
"The Untenability of Werth's Untenability Essay," Process Studies, IX (1979).
"The Argument from Design," American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, I (1980).
"Beard on the Conceivability of God's Non-existence," Southern Journal of Philosophy, XVIII(1980).
"God and Time in Whitehead," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, XLVIII(1980).
"A Calculus of Individuals based on 'Connection'," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, XXII(1981).
"Logic and Whitehead's Criteria for Speculative Philosophy," The Monist, LXV(1982).
"Natural Theology and Methodology," New Scholasticism, LXVII (1983).
"Process, Time and God," Process Studies, XIII(1984).
"Individuals and Points," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, XXVI (1985).
"Qualia, Extenson and Abstraction," The Monist, Vol. 69, No. 2 (1986).
"Hartshorne On God and Physical Prehension," Tulane Studies in Philosophy: Hartshorne's Neo-classical Theology, XXXIV (1986).
"Analogy and its Uses in Religious Life," Dialogue and Alliance, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1987-88).
"Identity and the Divinities," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 31, Nos. 2-3 (1992).
"Two Process Views of God," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 38, Nos. 1-3 (1995).
D. Journals Edited:
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. VI, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. VII, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1-4
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. TX, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. X, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. XIV, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. XV, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. XVI, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. XVII, Nos. 1-4
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. IX, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. XII, Nos. 1-4.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. XIII, Nos. 1-4.
E. Others:
"Questions to Paul Tillich," Philosophical Interrogations, eds., Beatrice Rome and Sidney Rome New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963).
"Review of Charles Hartshorne's The Logic of Perfection," Emory University Quarterly, IX (Spring 1963).
"Review of M. J. Charlesworth's St Anslem's Proslogian," The Journal of Religion, XLCIII (April 1966).
"Review of Eugene Peter's The Creative Advance," The Journal of Religion, XLCII (October 1967).
"No, God Isn't Dead," The Georgia Impression, I (Fall 1966).
"Review of William L. Rowe's Religious Symbols and God: A Philosophical Study of Tillich's Theology," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, I (Winter 1970).
"Review of James Richmond's Theology and Metaphysics," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, XLIII (1975).
"Review of Richard Martin's Primordiality. Science and Value," Zvgon, XVIII (1983).
(Essay Review) "Robert Bnunbaugh's Whitehead. Process Philosophy, and Education," Journal of Research and Development in Education (Winter 1983).
"Review of' God: The Contemporary Discussion,' edited by Frederick Sontag and M. Darral Bryant," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, LI (December 1983).
"Review of Charles Hartshome's Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers," Journal of American Academy of Religion, LXX (1984).
"Review of Donald A. Crosby's Interogative Theories of Religion," Philosophia, Vol. 17, No. 2 (1987).
"Review of Ivor Leclerc's The Philosophy of Nature: Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy," Summary and Comments (1987).