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Michel Weber, born in 1963, is a Belgian philosopher best known as an interpreter and advocate of the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. He has built an international network of scholarly societies and publication projects devoted to Whitehead and the global relevance of process philosophy.
Process philosophy applies evolutionary thinking to psychology, epistemology, cosmology, metaphysics, and theology. Its principal founders include Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), C. S. Peirce (1839-1914), Henri Bergson (1859-1941), and William James (1842-1910).
The Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought is a two-volume reference work co-edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. It gathers 115 entries written by 101 internationally recognized experts, aiming to interpret Whitehead's philosophy on its own terms and survey directions for future Whiteheadian scholarship.
Weber founded three international scholarly societies: the Chromatiques whiteheadiennes, the Whitehead Psychology Nexus (both created in 2000), and the European William James Project (created in 2001). All three are now federated under his non-profit Chromatiques whiteheadiennes Centre for Philosophical Practice in Brussels.
Weber's monograph on intuition in the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead won the Prix du Concours annuel 2000 awarded by the Classe des Lettres de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.
Weber studied applied economics at Saint-Louis University in Brussels and philosophy at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve, where he earned his doctorate in 1997. His doctoral thesis on Whitehead was written under the supervision of Marcel Crabbé.