Dr. Adam Scarfe

Title: Associate Professor and Chair
Phone: 204-786-9369
Office: 4G11
Building: Graham Hall
Email: a.scarfe@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Born in Winnipeg and having grown up in Edmonton, Dr. Scarfe has degrees from the University of Alberta (1996), Brock University (1997), University of Ottawa (2001), and the University of Saskatchewan (2005). After completing his doctorate at the University of Ottawa, Canada, on Hegel and Whitehead on the topic of skepticism in 2001, from 2002-2005, he studied with the University of Saskatchewan Process Philosophy Unit (USPPRU), and remains affiliated with it as a Research Associate. His current areas of research are: Biophilosophy (at the intersection of Philosophy of Biology, Bioethics, and Philosophy of Technology), Continental Philosophy, Process-Relational Philosophy, and Philosophy of Education.

Dr. Scarfe has served on the Executive Board of the International Process Network (IPN), as Secretary, Executive Director—Elect, and Executive Director, respectively. He has published over twenty-five articles and book chapters, and has edited and co-authored five volumes: The Adventure of Education: Process Philosophers on Learning, Teaching, and Research (Rodopi Press, 2009); Beyond Mechanism: Putting Life Back Into Biology (Lexington Books / Rowman and Littlefield, 2013), co-edited with Brian Henning (Gonzaga University); Dynamic Being: Essays in Process-Relational Ontology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), co-edited with Vesselin Petrov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences); Nature Alive: Essays on the Emergence and Evolution of Living Agents (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018); and Process, Rhythm, and Poiesis: Education From a Whiteheadian Point of View (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019), also co-edited with Vesselin Petrov.

However, his latest book is: Humanity's Rise to Superdominance, the Global Ecological Crisis, and the Way Forward for Education (2023, Cambridge Scholars Publishing).