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Australasian Association for Process Thought 

The Australasian Association for Process Thought is still in its developmental stages. They envision holding professional conferences and perhaps publishing their proceedings. See below for their new address and website. One of the aims of the association is to create a network of people working in the area of process thought. For more information, contact:  

Australasian Association for Process Thought 
Box 23 
Wentworth Building 
University of Sydney 
N.S.W. 2006 
AUSTRALIA 

website: processthought.org/

e-mail: p.farleigh@ieee.org or gjmoses@mpx.com.au
 

Association of Process Psychology 

APP is part of the Interdisciplinary Psychotherapy Institute and a publication concerned with both the soul in psychotherapy and the soul of psychotherapy. IPI suggests that these various disciplines need to work together more closely in order to achieve their stated goals. This does not mean they should or would lose their individual uniqueness. IPI believes that this synergistic process can be accomplished by grounding the disciplines in a common theoretical framework. It proposes Alfred North Whitehead's Process Philosophy as that common ground. For more information , write to: 

Dr. David E. Roy, Ph.D.  
Interdisciplinary Psychotherapy Institute 
5475 N. Fresno St., Ste. 109 
Fresno, CA 93710

Phone: (209) 435-7835

FAX:  (209) 435-1210

Website: www.processpsychology.org

e-mail: admin@cctnet.com
 

Association for Process Philosophy of Education 

The Association for Process Philosophy of Education, or APPE, is a membership organization that focuses on the contributions of process philosophy to education theory. APPE holds meetings/conferences, publishes a newsletter and maintains a library of video tapes, seminar papers and other resources. For more information, contact:  

APPE Secretary-Treasurer 
John Sweeney
PO Box 244 
Angelus Oaks, CA 92305-0244 

website: www.apped.org

e-mail:: domehome8@juno.com
 

Association pour le Dveloppement de la Philosophie du Procs 

Nous avons, pour ce faire, besoin de votre aide, sous l'une et/ou l'autre de formes suivantes: 

  • Participation au groupe de fondation de l'association 
  • Une fois l'association cre, participation sa subsistance, soit au titre de membre bienfaiteur (personne physique ou morale), soit celui de membre actif 
  • Communication de tous documents ou informations susceptibles d'intresser une telle association (notamment articles, livres voquant en franais la Philosophie du Procs 
  • Participation la prparation de colloques sur l'un ou l'autre aspect de la pense de WHITEHEAD, de celle d'HARTSHORNE, ou plus gnralement de la Philosophie du Procs 

Pouvez-vous, en tous cas, vous manifester l'une des deux adresses qui figurent en bas de cette page, pour nous dire ce ce que vous pensez de ce projet. 

For more information, contact:  

H. Vaillant 
La Gelaye 
Seyssuel 
38200 Vienne 
FRANCE

 --or-- 

J.M. Breuvart 
10, rue A. Dumas 
59790 Ronchin 
FRANCE
 

Caribbean Integral Institute for Sustainable development of Human Experience  

The Caribbean Integral Institute is registered with the Chamber of Commerce on Curacao, Netherlands Antilles as a Foundation under registry S-6607. It is involved in higher education as a study and research center.

The Caribbean Integral Institute is an NGO institute that presents “Education for Sustainable Development of Human Experience” as a basis for the study, research and development in regard to sustainable development of different areas like Education, Healthcare, Ecology, Economy, Justice, Technology and more.

Globally educators have started to reorder traditional educational theories and practices to integrate Systems Thinking, Process philosophy and holism to cater to the needs of the individual learner. In our programme "Education for Sustainable Development of Human Experience" we go beyond theoretical frameworks to study how through Diagnostic Integrative Observation (DIO) inner developmental processes can be made visible to human perception. Diagnostic Integrative Observation relies on Process thought and Living Systems philosophy for its interpretation and on Indian Systems of Medicine with emphasis on Ayurvedic Science for its application of diagnostic principles. Through its application learners can be assisted in understanding, from an integrated multi-intelligences (Gardner 1983) perspective, the deeper meaning of (sub)conscious physic-psycho-emotional responses while open to the possibilities that the universe reaches out to offer him/her.

Training: Beatrixlaan t/o 8, Emmastad
Administration: Didoweg 8, Santa Rosa
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles
Phone: +5999 6701118 / +1 305 5177018
E-Mail: info@ciiedu.org

Web: www.ciiedu.org

 
 

Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences

The Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences at California State University Sacramento engages in research and scholarship that explores the philosophical implications underlying recent innovations in contemporary science, including those occurring in the areas of quantum physics, cosmology, and the study of complex adaptive systems. This exploration is, in part, a speculative philosophical enterprise intended to contribute to the framework of a suitable bridge by which scientific and philosophical concepts might not only be cross-joined, but mutually supported.

Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences
California State University
6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6033

Tel: 916-278-4535 ext. 2  

E-mail: cpns@csus.edu
Website: www.csus.edu/cpns
 

Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences

The mission of CTNS is to promote the creative mutual interaction between theology and the natural sciences.

CTNS is an international non-profit membership organization dedicated to research, teaching and public service. It focuses on the relation between the natural sciences including physics, cosmology, evolutionary and molecular biology, as well as technology and the environment, and Christian theology and ethics.

As an Affiliate of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California, CTNS offers courses at the doctoral and seminary levels in order to bring future clergy and faculty to a greater awareness of this important interdisciplinary work.

Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
2400 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA 94709-1212

Tel: 510-848-8152 
Fax: 510-848-2535

E-mail: ctnsinfo@ctns.org
Website: www.ctns.org
 

Chapter for Applied Process Thought 

The primary objective of CAPT is seen to comprise the provision of a formal research node of the International Process Network in United Kingdom to which researchers in process studies may wish to be connected. Located at the the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. 

Contact Dr. Thomas Kelly: philsec@nuim.ie

 
 

Chromatiques Whiteheadiennes

The "Chromatiques whiteheadiennes" scholarly society was created in January 2001 by Michel Weber. It intends to bring together research on the different aspects, nuances and implications of Whitehead's thought. Since 2002, the network has fostered in Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne research seminars on Whitehead's organic philosophy. The Chromatikon Yearbook publishes the main results of this work and also offers critical studies and reviews in Whiteheadian and related fields. It complements the monographs and proceedings published in Ontos' "Chromatiques whiteheadiennes" and "Process Thought" series.

Website: www.chromatika.org

 
 

Cosmos and History

Cosmos and History is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal of natural and social philosophy. It serves those who see philosophys vocation in questioning and challenging prevailing assumptions about ourselves and our place in the world, developing new ways of thinking about physical existence, life, humanity and society, so helping to create the future insofar as thought affects the issue. Philosophy so conceived is not identified with the work of professional philosophers, and the journal welcomes contributions from philosophically oriented thinkers from all disciplines.

Website: www.cosmosandhistory.org
 

East-West Process Studies Project 

The primary focus of the East-West Process Studies Project is Buddhist-Christian dialogue and dialogue between the Kyoto School of Zen Buddhism and Process Philosophy. For more information, contact: 

Professor Tokiyuki Nobuhara 
Keiwa College, Jinshinkan, Rm 113I 
Shibata, Niigata 957 
JAPAN 

Phone: (0254) 26-3636 
FAX: (0254) 36-3646
 

European Process Network

The European Process Network is a conglomeration of three Whitehead Associations: the Bulgarian Center for Process Studies, (President: Vesselin Petrov), the Whitehead Metaphysical Society from Poland (President. Bogdan Ogrodnik), and the Hungarian and Central European Whitehead Association (President: Attila Simonfi).

Website:  www.processnetwork.eu

 

European Society for Process Thought

The European Society for Process Thought, directed by Jan Van der Veken, is a network of scholars affiliated with the Process Documentation Center, a subsection of the Center for Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology at the Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University, Leuven.

For more information, contact: 

European Society for Process Thought
Jan Van der Veken, director
Institute of Philosophy,
Kardinaal Mercierplein 2
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium

Website:  www.espt.de

 
 

Foundation for Philosophy of Creativity

Incorporated in 1957, the Foundation for Philosophy of Creativity is an umbrella organization that cosponsors international conferences and participates in the World Congress of Philosophy meetings.  The Foundation and its related Societies are involved in many activities such as award presentations, international research, compilation of bibliographic materials, and sponsoring symposia on the concept of creativity.

For more information, please contact: 

Dr. Larry Cobb 
250 Slippery Rock Road
Slippery Rock, PA 16057

PHONE:  (724) 794-2938
FAX: (724) 794-1369

E-mail: ethicsworks@aol.com
 

Highlands Institute for American Philosophical and Religious Thought

The Highlands Institute for American Philosophical and Religious Thought contributes to the academic study of religion and philosophy through interpretive, critical, and constructive reflections whose principal focus is on distinctively American religious and philosophical thought.  For more information, please contact: 

The Highlands Institute 
Box 2009
Highlands, NC 23741                                  

Phone:  (828) 526-4038

Website:  www.hiarpt.org 

e-mail:  hiarpt@gte.net 
 


Hungarian and Central European Whitehead Association

In February 2003, the Hungarian and Central European Whitehead Association was formed by 20 intellectuals, enrolled by the court, and began its work. This group's activities include translating Whitehead's texts, compiling books, research, conferences, discussion groups and even a Whitehead Camp!

Web site: www.whitehead.hu

e-mail: Arik Zsofia

 
 

International Institute for Field Being 

For more information, contact: 

Dr. Lik Kuen Tong 
Phil 200190 
North Benson Road 
Fairfield, CT 06430-5195 
 
PHONE: (203) 254-4000, ext. 2857 
FAX: (203) 254-4105

Web site:  www.iifb.org

e-mail:  lktong@iifb.org
 

International Process Network 

The International Process Network (IPN) is a global network, a federation of fifteen organizations around the world, who are interested in process-relational philosophies.

Process-relational philosophies (or “process”), in general, have creativity, organic change over time, interiority and interdependence as fundamental aspects of their understandings. Process is part of an ancient tradition dating in the West at least from Heraclites, in Asia from early Hindu and Chinese writings, and around the world from many indigenous traditions. In more recent times, it has been expressed in the thought of such philosophers as Sri Aurobindo, Nishida Kitarô, Henri Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, and Alfred North Whitehead.

IPN came into being in 2001 at the International Whitehead Summit held in Claremont, California. Its purpose, as stated in its bylaws, is “to support, generate and disseminate an international discourse on the meaning and implications of process thought across academic disciplines and conflicting truth-claims, and in relation to the entire community of life and the cosmos.”

Membership in IPN is available to individuals and organizations who are interested in understanding, teaching, developing, applying, promoting or supporting process. Information about the network is available on the IPN website...

Website: www.processnetwork.org

 

Japan Society for Whitehead-Process Studies 

The proceedings of the Japan Society for Whitehead-Process Studies appear in the biennial journal Process Thought. For more information, contact: 

Professor Sueo Oshima's Office (Bldg B, Rm 405) 
Reitaku University 
2-1-1 Hikarigaoka 
Kashiwa-shi, Chiba-ken 277 
JAPAN 

PHONE: (0471) 73-3455 
FAX: (0471) 73-1100/73-3403 
 

Japan Internet Center for Process Studies (JICPS)

The Japan Internet Center for Process Studies (JICPS) WWW site is maintained by Yutaka Tanaka. The site is composed in both English and Japanese. For the English readers, the contextual index (i.e. electronic concordance) of "Process and Reality"(still in the making) is available in the 'Whitehead Data-Base'. You can browse typical Whiteheadian terms such as actual entity , eternal object, the primordial nature of God, etc., in the context of "Process and Reality." For Japanese readers, you can also read the introduction of Process Philosophy as the philosophy of information organism and its significance for the post-industrial and information-revolution age. 

For more information, contact: 

Yutaka Tanaka  
Department of Philosophy, Sophia University
7-1 Kioi-cho
Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102-8554
JAPAN

Phone:  81-3-3238-3836
FAX:  81-3-3238-3085

Website:  pweb.cc.sophia.ac.jp/~yutaka-t/process/

e-mail:  yutaka-t@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp
 

Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science

The Metanexus Institute advances research, education and outreach on the constructive engagement of science and religion. We seek to create an enduring intellectual and social movement by collaborating with persons and communities from diverse religious traditions and scientific disciplines.

In a spirit of humility and with a deep concern for intellectual rigor, the Metanexus Institute promotes a balanced and exploratory dialogue between science and religion. While mindful of the complexities of this endeavor, we work to develop integrative approaches that enrich the domains of both science and religion.

Web site: www.metanexus.net/

Metanexus Local Societies Initiative: www.metanexus.net/local_societies/default.html

 

Open and Relational Theologies Unit

In November of 2003, at the annual American Academy of Religion meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, a group of diverse scholars came together to form the Open and Relational Theologies Unit of the AAR. The Center for Process Studies is a proud participant in this endeavor. The ORT unit is a diverse group, made up theologians from a wide array of backgrounds and affiliations, evangelical and liberal, including both openness and process theologies. Despite the diversity of origin, these scholars are united in their conviction that God is personal, loving, and relational, creatures are free, and the future is undetermined. If you would like more information about the goings-on of the ORT group, please contact Thomas Oord.

Website: www.ctr4process.org/affiliations/ort/

 

Process Documentation Center 

The Process Documentation Center, directed by Andre Cloots, is a subsection of the Center for Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology at the Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University, Leuven.  It provides documentation for PhD dissertations.

For more information, contact:

Process Documentation Center
Institute of Philosophy K.U. Leuven
Kardinaal Mercierplein 2
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium
e-mail: Andre.Cloots@hiw.kuleuven.ac.be
Telephone: +32 16 32 63 51
website: www.espt.de
 

Process-Philosophy Listserv 

An internet discussion list entitled Process Philosophy is up and very active. The list is FREE and open to the discussion of all topics pertaining to the study of Process Philosophies. A certain focus inevitably falls on Whitehead and Hartshorne, but the possible topics are as inclusive as the interests of these two thinkers. Visit them on the web at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PROCESS-PHILOSOPHY.html

The mailbase is an automatic list service software program. It will note your electronic address and return to you a welcoming message and a list of commands with which to control your relations with the list.

Religion Online

Religion Online offers free electronic versions of over 4,700 full texts, articles, and chapters from noted theologians and scholars. They have also made all Process Studies feature articles before issue 16:1 avaialable.

Religion Online: www.religion-online.org

Process Studies Articles @ Religion Online

 

 

Society for the Study of Process Philosophies

The Society is a group of scholars in philosophy and related fields with a specialty or interest in process thought. Founded in 1966, SSPP was one of the first satellite organizations of the American Philosophical Association. The Society holds periodic meetings in conjunction with each of the divisional meetings of the American Philosophical Association, as well as at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.

For more information, contact: 

Dr. Jude Jones, Coordinator 
Society for the Study of Process Philosophies 
Department of Philosophy 
Fordham University
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx, NY  10458
e-mail:  jude.jones@comcast.net or jujones@fordham.edu

Dr. Brian G. Henning, Associate Director
Society for the Study of Process Philosophies
Philosophy Department
502 E. Boone Ave, Spokane, WA 99258
509.313.5885
email: henning@gonzaga.edu

Web page: www.processphilosophies.org
 

Unitarian Universalist Process Theology Network 

an affiliation of the UUA  

The UU Process Theology Network publishes a newsletter entitled Process Theology Network Newsletter. 

For more information, contact:  

UU Process Theology Network 
3725 Talbot St Ste D 
San Diego, CA 92106 

e-mail:  BBKeiller@aol.com
 

     University of Saskatchewan Process Philosophy Research Unit  

The USPPRU comprises a group of interdisciplinary researchers, who have been actively engaged in investigating process philosophy and its relationship to education, ecology, culture, science and society since 1992.

For more information , contact: 

Mark Flynn, Dept. of Educational Psychology 
University of Saskatchewan  
28 Campus Drive 
Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X1 CANADA

FAX:  (306) 966-7020

e-mail: mpflynn@shaw.ca
Website: www.usask.ca/usppru/
 

Whitehead Film Festival 

The Whitehead International Film Festival is sponsored by the International Process Network, a world-wide coalition of organizations interested in developing and making known the relational philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Local participants in the International Process Network are the Center for Process Studies and its related program, Process & Faith, both of which are located on the campus of Claremont School of Theology.  Claremont School of Theology Arts Council, Video Paradiso and the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University are co-sponsors of the event.

See: whiteheadfilmfestival.org
 

The Whitehead Metaphysical Society

The Whitehead Metaphysical Society was registered on October 4, 2005. It was founded in 2003 by the group of 20 Polish philosophers interested in process philosophy. The Society has its seat at Franciscan Seminary in Katowice. The Seminary is situated in the neo-gothic cathedral-monastery complex. The board consists of the following members: 

  • President - Dr. Bogdan Ogrodnik (Silesian University) 

  • Secretary - Dr. Marek Rosiak (Lodz University) 

  • Treasurers - Fr. Dr. Kleofas W. Grodek, OFM (board member); Dr. Janusz Mączka, SDB (Papal Academy in Krakow).

The Society is a publisher of Studia Whiteheadiana (nr. 1 2003, nr. 2 in press), organizes annual conferences in May, and has begun to build a process library. Dr. Ogrodnik and Dr. Grodek have been presiding over the seminar God and Nature in aProcess Perspective since 2003. 

Contact: Dr. Bogdan Ogrodnik 

E-mail address: bogrod@interia.pl, bogrod@saba.wns.us.edu.pl 

Mail address: University of Silesia, Institute of Philosophy, ul. Bankowa 11, 40-007 Katowice, Poland.
 

Whitehead Psychology Nexus

The Whitehead Psychology Nexus is an international open forum dedicated to the cross-examination of Alfred North Whitehead's organic or process philosophy and the various facets of the contemporary psychological field. It seeks to encourage psychology in a Whiteheadian atmosphere and Whiteheadian scholarship informed by psychology. Bold speculations balanced by complete humility before logic, and before fact are especially valued. It is a disease of philosophy --stresses Whitehead-- when it is neither bold nor humble, but merely a reflection of the temperamental presuppositions of exceptional personalities. (ANW, Process and Reality, p. 17) Openness means here --at the very least-- two things. With regard to the focus of the evoked cross-elucidation: no philosophical or psychological system of thought is a priori excluded, provided that they allow discussion in a Whiteheadian spirit.

Website: www.chromatika.org/wpnexus.html
 

Whitehead Society of Korea 

Dr. Wang Shik Jang of Methodist Theological Seminary in Seoul, Korea visited the Center for Process Studies on 8/19/97 to give us a report on the Whitehead Society of Korea.  The WSK held its first conference at Yonsei University in Seoul on March 29, 1997. The mission of the WSK is to retool Whiteheadian thought in a Korean way.  The group meets annually and publishes an annual journal. 

Among the sixty persons who attended the inaugural conference, many were philosophers, lawyers, physicians, physicists, psychologists, Buddhist scholars, and Christian theologians.  One subgroup has developed to focus on issues in the Buddhist-Christian Dialogue.  It had its first meeting on May 17, 1997. 

For further information, contact:

Dr. Chang-Ok Mun  
805-505 Than Hyun Mauel
Than Hyun Dong
Ko Yang City, Kyung-Ki Do
KOREA 411-320

Website: whitehead.or.kr/