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Friday, September 27, 2024 | Emerson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Background: Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He inspired the philosophical school known as process philosophy during his tenure at the Harvard University (1924 – 1937), which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.
Whitehead arrived in America on August 27, 1924, and delivered his first lecture in Harvard’s Emerson Hall about a month later, on September 25, at noon. This marks the starting point of the most important period of the development of Whitehead’s thought, the Harvard Period.
Organizing a conference to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Alfred North Whitehead’s arrival at Harvard University serves as a profound tribute to his legacy, highlighting his interdisciplinary and global impact, particularly in relation to his influence on Chinese scholars. It offers a unique opportunity for scholarly exchange, fostering international collaboration, and revitalizing interest in process philosophy. This event not only celebrates Whitehead’s historical contributions but also promotes the relevance of his ideas in addressing contemporary issues, thereby inspiring a new generation of thinkers.
Objective: This conference aims to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Alfred North Whitehead’s appointment at Harvard University, exploring the profound impact of his philosophical ideas on various disciplines and his influence on Chinese scholars and thought. Through scholarly presentations and discussions, the event will delve into the development of Whitehead’s thought during his tenure at Harvard, his Chinese disciples at Harvard and their contributions, and the broader interaction between Whitehead’s philosophy and Chinese intellectual traditions.
Co-organized by the Harvard Chinese Students and Scholars Association (Harvard CSSA), the Center for Process Studies, the Center for Whitehead Studies at UIC Institute of Advanced Study, the Whitehead Research Project, and the Boston School of Modern Languages.
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Conference Speakers
Opening Ceremony
Wm. Andrew Schwartz
Dr. Wm. Andrew Schwartz is Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies and Associate Professor of Process Studies & Comparative Theology at Claremont School of Theology, as well as Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of the Institute for Ecological Civilization. Dr. Schwartz earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University. His academic interests are broad, and include Comparative Religious Philosophies, Process Thought, Ecology, Education, and more. His recent work has been focused on high-impact philosophy and the role of big ideas in the transition toward ecological civilization. As Executive Director, Andrew has overall strategic and operational responsibility for CPS, including development and implementation of the CPS mission, programs, and strategic vision.
Peter K. Bol
Dr. Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His research is centered on the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7th to the 17th century. He is the author of “This Culture of Ours”: Intellectual Transitions in T’ang and Sung China, Neo-Confucianism in History, coauthor of Sung Dynasty Uses of the I-ching, co-editor of Ways with Words, and various journal articles in Chinese, Japanese, and English. He led Harvard’s university-wide effort to establish support for geospatial analysis in teaching and research; in 2005 he was named the first director of the Center for Geographic Analysis. As Vice Provost (2013/09-2018/10) he was responsible for HarvardX, the Harvard Initiative in Learning and Teaching, and research that connects online and residential learning.He also directs the China Historical Geographic Information Systems project, a collaboration between Harvard and Fudan University in Shanghai to create a GIS for 2000 years of Chinese history. In a collaboration between Harvard, Academia Sinica, and Peking University he directs the China Biographical Database project, an online relational database currently of 420,000 historical figures that is being expanded to include all biographical data in China’s historical record over the last 2000 years. Together with William Kirby he teaches ChinaX (SW12x) course, one of the HarvardX courses.
John B. Cobb, Jr.
Dr. John B. Cobb, Jr. is an American theologian, philosopher, and environmentalist. Described by historian Gary Dorrien as one of the two most important North American theologians of the twentieth century, Cobb is the preeminent scholar in the field of process philosophy and process theology, and the author of more than fifty books. In 2014, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Cobb is a founding co-director of the Center for Process Studies and Professor Emeritus of Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University.
Jay McDaniel
Dr. Jay McDaniel is professor emeritus of Religious Studies at Hendrix College in Arkansas, and founder of the website Open Horizons, which focuses on exploring a process outlook on life and way of living in the world. Active in the development of process thought in China, he is a consultant to the Institute for Postmodern Development of China, and the Cobb Institute. His books include With Roots and Wings: Christianity in an Age of Ecology and Dialogue; Living from the Center: Spirituality in an Age of Consumerism; and Gandhi’s Hope: Learning from Other Religions as a Path to Peace.
Zhi Chen
Dr. Zhi Chen is President of United International College, Fellow of HKAH, and an internationally renowned scholar and researcher in Chinese Studies. His diversified interests in Chinese Studies include classical studies and early Chinese culture and history, historical writings, traditional Chinese poetry, excavated documents: bronze inscriptions and bamboo and silk writings, and intellectual history of the Ming and Qing dynasties. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of several prestigious academic journals and book series, both Chinese and English, and was appointed as local convenor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Panel of Humanities of RAE 2009-14. Professor Chen published extensively in the US, Europe, the UK, Japan, and Greater China Regions in top-tier venues. In addition to his remarkable scholarship, Professor Chen is an experienced university administrator. Apart from being the Head of the Department of Chinese at HKBU between 2010 and 2013, Professor Chen was Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts between 2015 and 2017. He was the founding Director of Mr. Simon Suen and Mrs. Mary Suen Sino-Human Institute between 2011 and 2014. Between 2012 and 2014, Professor Chen was appointed Founding Acting Director of Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology and became the Director from 2014 to present. From 2018, Professor Chen served as the Board Director of Wuhan College. Professor Chen joined Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College in 2018 as the Vice President (Academic) and was promoted to Provost in 2020. From 2022 to 2024, Professor Chen held the position of President at Hong Kong Chu Hai College. Presently, Professor Chen serves as President of Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College.
Tao Tang
Dr. Tao Tang is a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS), Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and Fellow of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM). Widely known for his expertise in computational mathematics, in particular high-order methods and adaptive grid methods, Professor Tang was awarded the Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis, the Feng Kang Prize for Scientific Computing, First Prize in Natural Science by Ministry of Education, and Second Prize in the National Natural Science Award. He gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2018. Professor Tang has long served in Canada and Hong Kong in a variety of key roles. From 2015 to 2019, he was appointed as the Vice-president and Provost at the Southern University of Science and Technology. From February 2019 to March 2024, he was the President of Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). At present, he serves as Director of UIC’s Institute for Advanced Study.
Christopher Hasty
Dr. Christopher Hasty is Emeritus Professor of Music Theory at Harvard University. His scholarly work engages problems in the theory and analysis of music from the 16th to the 20th centuries from the standpoint of process and experience. His book, Meter as Rhythm (1997) won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory for the Outstanding Music Theory Book of the Year. His current research interests include process philosophy, poetic prosody, and ecological and post-cognitivist psychology.
Juncheng Zhuang
Juncheng Zhuang (Johnson) is a distinguished professional recognized for his contributions in healthcare and research. He has been honored as one of the AACYF Top 30 Under 30 in 2021, acknowledging his achievements among outstanding Chinese young professionals in the USA. In the same year, he was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Alumni distinction by the China Council of Pennsylvania State University. Johnson holds a Master’s degree in Biotechnology from Georgetown University and a Bachelor’s degree in Health Policy Administration from Pennsylvania State University. He has also completed several certificate courses, including programs at Sun Yat-sen University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, and the Wharton School.
Keynote Speech
Ronny Desmet
Dr. Ronny Desmet is a Belgian postdoctoral researcher and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Whitehead Research Project. Prior to his retirement, he was a math teacher at Xaverius College in Antwerp, and was affiliated with the Centre of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Free University of Brussels. He became a master of mathematics in 1983 with a dissertation on the mathematics and philosophy of quantum mechanics; a master of philosophy in 2005 with a dissertation on the decline of the mechanistic worldview; and he obtained a PhD in 2010 for his study on Whitehead’s relativistic theory of gravitation. Among his publications are a 2010 collection of essays, co-edited by Michel Weber, Whitehead: The Algebra of Metaphysics (Les éditions Chromatika), and a 2016 collection of essays, Intuition in Mathematics and Physics: A Whiteheadian Approach (Process Century Press).
Whitehead at Harvard: A Century of Process Philosophy
Session 1 | The Development of Whitehead’s Thought in Harvard
Matt Segall
Dr. Matthew David Segall is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer, teacher, and philosopher applying process-relational thought across the natural and social sciences, as well as to the study of consciousness. He is Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Department at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee at the Cobb Institute. His most recent book is titled Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead (Revelore, 2023). Follow his work at footnotes2plato.substack.com.
‘No thinker thinks twice’: On the Attempt to Catch Whitehead in the Act of Philosophizing
Joe Petek
Dr. Joseph Petek is the Director of Research and Publication for the Whitehead Research Project and Executive Editor for the Critical Edition of Whitehead at Gonzaga University. He has co-edited three books on Whitehead: Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism (2017), Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925 (2020), and The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925–1927: General Metaphysical Problems of Science (2021). His latest book is Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead (2022), which examines the significance of Whitehead’s Harvard lectures and other previously unknown archival materials.
Waves on a Beach: The Advancing Tide of Whitehead's Harvard Classroom
Haipeng Guo・郭海鹏
Dr. Haipeng Guo currently serves as the Dean of School of General Education and Director of the Center for Whitehead Studies at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science (AI) from Kansas State University. In the past decade, his research interests have extended to whole person education, Confucianism and process philosophy. He has co-authored influential books such as “Introduction to Bayesian Networks” and “Introduction to Emotional Intelligence in Holistic Education,” “Towards the Whitehead’s Century”, demonstrating his interdisciplinary expertise.
郭海鹏博士现任北京师范大学香港浸会大学联合国际学院通识教育学院院长，兼怀特海研究中心主任。他拥有堪萨斯州立大学计算机与信息科学（AI）博士学位。在过去的十年里，他的研究兴趣已经从计算机科学扩展到全人教育、儒家思想和过程哲学。他与人合著了《贝叶斯网络引论》和《全人教育中的情商导论》、《迈向怀特海世纪》等书，展示了他的跨学科研究兴趣。
The Rhythm and Yin-Yang of Whitehead's Speculative Adventure of Ideas
George Lucas
Dr. George Lucas is newly-appointed A.N. Whitehead Visiting Professor and Director of the CPS Archives at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. He is Professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy, and recently retired after 10 years as General Editor of the Critical Edition of Whitehead. He wrote his doctoral dissertation at Northwestern University on Hegel and Whitehead in 1978, and subsequently wrote several books and articles on various kinds of process philosophy and their histories, culminating in The Rehabilitation of Whitehead: An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process Philosophy (State University of New York Press, 1990). He was thereafter the Editor of the SUNY series in Philosophy for 18 years. In 2023, his recent book, The Ordering of Time: Meditations on the History of Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) was awarded the J.N. Findlay prize for the best title in the field of metaphysics, 2019-2023, by the Metaphysical Society of America.
The Significance of Whitehead’s First Harvard Lecture, 1924
Jude Jones
Dr. Jude Jones teaches philosophy at Fordham University and is director of the Society for the Study of Process Philosophies. Her main areas of interest are the application of process metaphysical models to transforming moral practices; panpsychism and process models of consciousness; ongoing interests in the role of intensity in describing actuality in a process view. Her major work is Intensity: An Essay in Whiteheadian Ontology (1998).
Trying on Ideas at Harvard: Whitehead’s Thinking While Teaching
Session 2 | Whitehead’s Chinese Disciples at Harvard
Kun Wang・王锟
Dr. Kun Wang is the Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanities Studies at Zhejiang Normal University, holding a Ph.D. in History and a postdoctoral degree in Philosophy. He is a specially appointed professor and doctoral supervisor under the Shuanglong Scholars program at Zhejiang Normal University. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at National Taiwan University and has been invited for academic exchanges at Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, and Luhansk University in Ukraine. Currently, he serves as a director of the Chinese Zhu Xi Society and Vice President of the Zhejiang Zhu Xi Society. He is recognized as a leading mid-career academic in Zhejiang, a “Zhejiang Talent”, and a member of the “151 Talent Project’s third level” in Zhejiang Province. His main research areas are Chinese intellectual history, Confucianism, process philosophy, and political thought. He has led three national-level projects and five provincial/ministerial-level projects, published six books including “Confucius and Twentieth-Century Chinese Thought” and “The First Handshake Between Whitehead and Chinese Philosophy,” and authored over 70 academic papers published in journals such as “Philosophical Research,” many of which have been reprinted or excerpted in “Xinhua Digest” and “Chinese Social Sciences Digest.”
王锟教授，浙江师范大学人文高等研究院执行院长，历史学博士、哲学博士后，浙江师范大学双龙学者特聘教授，博士生导师，曾聘为台湾大学社会人文高等研究院客座研究员，受邀至美国天普大学、宾夕法尼亚大学、乌克兰卢甘斯克大学访学交流。现为中华朱子学会理事、浙江省朱子学会副会长，入选浙江省中青年学科带头人、浙江省“之江人才”、浙江省“151人才工程第三层次”，主要研究领域中国思想史、儒学、过程哲学、政治思想，主持国家级项目3项、省部级项目5项，出版《孔子与二十世纪中国思想》、《怀特海与中国哲学的第一次握手》等著作6部，在《哲学研究》等刊物发表学术论文70余篇，多篇被《新华文摘》《中国社会科学文摘》转载、摘编。
Whitehead's Chinese disciples at Harvard・怀特海在哈佛的中国弟子们
Zhihe Wang・王治河
Dr. Zhihe Wang, a former senior researcher of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is Co-director of China Project, Center for Process Studies as well as Director of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China, USA. Dr. Wang is a leading figure in constructive postmodern movement in China. Wang holds his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Claremont Graduate University. He holds both an MA and BA in Philosophy from Peking University. His areas of specialty include process philosophy, constructive postmodernism, ecological civilization, and second enlightenment. His recent publications include 10 books: Process and Pluralism: Chinese Thought on the Harmony of Diversity; Second Enlightenment (with Meijun Fan, 2011); Green Development and Innovation from A Global Perspective (with Jianjun Zhao), On the Way to Ecological Civilization: The Eco-Human Perspective (with Alexander). The Hungarian translation of Process and Pluralism: Chinese Thought on the Harmony of Diversity was published in 2020. He also published more than 160 articles in China, US, Poland, New Zealand, India, Bulgaria, Australia.
王治河博士，哲学博士。1978年考入北京大学哲学系，1985年重进燕园，拜著名哲学家朱德生先生为师，研习西方哲学。1988年获硕士学位。1988-1998年在中国社会科学院工作，任《国外社会科学》副主编。1998年赴美留学，博士毕业于美国克莱蒙研究生大学，师承美国著名建设性后现代思想家格里芬教授和柯布博士。现任美国过程研究中心中国部共同主任、美国中美后现代发展研究院常务副院长、北京师范大学–香港浸会大学联合国际学院怀特海研究中心研究员，兼任国内多所大学客座教授，新西兰《教育哲学与理论》，俄国《生态生成》杂志，中国《求是学刊》和《武汉理工大学学报》编委，国际生态发展联盟常务理事，中国绿发会生态社区发展基金专家顾问，匈牙利布达佩斯可持续发展研究中心顾问，韩国生态文明研究院顾问。
王博士深耕后现代哲学、过程哲学、生态文明、第二次启蒙20余年，主编、独著、合著《后现代主义辞典》、《第二次启蒙》、《后现代哲学思潮研究》，《怀特海与中国》，《过程与多元》 等中英文著作十部。在《中国社会科学》、《哲学研究》、《世界哲学》、美国《环境伦理学》，《东西方哲学》，《美国经济学与社会学杂志》，波兰《可持续发展研究》，保加利亚《巴尔干哲学》，印度《真理》等刊物发表中英文学术论文160余篇。其中文专著《后现代哲学思潮研究》一书，是国内第一部全面系统地研究后现代哲学思潮的学术专著，曾荣获中国社会科学院优秀成果一等奖，至今被引用逾2200次，在国内学术界产生了相当广泛的影响。其英文专著《过程与多元》的匈牙利版本已于2020年8月在布达佩斯特出版。
追慕前贤将学问与生命打成一片的境界，潜心学问的同时，王博士和他的团队致力于中西文化的深度交流和生态文明的研究与传播，已与中外有关单位合作举办了170余个有关生态文明，过程哲学和建设性后现代主义的国际会议，产生了相当的社会影响。其中克莱蒙“生态文明国际论坛”是研究院在海外推动生态文明的重要平台，它是首个在美国举行的、也是在海外影响最大的关于生态文明的国际论坛。通过与中央编译局，中国生态文明研究与促进会和中国绿发会等国内单位合作，迄今为止已成功举办了17届, 已有数千名中外学者，环保人士和官员参加了该论坛, 在国际社会产生了广泛的影响。2022年召开的第15届生态文明国际论坛获得了近1500万人的收看。
2023年第1期《鄱阳湖学刊》发表专辑《生态学术名家王治河》，介绍王治河博士的生态哲学研究。
Whitehead and the Second Enlightenment・怀特海与第二次启蒙
Li Yang・杨丽
Dr. Li Yang graduated in 1994 from the Department of Education at Harbin Normal University, earning a master’s degree in Educational Science with a specialization in Teaching Theory under the supervision of Professor Tang Wenzhong. In 2012, she earned a Ph.D. in Educational Science from the same institution, specializing in Curriculum and Teaching Theory, under the guidance of Professor Li Changji. She is currently a senior professor at the College of Educational Sciences at Harbin Normal University, a Doctor of Education, a doctoral supervisor, a specially appointed researcher at the Whitehead Research Center at the Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, and an expert receiving a special government allowance from the Heilongjiang Province. Her main research areas are the basic principles of curriculum and teaching theory, with significant contributions in the study of Whitehead’s educational thoughts and the application of Whitehead’s process philosophy in the field of education. She also holds prominent positions such as the executive director of the Teaching Theory Academic Committee of the Chinese Society of Education, the executive director of the Sociology of Education Committee of the Chinese Sociological Association, and the executive director of the Modern Educational Management Professional Committee of the Chinese Society for Educational Development Strategy.
杨丽教授, 1994年毕业于哈尔滨师范大学教育系，获教育学硕士学位，专业为教学论，导师为唐文中教授；2012毕业于哈尔滨师范大学教育系，获教育学博士学位，专业为课程与教学论，导师为李长吉教授。现为哈尔滨师范大学教育科学学院二级教授、教育学博士、博士生导师，北京师范大学——香港浸会大学联合国际学院怀特海研究中心特聘研究员，黑龙江省政府特殊津贴专家。主要研究方向为课程与教学论基本原理，在怀特海教育思想研究以及怀特海有机哲学在教育领域中运用研究方面成果显著。社会主要兼职有中国教育学会教育学分会教学论学术委员会常务理事、中国社会学会教育社会学专业委员会常务理事、中国教育发展战略学会现代教育管理专业委员会常务理事等。
Organic Education in China・有机教育在中国
Jianhui Li・李建会
Dr. Jianhui Li holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Peking University and is a second-level professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing Normal University, currently serving as the Dean of Academic Affairs at UIC. Before joining UIC, Professor Li was the Deputy Director of the Graduate Student Training Office at the Graduate School of Beijing Normal University and served as the Associate Dean of the Philosophy College for two years. Since 1996, Professor Li Jianhui has been invited as a visiting scholar to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard University, University of California Berkeley, Oxford University, the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge University, and Utrecht University. Professor Li Jianhui’s research areas include the philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, and the social study of science. His research has been supported by major, key, and general projects of the National Social Science Fund of China. He has published over eight books and more than 60 papers, two of which received the Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, and another received the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) from the Ministry of Education.
李建会教授，北京大学哲学博士，北京师范大学二级教授、博士生导师，现任UIC教务长。在加入UIC之前，李教授曾任北京师范大学研究生院研究生培养办公室副主任，并担任两年哲学学院副院长。自1996年以来，李建会教授被邀请到威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校、哈佛大学、加州大学伯克利分校、牛津大学、剑桥大学李约瑟研究所和乌得勒支大学担任访问学者。李建会教授的研究领域包括认知科学哲学、心灵哲学、生物学哲学和科学的社会研究。他的研究得到了国家社会科学基金重大项目、重点项目和一般项目的支持。他出版了8本以上的书籍和60多篇论文。其中两本书获得了北京市哲学社会科学优秀成果奖，另一本书获得了教育部（人文社会科学）高校科研优秀成果奖。
The debate between Einstein and Bergson and its impact on Whitehead・爱因斯坦与伯格森的世纪论战及其对怀特海的影响
Session 3 | Whitehead and China
Fubin Yang・杨富斌
Dr. Fubin Yang holds a PhD in Philosophy from Renmin University of China and was a visiting scholar at Claremont Graduate University in the USA, under the mentorship of John B. Cobb Jr. He serves as an executive director of the Chinese Historical Materialism Society and as the executive chairman of the Human Development Research Society. Formerly the dean of the School of Law and Politics at Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute, he is now the executive dean and distinguished professor at the Honors College of Beijing Institute of Technology Zhuhai Campus, the director of the Ecological Civilization Expansion Center, a part-time professor at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), and a researcher at the Whitehead Research Center. His main research interests include Marxist philosophy, modern Western philosophy, Whitehead’s process philosophy, and constructive postmodern ecological civilization theories. He is the chief editor of the Chinese edition of the Complete Works of Whitehead and has published multiple translations including Whitehead’s Process and Reality, The Concept of Nature, and An Inquiry into the Principles of Natural Knowledge.
杨富斌教授，中国人民大学哲学博士，美国加州克莱蒙研究生大学访问学者，师从小约翰•柯布院士。兼任中国历史唯物主义学会常务理事、人的发展研究会执行理事长。北京第二外国语学院原法政学院院长，现为北京理工大学珠海学院荣誉学院执行院长、特聘教授，生态文明拓展中心主任，北京师范大学–香港浸会大学联合国际学院（UIC）兼职教授、怀特海研究中心研究员。主研马克思主义哲学、现代西方哲学、怀特海过程哲学和建设性后现代生态文明理论等。担任《怀特海全集》中文版主编，出版怀特海《过程与实在》、《自然的概念》、《自然知识原理研究》等译著多部。
A Comparison of the Process Concepts of Marx and Whitehead・马克思与怀特海过程观之比较
Tzeki Hon・韩子奇
Dr. Tzeki Hon currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). After obtaining his bachelor’s degree from the University of Hong Kong, he pursued further studies in the United States, earning a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Over the past twenty-plus years, he has taught at Hanover College in Indiana (1992-1996), SUNY Geneseo (1996-2016), and City University of Hong Kong (2017-2021). Professor Hon specializes in the study of the Yijing (I Ching), Chinese cultural history, modern intellectual history, and the transmission of Chinese classics to the West. He has published three books: The Yijing and Chinese Politics (2005), Revolution as Restoration (2013), The Allure of the Nation (2015); and co-authored Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes) (2014) with Geoffrey Redmond, which instructs Westerners on how to read the I Ching. He has also edited six volumes of collected papers, including Confucianism for the Contemporary World (2017), Cold War Cities (2021), and The Other Yijing (2022). His papers appear in journals such as the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Modern China, Monumenta Serica, and the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies.
韩子奇教授现任职于北师港浸大人文社科学院院长，他取得香港大学学士学位后，到美国留学获密西根大学硕士和芝加哥大学博士学位。过去二十多年来，他曾先后任教于印第安纳州汉诺威学院（1992-1996）、纽约州立大学杰纳苏分校（1996-2016）和香港城市大学（2017-2021）。韩子奇教授专门研究《易经》、中国文化史、近代思想史和中国经典西传。他曾出版三本著作：The Yijing and Chinese Politics (2005), Revolution as Restoration (2013), The Allure of the Nation (2015)；与Geoffrey Redmond合写了 Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes) (2014)，教西方人如何读《易经》。 他先后编了六本论文集，包括 Confucianism for the Contemporary World (2017), Cold War Cities (2021) 和 The Other Yijing (2022)。 他的论文散见于 Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Modern China, Monumenta Serica 以及 Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 等。
Yijing and Process Cosmology・周易与过程哲学
Philip Clayton
Dr. Philip Clayton is Ingraham Professor of Theology at Claremont School of Theology and affiliated faculty with Claremont Graduate University. A constructive Christian theologian, Philip has been a leader in dialogues with science, contemporary philosophy, and religious traditions East and West. He is particularly interested in the evolving understanding of Christian faith in the 21st century, and the societal changes that are necessary for establishing sustainable forms of civilization on this planet.
Whitehead on Civilizations, Ecological and Otherwise
John Becker
Dr. John Becker is a Lecturer of Religious Studies at California State University, Long Beach. In 2017, he received the International Process Network’s Young Scholar Award. He is a member of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies and a Research Fellow for The Institute for Postmodern Development of China, USA. His research interests include process thought, comparative theology (Buddhism-Christianity), religions and ecology, and religious pluralism. He is co-editor of Process Thought and Roman Catholicism.
The Harmonies of Harmony: The Chinese Tradition and Whitehead on Harmony
Qiuhong Han・韩秋红
Dr. Qiuhong Han is doctoral supervisor and distinguished professor at Northeast Normal University (NENU), and the first recipient of the NENU Outstanding Teacher Excellence Award. She has received numerous accolades including the “High-Level Talent Special Support Program” National Teaching Master, National Excellent Teacher, and Baogang Award for Outstanding Teacher. She is one of the first lecturers of national offline first-class undergraduate courses and national excellent courses. She is the principal investigator of major projects funded by the National Social Science Fund and the chief expert of major social science projects of the Ministry of Education. Her project on the Sinicization of Western Philosophy, which was a major project funded by the National Social Science Fund, was included in the National Philosophy and Social Science Achievement Library. She enjoys the special government allowance from the State Council and has served as a member of the Jilin Provincial Political Consultative Conference for the 9th, 10th, and 11th terms. Currently, she is the director of the Provincial Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences, the “Research Center for the Modernity Theory of Western Marxism” at NENU, and the leader of the key discipline direction (Research on Foreign Marxism) at NENU. She also serves as the vice president of the National Association for Foreign Marxism Research, and a standing director of the Chinese Association for the History of Foreign Philosophy and the Chinese Society for Modern Foreign Philosophy. Her research primarily focuses on the modernity theory of Western Marxism and the Sinicization of Western philosophy. The courses she teaches on the history of Western philosophy and modern Western philosophical trends have been rated as national excellent courses. She has published over a hundred academic papers, more than ten of which have been fully reprinted by Xinhua Digest and China Social Science Digest. She is the editor-in-chief of the “Research Series on the Modernity Theory of Western Marxism” (10 volumes, People’s Publishing House) and the author of several books, including “The Humanistic Spirit of Western Philosophy,” “The Myth and Reality of Modernity,” and “An Introduction to Foreign Marxism.”
韩秋红教授东北师范大学二级教授，博士生导师，东北师范大学仿吾特聘教授、东北师范大学优秀教师卓越成就奖第一得主。曾获国家“高层次人才特殊支持计划”教学名师、全国优秀教师、宝钢奖优秀教师，首批国家线下一流本科课程主讲教师、国家精品课程主讲教师。国家社科基金重大招标项目主持人，教育部社科重大课题攻关项目首席专家。主持的国家社科基金重大招标项目结项成果《西方哲学中国化史论》入选国家哲学社会科学成果文库。国务院政府特殊津贴享有者，吉林省第九、十、十一届政协委员。现任东北师范大学省级人文社科重点研究基地“西方马克思主义现代性理论研究中心”主任，东北师范大学重点建设学科方向（国外马克思主义研究）负责人；兼任全国国外马克思主义研究学会副会长，中华全国外国哲学史学会、中国现代外国哲学学会常务理事等。主要从事西方马克思主义现代性理论、西方哲学中国化等领域的研究。主讲的西方哲学史、现代西方哲学思潮课程被评为国家级精品课程。发表学术论文百余篇，其中十篇以上被《新华文摘》、《中国社会科学文摘》等全文转载，主编“西方马克思主义现代性理论研究丛书”（10部，人民出版社），著有 《西方哲学的人文精神》《现代性的迷思与真相》《国外马克思主义概论》等多部著作。
Session 4 | Roundtable: The Future of Process Philosophy
Catherine Keller
Dr. Catherine Keller is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in The Graduate Division of Religion, Drew University. She works amidst the tangles of ecosocial, pluralist, feminist philosophy of religion and theology—and always as a process thinker. Her books include Face of the Deep; On the Mystery; Cloud of the Impossible; Political Theology of the Earth. She has co-edited several volumes of the Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium, most recently Political Theology on Edge: Ruptures of Justice and Belief in the Anthropocene. Her latest monograph is Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances.
Mary Elizabeth Moore
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Moore is Dean Emerita and Professor of Theology and Education in Boston University School of Theology. Her passion is to journey with others to build compassionate and prophetic communities, and a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world. She feels privileged to work toward those ends as a board member of the Cobb Institute, especially in the practices of nurturing spirit, building justice, resisting violence, struggling against oppression, and caring for the earth. Some of her books include: Teaching as a Sacramental Act; Covenant and Call; Ministering with the Earth; and Teaching from the Heart: Theology and Educational Method. She has engaged actively in justice work in the church and in intercultural, interreligious relationship-building in local, professional, and academic settings.
Randy Auxier
Dr. Randall Auxier was educated in the philosophy departments of the University of Memphis (B.A. 1986 and M.A. 1988) and Emory University (MA 1991 and Ph.D, 1992). His specialization in semiotics and symbol theory prepared him for a career spanning from extensive work in logic and metaphysics to popular culture and practical ethics, all based on symbolic and semiotic systems. He is the author of many articles and book chapters, and has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited over twenty books. His most recent books Logic: From Images to Digits (2021); As Deep as It Gets: Movies and Metaphysics (2021); and Persuasion: The Real Process of Imaginative Thinking (2021). He has been elected President of the Illinois Philosophical Association and the Southwestern Philosophical Society, and has served as the editor of The Personalist Forum (1997-2006) and The Pluralist (2006-2012). He is currently the Deputy Chief Editor of Eidos: A Journal of the Philosophy of Culture. In 2016 he co-founded the American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought, a 501(c)(3) scholarly private foundation to foster research in humanistic thought, as related especially to the United States.
Meijun Fan・樊美筠
Dr. Meijun Fan was a professor at Beijing Normal University for more than ten years. Now she is the co-director of the China Project at the Center for Process and the program director of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China. She completed her doctoral studies at Beijing Normal University and master program at Peking University. Her areas of specialty include Chinese traditional aesthetics, process philosophy and aesthetical education. She has authored several books including: Aesthetic Development of Children (1990), Beauty in Human Life (1993), Contemporary Interpretation of Chinese Traditional Aesthetic (1997), The Popular Aesthetics in Qing Dynasty (2001), and The Second Enlightenment with Zhihe Wang (2011).
樊美筠博士，美国过程研究中心中国部主任，中美后现代发展研究院项目主任，柯布生态书院院长, 全球生态教育联盟共同创始人，《世界文化论坛报》主编。主要研究兴趣：中国传统美学，生态美学，过程哲学与过程教育。发表《中国传统美学的当代阐释》等专著6部，《第二次启蒙》，《柯布与中国：直观柯布后现代生态文明思想》等合著7部。在中国《哲学研究》，《文艺研究》，美国《环境伦理学》，《东西方哲学》，《美国经济学与社会学杂志》，波兰《可持续发展研究》，保加利亚《巴尔干哲学杂志》等杂志发表《生态文明是一场全方位的伟大变革》、《后现代有机美学对现代实体美学的反思与超越》、《怀特海美学初探》等中英文学术论文近100篇。
Andrew M. Davis
Dr. Andrew M. Davis is an American process philosopher, theologian, and scholar of the cosmos. He is program director for the Center for Process Studies where he researches, writes, and organizes conferences on various aspects of process-relational thought. An advocate of metaphysics and meaning in a hospitable universe, he approaches philosophy as the endeavor to systematically think through what reality must be like because we are a part of it. He is an author, editor and co-editor of several books including Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy which was nominated for the International Society of Science and Religion’s 2022 Book Prize and most recently, Metaphysics of Exo-Life: Toward a Constructive Whiteheadian Cosmotheology (SacraSage, 2023). Follow his work at www.andrewmdavis.info
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