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Process and Reality Course with John Cobb
In this six-session course John Cobb will provide an introduction to one of the most compelling and challenging philosophical texts of the Twentieth Century. Process and Reality is a notoriously difficult text, but the goal of this course is to enable students to not only skim the surface but probe its deeper dimensions. With his decades of experience as a scholar and teacher of Whitehead, Cobb will elucidate the major themes and illuminate the major concepts in a way that is accessible…
Find out more »The Philosophy of Psychedelics: Exploring Frameworks for Exceptional Experience
In recent years a resurgence of studies into psychedelic states of experience has arisen in the cognitive sciences to such an extent as to gain the moniker, The Psychedelic Renaissance. The focus of these scientific studies has been upon the immediate medicinal value that psychedelics may bestow; but the value that the examination of such exceptional experiences may bestow upon the philosophy of mind, phenomenology, ethics, and academic metaphysics is a field yet to be mapped. To such an end, we are pleased…
Find out more »Ecological Civilization and Organic Communitarianism
The forum will bring together creative academics, non-profit leaders, governmental officials, and leading activists to explore fresh ideas on organic communitarianism in theory and practice.
Find out more »Process Theology Summer Institute
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Find out more »Thirteenth Biennial Personalist Seminar: Whitehead and Berdyaev
Program About 15-25 participants Program Structure In the 1957 Journal of Religion Charles Hartshorne published an important article “Whitehead and Berdyaev: Is There Tragedy in God?” The Thirteenth Personalist Seminar will center around Alfred N. Whitehead and Nicolas Berdyaev, with separate days devoted to different aspects of their work. The first day will introduce the group to Whitehead and Berdyaev in their contexts. These discussions will be led by George Lucas, distinguished Chair in Ethics in the Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center…
Find out more »6th European Summer School in Process Thought
The European Society for Process Thought together with the Polish Whitehead Metaphysical Society announces the 6th European Summer School in Process Thought, which will be concerned with the differences of nature and beauty as well as of nature and culture and the resulting implications for the time of “Great Change” we face. Call for Papers: Deadline: June 15, 2020 Contact: piotrles1@wp.pl Visit espt.eu for more detail “Beauty is the mutual adaptation of the several factors in an occasion of experience.” (Whitehead,…
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