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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 »*Postponed* The Philosophy of Psychedelics: Exploring Frameworks for Exceptional Experience
***This event has been postponed. For updates, please visit philosophyofpsychedelics.com.*** 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…
Find out more »*Postponed* Ecological Civilization and Organic Communitarianism
***We regrettably inform you that the 14th International Forum on Ecological Civilization & the 3rd International Youth Forum on Ecological Civilization must be postponed due to the coronavirus. The Forum was scheduled to be held from April 24-25 in Claremont, California, and April 27 at Willamette University, in Oregon.
We have learned that the U.S. Embassies in Beijing and Shanghai will not reopen until the beginning of May. Consequently, Chinese participants have no way to get their visas before our forum. We feel very sorry about this postponement and will keep you informed about rescheduling.
Your understanding is very greatly appreciated. For updates, please visit www.postmodernchina.org. ***
Process Theology Summer Institute
The 2020 Process Theology Summer Institute is a 1-week concentration that includes three different adventures into process theology. The first segment will be a crash course on the fundamentals of process theology. The second segment will focus on putting process theology to work in the world. The third segment will put process theology in conversation with cutting-edge scientific insights. This year's course will be held across three locations: Claremont, CA; Salem, OR; and wherever you are! Join classes in person…
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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