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The Center for Process Studies is looking to expand our team by hiring two contractors to help with our growing technology and media needs! We are now accepting applications for a professional video editor as well as a virtual event & recording technician. The latter role will assist with hosting Zoom meetings and podcast recordings and the former will be responsible for editing and publishing the recordings from all these activities. Qualified candidates are welcome to apply for one or both roles. Applications are open until May 31, 2026 or until the positions are filled.
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The latest issue of Process Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1) brings together six original articles that push the boundaries of process thought across philosophy, science, and metaphysics. This issue features Randall Auxier on Susanne Langer’s theory of image and gestalt, Traill Dowie and Julien Tempone-Wiltshire on the intersections of process philosophy and complexity science, Shajara (Hilan) Bensusan’s exploration of pan-perceptualism and pan-mnemism, Noel Boulting on imagination in Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy, Brianne Donaldson’s critical examination of human exceptionalism through animal studies, and Pedro A. D. Brea’s engagement with Deleuze on energy, intensity, and time. The issue also includes three reviews articles by Jeremy R. Hustwit, Adis Duderija, and Jiang Wen-Jing.
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The Center for Process Studies is proud to announce the launch of the Process & Science Network (PSN), a new program dedicated to cultivating rigorous dialogue between process philosophy and the natural sciences. PSN was established in response to the growing inadequacies of the dominant worldview of scientific materialism which has systematically excluded mind, purpose, and value from its conception of nature. While anchored in Whitehead's philosophy of organism, PSN is committed to intellectual pluralism—welcoming traditions that preceded, extended, ran parallel to, or even diverged from Whitehead. The network's vision is one where philosophical differences become productive research contrasts rather than institutional fractures.
- Matthew David Segall, Wm. Andrew Schwartz
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As part of our new SPARKS initiative, we are curating online art exhibitions that invite members of our community to share works inspired by process-relational thought & practice. Each exhibition will have a specific theme which will explore a key concept such as concrescence, prehension, nexus, eternal objects, or creativity through visual, sonic, literary, or multimedia works. We invite you to submit photography, writings, painting, theater, poetry, music, animation, dance, gardening, sound, cooking, documented performance, or other creative expressions that resonate with the chosen theme.
- Richard Livingston
- Call for Submissions
The conference Whitehead for Education, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences: In Pursuit of a Metamorphosis of Pedagogy, held in Katowice, Poland on September 25, 2025, was met with an exceptionally positive response and exceeded initial expectations. A further significant outcome of the conference is the decision by the editors of Folia Philosophica to dedicate two forthcoming issues to process philosophy, as well as their expressed commitment to ongoing collaboration. The success of the conference and the forthcoming journal issues represent an important step forward for the advancement of process philosophy in Poland and beyond.
- Bogdan Ogrodnik
- Call for Papers
The Center for Process Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Revue Roumaine de Philosophie Tome 69, Nr. 2 (2025), a special open-access issue dedicated to “Whitehead and Idealism,” featuring research first presented at a 2024 conference of the same name organized by Constantin Rădulescu-Motru Institute of Philosophy and Psychology of the Romanian Academy, Department of Western Philosophy. Invited editors Bogdan Rusu and Claudiu Baciu curate a wide-ranging collection that reopens the question of Alfred North Whitehead’s relationship to the idealist tradition—an inquiry newly relevant at a time when philosophical interest in metaphysics, panpsychism, and speculative thought is once again gaining momentum.
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This global gathering of scholars, educators, and practitioners marks a pivotal moment to engage Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy in dialogue with the pressing challenges and transformative opportunities of the 21st century. The theme of the 2026 International Whitehead Conference is: “Process Philosophy in a Time of Polycrisis: Science, Meaning, and Civilization.” The conference will explore how process thought can illuminate the great transitions of our time—toward a more sustainable, creative, and compassionate world. We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations for concurrent breakout sessions organized around 12 thematic tracks.
- Wm. Andrew Schwartz
- Call for Papers
Our latest issue of Process Studies has just been released! This issue of Process Studies contains four articles that were originally delivered as papers at the conference “A Century of Process Thought: Commemorating Whitehead's Legacy at Harvard and Beyond” that occurred on September 27, 2024, at Harvard.
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This conference will be the first to birth a long overdue intellectual exchange as it offers an improved metaphysical framework for value and consciousness in all ontological entities to address various concerns that are facing humanity: economy, political, and environmental. Although there are hesitant answers to some of these global challenges facing humanity, the influence of substance-based analysis has yet to offer penetrative answers, in addition to the almost complete lack of interaction among scholars of process to explore their common ground for a common voice in the way that substance thought has done over the centuries. Based on the foregoing established gap, abstracts, not more than 250 words, are invited from scholars and researchers of all traditions in philosophic history.
- Emmanuel Ofuasia
- Call for Papers
The Mind-at-Large project is soliciting papers that engage creatively and critically with the re-emerging paradigm of “mind-at-large,” traversing multiple thresholds of philosophical, scientific, and cultural discourse, including but not limited to: Philosophy of Mind; Mind & Matter; Biology & Consciousness; 4E Cognition; Indigenous and Animist Perspectives; History of Science & the Disenchantment of Nature; Theology & Cosmology; and Extraordinary Experience.
- Andrew M. Davis
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