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American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting Call for Papers 2025

Call for Papers | American Philosophical Association Pacific Division

We are excited to share three calls for paper proposals for the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting the spring of 2025: the Society for the Philosophy of Creativity; the Personalist Discussion Group; and the Society for the Study of Process Philosophy. Please include a paper title and a brief description of what you're proposing to present. The deadline for a proposal and commitment to attend is September 15, 2024.
  • Olav Bryant Smith
  • Call for Papers
Process Summer Academy China

Reflections on the 17th Process Summer Academy and International Symposium

This year’s summer academy, July 8-13, was called “Zhuhai Process Academy”—the 17th process summer academy hosted in China. The inaugural summer academy can be traced back to 2006 and was held in Guilin, Guangxi Province. The “Zhuhai Process Academy” offered participants an introduction to Whitehead’s process philosophy, including basic metaphysical ideas and vocabulary, ontology and epistemology, biography of Whitehead, a history of the connection between process philosophy and China, and personal and social implications of process thought.
  • Justin Heinzekehr
  • Report
A Century of Process Thought: Commemorating Whitehead’s Legacy at Harvard & Beyond - Friday, September 27, 2024 at Harvard

Celebrate 100 Years of Whitehead’s Legacy at Harvard with the Center for Process Studies

Do you have an idea for an article engaging various streams of process thinking or dealing with some of the major topic areas of Center for Process Studies (ecological civilization, deep religious pluralism, religion & science, philosophy of psychedelics, cosmology, transdisciplinary research, etc.)? We'd love to hear your proposals! 
  • Andrew M. Davis
  • Conference
The Center for Process Studies blog is accepting submissions!

The Center for Process Studies Blog is Accepting Submissions!

Do you have an idea for an article engaging various streams of process thinking or dealing with some of the major topic areas of Center for Process Studies (ecological civilization, deep religious pluralism, religion & science, philosophy of psychedelics, cosmology, transdisciplinary research, etc.)? We'd love to hear your proposals! 
  • Jared Morningstar
  • Call for Papers
Claremont Eco Forum Group Photo

17th International Forum on Ecological Civilization Conference Retrospect

John Cobb delivered a plenary speech which set the tone for the EcoForum. After reviewing the development of the concept of Ecological Civilization, which was presented as a vital concern for both China and USA, Professor Cobb dedicated this 17th EcoForum—and the first to convene in-person since the pandemic—as an occasion to launch an energetic new trans-Pacific dialogue between these two great nations.
  • E. Christopher Mare
  • Conference, Report
China Project Summer 2024 Activities

Center for Process Studies China Project Summer Programming, 2024

Here's what the Center for Process Studies China Project and the Institute for Postmodern Development of China have coming up this summer!
  • Meijun Fan
  • General Announcement
CALL FOR PAPERS - Whitehead and Idealism

Call for Papers | Whitehead and Idealism

The intention behind the organization of this conference is to give scholars interested in the idealist aspects of Whitehead’s philosophy the opportunity to discuss and assess the relevance of the various strands of the idealist tradition to Whitehead’s metaphysics and to process metaphysics generally, as well as the relevance of process-relational philosophy to present day anti-materialist explorations in general metaphysics and philosophy of mind.
  • Bogdan Rusu
  • Call for Papers
Process Studies and South Asia Fellowship

UCI Process Studies & South Asia Fellowship 2024-25

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) Program in Religious Studies supports promising PhD students or recent graduates (within 1 year of graduating with PhD and in an teaching or independent research position of some kind) to pursue targeted scholarship in Process-relational philosophy in substantive dialog with any aspect of South Asian traditions and praxis. Projects that engage the Jain tradition are particularly welcome.
  • Brianne Donaldson
  • General Announcement
Call for Papers | The Great Turning: Towards an Ecological Civilization Aiming at the Common Good of Humanity and Nature

Call for Papers | The Great Turning: Towards an Ecological Civilization Aiming at the Common Good of Humanity and Nature

The 17th International Forum on Ecological Civilization and 6th International Youth Forum on Ecological Civilization are seeking papers. Please submit a 500-word abstract in English outlining your ideas. The deadline for abstract submission is May 10th, 2024.
  • Andrew M. Davis
  • Call for Papers
Metaphysics and the Matter with Things: Thinking with Iain McGilchrist Conference Retrospect

Metaphysics and the Matter with Things: Thinking with Iain McGilchrist Conference Retrospect

Metaphysics and the Matter with Things was a well spring of humanity. Anchored by the work of psychiatrist and literary scholar Dr. Iain McGilchrist, the conference took its namesake from his recently published two volume set, The Matter with Things. McGilchrist’s masterwork presents a compelling case for what he terms “the hemisphere hypothesis” by demonstrating with exhaustive evidence the phenomenological distinctions between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
  • Kevin Dowling
  • Conference, Report

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