Center for Process Studies

"The Center for Process Studies (CPS) is a research center of Claremont School of Theology, in affiliation with Claremont Graduate University. CPS seeks to promote the common good by means of the relational approach found in process thought. Process thought is based on the work of philosophers Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, two contemporary examples of a longstanding philosophical tradition that emphasizes becoming and change over static being. Process thought helps to harmonize moral, aesthetic, and religious intuitions with scientific insights. It also grounds discussion between Eastern and Western religious and cultural traditions. Process thought offers an approach to the social, political, and economic order that brings issues of human justice together with a concern for ecology. Our wide range of interests includes multicultural, feminist, ecological, inter-religious, political, and economic concerns." [1]

The Centers journal Process Studies notes: "Process Studies (ISSN: 0360-6503) is a scholarly peer-reviewed, and refereed academic, journal of the Center for Process Studies. Issues are published twice a year. It is the leading international journal in its field, and is dedicated to the study of the thought and wide-ranging implications of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and his intellectual associates, most notably Charles E. Hartshorne (1897-2000), and others like William James (1842-1910), Charles Sanders Pierce (1839-1914) and Henri Bergson (1859-1941)." [2]

• Andrew Schwartz, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies

Co-Directors

• Philip Clayton
• John B. Cobb, Jr.
• Monica A. Coleman
• Roland Faber
• David Ray Griffin
• Marjorie Suchocki

Affiliations[3]

• Australasian Association for Process Thought
• Caribbean Integral Institute for Sustainable development of Human Experience
• Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences
• Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
• Chromatiques Whiteheadiennes
• Cosmos and History
• European Society for Process Thought
• International Process Network
• Society for the Study of Process Philosophies
• Toward Ecological Civilization