SCHEDULE OF LECTURES & MEETINGS
TUESDAY
OPENING ADDRESSES (7:30-8:30 PM: Mudd Auditorium)
Greetings from the Japan Process Society on Its 20th Anniversary
Hiroshi Endo (Wasada University & President, JPS)
Being Bold: Anticipating a Whiteheadian Century
David Ray Griffin (Claremont School of Theology & CPS)
W E D N E S D A Y
WEDNESDAY AM PLENARY ADDRESS (8:20-9:00: Mudd)
Whiteheadian Peace: Proposition and Experience
Isabelle Stengers (Free University of Brussels)
WEDNESDAY AM MEETINGS (9:15-11:15)
AESTHETICS AND THE ARTS (Library Trever Room)
Ultimate Reality and Meaning in Nikos Kazantzakis
Daniel A. Dombrowski (Seattle University)
Alfred North Whitehead in Conversation with Nikos Kazantzakis
Ashley Pillow (Rhodes College [Tennessee])
APPE (Craig 103)
Whitehead and Learning: Works in Progress
Various members of APPE
CHINESE CULTURE (Craig 105)
Postmodernization: A Challenge for Chinese Culture
Zhuoxing Su (Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University)
Constructive Postmodernism Studies in China
Zhihe Wang (Social Sciences Abroad, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS (Craig 110)
Metaphysical Aspects of Naturalness
Susan J. Armstrong (Humboldt State University)
Does Leopold’s Land Ethic Need Process Theology?
Noel Boulting (NOBOSS Philosophical Society; University of
Great Falls [Montana])
HERMENEUTICS (Mudd TV Studio)
A Critique of Culture
Russell Pregeant (Curry College)
The Historical Jesus
David Lull (National Council of Churches)
KOREAN CULTURE (Craig 111)
Han Philosophy and Process Philosophy
Young Woon Ko (Ph.D. student, Boston University)
Han and Theodicy
Andrew Sung Park (United Theological Seminary [Dayton])
LIBERATION AND POLITICAL THEOLOGY (Haddon Conference Center)
Coping with Historical Failure: Classical Eschatology, Scientific Materialism, and Process Theology
Jorge Pixley (Seminario Teologica Bautista [Managua])
Impracticable Ideals and Social Change: Whitehead, Human Agency, and Liberation Theology
Luis G. Pedraja (Perkins School of Theology [SMU])
PHENOMENOLOGY AND ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY (Butler 201)
Relational Particulars and Whitehead’s Metaphysics
John W. Lango (Hunter College of CUNY)
A Process View of the Flesh: Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty
William S. Hamrick (S. Illinois Univ. at Edwardsville)
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIOLOGY (Butler Student Lounge)
Whitehead’s Thought and Metaphoric Language
Isamu Nagami (Rikkyo University)
Culturology and Cosmology
Palmer Talbutt (Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State Univ)
PHYSICS AND WHITEHEAD (Cooper Board Room)
Order & Emergence (Moderator: Lawrence Fagg)
Presentations: Geoffrey Chew (UC Berkeley), John Jungerman (UC Davis), Joseph Earley (Georgetown University)
PROCESS THEOLOGY (ABMC Seminar Room)
The Active Future as Divine
Lewis S. Ford (Old Dominion University [emeritus])
Some Theological-Political Remarks on a Fusion of Eastern and Western
Civilizations
Tokiyuki Nobuhara (Keiwa College [Japan])
SCIENCE AND RELIGION (Chapel)
A Whiteheadian Case for Diversity in Science and Religion
Nancy Howell (Saint Paul School of Theology)
Nature & Creation: Perspectives on the Difference of Science and Religion
Hans-Joachim Sander (University of Wurzburg)
SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIETY (Library Small Seminar Room)
Six Dimensions of Spirituality: A Whiteheadian Approach
Jay McDaniel (Hendrix College [Arkansas])
Process Spirituality
Jeffrey Sanders (Ph.D. candidate, Claremont Graduate Univ.)
THOMAS AND WHITEHEAD (Craig 106)
Participation, Process, and the Good: Toward a New Metaphysical Synthesis of Thomas and Whitehead
James W. Felt, S.J. (Santa Clara University)
God and the Community of Existents: St. Thomas & Whitehead
W. Norris Clarke, S.J. (Fordham University [emeritus])
WEDNESDAY AM INVITED LECTURES (11:45-12:30)
The Process Worldview as an Ethic in a World of Uneasy Pluralism, Incomplete Democratization, and Economic Injustice (Mudd)
Martin Prozesky (University of Natal [South Africa])
What Can I as a Japanese Pure Land Buddhist Learn from Whitehead and Hartshorne? (Haddon Conference Center)
Ryusei Takeda (Ryukoku University)
Behavioral Genetics: The New Reductionism? (Chapel)
Kevin Sharpe (Editor, Science and Spirit [Concord, NH])
WEDNESDAY PM MEETINGS (2:00-4:00)
BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS EAST & WEST (Mudd Auditorium)
Can Corporations Assume Responsibility for the Environment?
John B. Cobb, Jr. (Center for Process Studies)
Organizational Ethics: Why Is It Necessary for Contemporary and Coming Civilizations?
Haruo Murata (St. Andrew’s University)
CHINESE CULTURE / KOREAN CULTURE (joint session; Butler 201)
The Concept of Process: A Confucian Perspective and Its Relation to Whitehead
Wenyu Xie (Ph.D. student, Claremont Graduate School)
Taoism and Process Theology
Young Hertig (United Theol. Seminary [Dayton])
EDUCATION FOR THE GOOD OF THE WORLD (Chapel)
Education and the Evolution of the Cosmos
Ron Miller (The Bellwether School [Williston, VT])
Senses of Liberal Education in Whitehead’s Educational Philosophy
Noel E. Boulting (NOBOSS Philosophical Society; University of Great Falls [Montana])
ETHICS (Haddon Conference Center)
Divine Relativity and Pragmatic Theology: Converging Streams of Cosmic Appreciation in an African American Philosophy of Religion
Victor Anderson (Vanderbilt University)
“Process and Reality”: A Resource for Parsing Ethics
Theodore Walker, Jr. (Perkins School of Theology [SMU])
EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHY (Craig 106)
The Problem of Time & Eternity in Organic Philosophy as Compared to Martin Heidegger’s Existential Philosophy
Eiko Hanaoka (Osaka Prefecture University)
Whitehead & Nietzsche on Nihilism
J. Thomas Howe (Ph.D. cand., Claremont Grad. University)
FEMINISM (Library Trever Room)
God and the Socially Located Subject: A Process Framework for Poststructural Feminism
Sarah H. Lancaster (Methodist. Theological School in Ohio)
The Subjective Aims of Adolescent Girls
Carolyn Bohler (United Theological Seminary [Dayton])
MEDICINE (Craig 105)
Prayer, Process, and the Future of Medicine
Bruce Epperly (Georgetown University)
Philosophy of Medicine from a Whiteheadian Perspective
John Gilroy (Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois)
METAPHYSICAL COSMOLOGY (Craig 111)
Plato, Hartshorne, and the World Soul
Daniel A. Dombrowski (Seattle University)
Whitehead’s Personal Universe: Fact or Fiction?
Stanley Harrison (Marquette University)
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION (Library Small Seminar Room)
Revising Analogy: A Response to Ogden
Andrew Kerr (University of Chicago Divinity School)
Ontology & the Other: On Whitehead’s and Levinas’ Ontological
Concept of God
Roland Faber (University of Vienna)
PHYSICS AND WHITEHEAD (Cooper Board Room)
Fundamental Processes (Moderator: Phillip Clayton)
Presentations: David Finkelstein (Georgia Tech), Harry Papatheodorou (Birkbeck College [London]), Henry Stapp (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)
PROCESS AND FAITH (Craig 103)
Process Thought and the Revitalization of the Church
Patricia Adams Farmer (Orangethorpe Christian Church) and Ronald Farmer (Chapman University)
Discussion of Eight Paths to Forgiveness
Robert Brizee (Brizee & Brizee Counseling [Wenatchee, WA])
PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (Craig 110)
Actual Entity and Structure: Convergencies between Whitehead’s Organismic Metaphysics and Piaget’s Genetic Structuralism
Frank Riffert (University of Salzburg)
A Process Approach Applied to the Empirical Neuropsychological Study of Language
Avraham Schweiger (City University of New York)
ROMAN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY (Mudd TV Studio)
The Pastoral Constitution of Theology: Process Perspectives in the Second Vatican Council
Hans-Joachim Sander (University of Wurzburg)
Process Catholicism: Common Ground for the Common Good
Robert L. Kinast (Ctr. for Theological Reflection [Florida])
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF WHITEHEAD’S WRITINGS (ABMC Seminar Room)
The Other Concept of God in Process and Reality
Denis Hurtubise (Universite Saint-Paul [Ottawa])
WEDNESDAY PM INVITED LECTURES (4:30-5:15)
Process Philosophy, the Global Ecological Crisis, and the Future of Civilization (Mudd)
Arran Gare (Swinburne University [Melbourne])
Meaning, Memory, and Memoir: Life as Construction, Constructing a Life (Butler 201)
Susan L. Nelson (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary)
The Relevance of Whitehead for Contemporary Buddhist Philosophy (Haddon)
Laszlo Forizs (Gate of Dharma Buddhist College [Budapest])
The Activity of the Quadriplegic God (Chapel)
David Pailin (University of Manchester)
WEDNESDAY PM PLENARY ADDRESS (6:20-7:00: Mudd)
Weaving Our Common Good
George Allan (Dickenson College [emeritus])
T H U R S D A Y
THURSDAY AM PLENARY ADDRESS (8:20-9:00: Mudd)
Pragmatic Pluralism
Marjorie Hewett Suchocki (Claremont School of Theology & CPS)
THURSDAY AM MEETINGS (9:15-11:15)
BUDDHISM (Cooper Board Room)
Yogacara Buddhist Doctrine of the Threefold Natures in the Light of Whitehead’s Philosophy
Ryusei Takeda (Ryukoku University)
Amida Buddha, Whitehead’s God, and the Temporal Fact
Kenneth Inada (SUNY at Buffalo [emeritus])
CHINESE CULTURE (Craig 111)
Postmodern Science and Traditional Chinese Scientific Thought
Zhong Cai (Nanjing University)
Constructive Postmodern Thought and Chinese Traditional Culture
Changrong Chen (Suzhou University Press)
EDUCATION FOR THE GOOD OF THE WORLD (Chapel)
The Call of the Good: God, the World, and ‘The Old Summary of
Educational Ideal’ Re-membered
Molly Quinn (Adelphi University)
Being Peace and Moral Education
Dale T. Snauwaert (Adelphi University)
ETHICS (Craig 106)
Whitehead and Confucius on the Aesthetics of Virtue
Nicholas Gier (University of Idaho)
Whitehead and Levinas: Ethics, Beauty, and the Other
Jonathan Strandjord (Wartburg Seminary)
EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY (Haddon Conference Center)
An Adequate God
William Hasker (Huntington College)
Process Theology and the Christian Good News: A Response to
Classical Free Will Theism
David Ray Griffin (Claremont School of Theology & CPS)
FEMINISM (Library Trever Room)
Can a Whiteheadian Framework Reconcile the Claims of Justice
and Care?
William J. Garland (Sewanee: Univ. of the South)
Some Thoughts on Feminism and Process Philosophy
Gwen Edyn Miller (Luther College [Decorah, Iowa])
JEWISH THOUGHT (Craig 110)
Abraham Heschel and Process Philosophy
Sol Tanenzapf (York University)
Toward a Reenchantment of Judaism
Sandra Lubarsky (Northern Arizona University)
MATHEMATICS (Library Small Seminar Room)
Fractal Interpretation of Whitehead’s Process and Reality
Peter Douglas (Griffith University [Brisbane])
Process and Virtual Reality: The Strengths and Limitations
of Computationalism
Peter Farleigh (Sydney; Founder of Australasian Process Association)
NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY (Mudd TV Studio)
New Age Spirituality and the Power of the Mind: A Process
Relational Perspective
Bruce Epperly (Georgetown University Campus Ministry)
Occult and Mystical Assertions of New Age and New Thought: Frontiers of Science and Medicine
Joan McKenna (Holmes Institute)
PHENOMENOLOGY & ANALYTICAL PHIL./ THOMAS (jt. sess., ABMC Seminar Rm)
On Epochal Becoming: Rosenthal on Whitehead
Lewis S. Ford (Old Dominion University [emeritus])
The Question of Being in Whitehead
Johan Siebers (University of Leiden)
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (Craig 105)
The Reification Problem and Whitehead’s Philosophy
Noel E. Boulting (NOBOSS Philosophical Society; University of Great Falls [Montana])
To Be Determined
Yutaka Tanaka (Editor of Process Thought [The Proceedings of the Japan Society for Process Studies])
PROCESS THEOLOGY (Craig 103)
An Asian Relational Theology: A Theistic Approach
Wang-shik Jang (Methodist Theol. School [Seoul])
Pannenberg, Niebuhr, and Whitehead on the Idea of Human Freedom
Jinsun Park (Ph.D. student, Claremont Graduate Univ.)
SOCIAL-POLITICAL THOUGHT (Butler 201)
The Compound Conception of Justice
Franklin I. Gamwell (University of Chicago Divinity School)
Iredell Jenkins’ Process Jurisprudence
Eugene Mayers (Cal. State University Hayward [emeritus])
TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY (Butler Student Lounge)
A Whiteheadian Interpretation of the LSD Experience, Revisited
Leonard Gibson (Burlington College & President, Holotropic Breathwork International)
Dharma, Karma, and Yoga: Whitehead as a Transpersonal Philosopher?
Jeffrey Sanders (Ph.D. student, Claremont Graduate University)
THURSDAY AM INVITED LECTURES (11:45-12:30)
Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Nature: A Process Perspective (Mudd)
Ian Barbour (Carlton College [emeritus])
Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics (Butler 201)
Steve Odin (University of Hawaii)
In Search of the Common Good in a Multicultural Society (Chapel)
Henry Young (Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary)
THURSDAY PM MEETINGS (2:00-4:00)
APPE (Haddon Conference Center)
Ongoing Discussion of Works in Progress
CHINESE CULTURE (Craig 111)
Whitehead’s Philosophy and the Tendency in Contemporary Philosophy
Baowei Zhu (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Whitehead’s Philosophy and Marx’s Dialectics
Huibin Li (Bureau of Central Compilation & Translation)
CHRISTIAN THOUGHT (Chapel)
Improvisation: A Reflection on God in the World
Ann Pederson (Augustana College [Sioux Falls])
Monotheism Beyond Logocentrism
Jonathan Strandjord (Christ Lutheran Church, Spring Green, Wisconsin [Ph.D. from Vanderbilt])
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS (Mudd TV Studio)
The Importance of Ecology and Wilderness to a Sustainable Culture: A Theistic Approach
Andrew Kerr (Divinity School, University of Chicago)
Metaphysics in Whiteheadian Environmental Ethics
Yoshitakea Goh (Japan Biblical Seminary [Tokyo])
EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY (Craig 105)
Directions for a Process Ecclesiology
Dan Ott (Ph.D. student, Claremont Grad. U.)
Divine Power and Love: An Evangelical Process Proposal
Thomas Oord (Ph.D. candidate, Claremont Grad. Univ.)
HEGEL AND WHITEHEAD (Craig 106)
Hegel, Whitehead and Lyotard: Reason and Its Other
Andre Cloots (University of Leuven at Kortrijk)
Whitehead’s Process, Hegel’s Dialectic, and Mulla Sadra’s Becoming
Ernest Wolf-Gazo (American University in Cairo)
KOREAN CULTURE (Craig 103)
The I Ching and Process Philosophy
Won Suk Chang (Ph.D. candidate, University of Hawaii)
Is God in the Process of Change? A Comparison of Process Thought with the Concept of Change Presented in the Yin-Yang Principle
Jean Hee Kim (Ph.D. student, Union Theological Sem. [NY])
NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY (Craig 110)
New Thought: Linking New Age and Process Thought
Alan Anderson (Curry College)
New Age, New thought, and Process Thought: A Psychological Perspective
Deborah G. Whitehouse (Curry College)
PHYSICS AND WHITEHEAD (Cooper Board Room)
Philosophical Implications of Modern Physics (Moderator: Tim Eastman)
Presentations: Lawrence Fagg (Catholic University [emeritus]), Joseph Rosen, Yutaka Tanaka, Ian Barbour (Carleton College [emeritus])
POLITICAL ECONOMY (Library Trever Room)
Whitehead’s Vision of Responsible Business
Thomas Regan, S.J. (Fairfield University)
A Theology for a More Just and Sustainable Economics
June Watkins (Ph.D. student, Claremont Grad. University)
PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (ABMC Seminar Room)
Selfhood is a Process
John Pickering (Warwick University [England])
The Self as Soul-Weaver
David Roy (Pastoral Psychotherapist [Bakersfield] & Editor of Soulful Psychotherapy)
SCIENCE AND RELIGION (Mudd Auditorium)
Retrieving Nature: Whitehead and the Cosmic Christ
Phillip Hefner (Lutheran School of Theology [Chicago])
Evolution & Theology: Whitehead, Teilhard, Jonas, & Polanyi
John Haught (Georgetown University)
SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF PROCESS PHILOSOPHIES (Butler 201)
Community, Process, and Praxis
George Allan (Dickenson College [emeritus]); David Hall (University of Texas at El Paso); George Caffentzis (University of Southern Maine); Lee Stuart (community organizer in the Bronx and Chiapas [Ph.D. in biology])
TECHNOLOGY (Library Small Seminar Room)
St. Prometheus: Does Technology Have a Religion?
Ton Meijknecht (Delft University)
Promethean & Neo-Luddite Philosophies of Technology: A Dualism for Process Mediation?
John Quiring (Center for Process Studies)
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF WHITEHEAD’S WRITINGS (Butler Student Lounge)
Analyzing the Growth of Process and Reality
Denis Hurtubise (Universite Saint-Paul [Ottawa])
THURSDAY PM INVITED LECTURES (4:30-5:15)
The Labor Question and the Principle of an Energetic Democracy (Mudd)
Douglas Sturm (Bucknell University [emeritus])
The Significance of Maritime East Asia in This and the Next Centuries (Butler 201)
Keiji Matsunobu (Former President of the Japan Process Society),
To Be Determined (Haddon Conference Center)
Ross Stanway (Mount Allison University [New Brunswick])
Beyond Shame: A Process Model for the Human Race (Chapel)
Thandeka (Meadville Theological School)
THURSDAY PM PLENARY ADDRESS (7:40-8:20: Mudd)
The Concept of Nature: A Meeting Point for Merleau-Ponty and Whitehead
Jan Van der Veken (University of Leuven [emeritus])
SPECIAL AESTHETICS AND THE ARTS PRESENTATION (8:30 Mudd)
Proprioception, Reflection, Recognition: The Lineaments of Form from Exile to Independence (Slide-show lecture)
Gilah Yelin Hirsch (Cal. State University Dominguez Hills)
F R I D A Y
FRIDAY AM PLENARY ADDRESS (8:20-9:00: Mudd)
Diversity, Depth, and Darkness: A Journey of the Soul
Mary Elizabeth Mullino Moore (Claremont School of Theology & CPS)
FRIDAY AM MEETINGS (9:15-11:15)
AESTHETICS AND THE ARTS (Library Trever Room)
The Snows of Yesteryear: Rationality, Chaos, and the Death of the Author
Gavin Murray (University of Kent [Canterbury])
Process Theology and Contemporary Literature: Rubbing (Differently Structured) Texts Together
Darren J. N. Middleton (Texas Christian University)
APPE (Craig 103)
Ongoing Discussion of Works in Progress
CHINESE CULTURE (Craig 105)
The Human Essence as Process
Xiaoting Liu (Philosophy, Haerbin Normal College)
What Will a Human Being Be When the World Is Universalized?
Guoquing Ji (Philosophy, Hei Longjiang University)
CHRISTIAN THOUGHT (Chapel)
Whitehead’s Reconceptualization of Creation
Lewis Ford (Old Dominion University [emeritus])
Whitehead, the Limitation on God’s Power, and Christian Theology
Thomas Hosinski (University of Portland)
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS (Cooper Board Room)
The Promise of Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism: The Alterity and Integrity of Nature
Anna Case-Winters (McCormick Seminary [Chicago])
Nature and Ethics: A Whiteheadian Approach
Hiromasa Mase (Keio University)
KOREAN CULTURE (Craig 111)
Whitehead’s ‘Creativity’ and the Korean Mind
Chang Ok Moon (Yon Sei University)
Fuzzy Logic and Korean Culture: A Process Perspective
Sang Yil Kim (Hanshin University [Osan City])
MATHEMATICS (Craig 110)
What Is a Comprehensive Mathematical Naturalism? Whitehead, Peirce, and the Emergence of Eternal Objects
Murray Code (University of Guelph [Ontario])
Whitehead, Santayana, and Abstract Objects
Angus Kerr-Lawson (University of Waterloo [Ontario])
METAPHYSICAL COSMOLOGY (Haddon Conference Room)
Atoms, Fields, and Solidarity: Options in Whiteheadian Metaphysics
Judith Jones (Fordham University; SSPP Coordinator)
The Ontology of the Past: Whitehead & Santayana
Leemon McHenry (Loyola Marymount University)
PHENOMENOLOGY AND ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY (Butler Student Lounge)
Self-Limiting Events
Clinton Combs (Ph.D. student, Claremont Grad. Univ.)
On ‘Canalization’ as the Principle of Definiteness or Limitation: Whitehead, Bergson, & Husserl
Yoshitaka Ando (Kochi University [Japan])
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION (ABMC Seminar Room)
The Irrelevance of Everlasting Life to the Problem of Death
James Keller (Wofford College)
Hartshorne’s Cosmological Argument
George Nordgulen (Eastern Kentucky University)
POLITICAL ECONOMY (Butler 201)
Political Economy and the Economization of Politics
John B. Cobb, Jr. (Center for Process Studies)
Steam and Democracy & Sprawl and Diversity: The Adventure of Ideas in Our Contemporary American Cities
Warren Copeland (Wittenberg University)
PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (Craig 106)
A Temenos Enterprise: The Jungian Psyche Considered in a Whiteheadian Ecological Ensoulment Context
Gabriele Uhlein, O.S.F. (Ph.D. from Chicago Theol. Sem.)
The Erotic Soul Yearning to Be Embraced and Jung’s Fear of ‘Other’
Barbara Keiller (U.U. Process Theology Network [San Diego])
SCIENCE AND RELIGION (Mudd TV Studio)
Faith & Reason: Relativized & Naturalized
Gregory J. Moses (Banyo Theological Seminary [Brisbane])
Human Knowing in a Sacred Cosmos
Sheri Richlin (Ph.D. cand., Calif. Inst. of Integral Studies)
SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIETY (Library Small Seminar Room)
Shifting Sociolinguistic Contexts: Introducing the Notion of Spirituality into the Workplace via a Process Thought Paradigm
Patricia T. McNaughton (Ind. Consultant in Ecological Psych.)
Ideological Dualism, Spirituality, and Process Social Philosophy
John Quiring (Center for Process Studies)
FRIDAY AM INVITED LECTURES (11:45-12:30)
To Be Determined (Mudd)
Reiner Wiehl (University of Heidelberg)
Getting to ‘No’ in Religious Dialogue
Sandra Lubarsky (Northern Arizona University) (Haddon Conf. Ctr.)
Revisiting the Humanist-Theist Debate: Implications for the Common Good
William R. Jones (Florida State University) (Chapel)
FRIDAY PM MEETINGS (2:00-4:00)
BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS EAST & WEST (Craig 103)
Japanese Management: Its Possibilities and Limits
Hisashi Shimada (Ryukoku University)
Environment-Oriented Management and Philosophical, Ethical Innovation
Teruso Taniguchi (St. Andrew’s University)
CHINESE CULTURE (Craig 105)
Ecological Consciousness in Traditional Chinese Aesthetics
Meijun Fan (Philosophy, Beijing Normal University)
Some Difficulties in the Translation of The Reenchantment of Science
JiFang Ma (Soc. Sci. Abroad, Chinese Acad. of Soc. Sciences)
EDUCATION FOR THE GOOD OF THE WORLD (Mudd TV Studio)
Education for the Good of the World: Implications of Spiritual Psychology
Robert London (Cal. State University San Bernadino)
Spirituality and Education: A Postmodern Perspective
Aostre N. Johnson (St. Michael’s College [Vermont])
ETHICS (Craig 110)
What is Whitehead’s Highest Good?
William Garland (Sewanee: The University of the South)
The Social Ethic of Alfred North Whitehead
John Woell (Ph. D. student, Claremont Grad. University)
EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY (Haddon Conference Center)
Openness & Process Theology: Respecting the Integrity of Two Views
Nancy Howell (Saint Paul School of Theology)
Confessional Communities and Public World Views: A Case Study
David Wheeler (Central Baptist Theological Seminary)
FEMINISM (Library Trever Room)
Transformative Figurations: Re-Visioning Subjectivity from Postmodern Feminist & Process Perspectives & the ‘Problem’ of Sacred Place
Anne Daniell (Ph.D. student, Drew Univ. Theol. School)
Work in Progress
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki and Mary Elizabeth Moore (Claremont School of Theology)
HERMENEUTICS (Library Small Seminar Room)
What is a Commentary for Today?
William Beardslee and Others on the Chalice Press Series
METAPHYSICAL COSMOLOGY (Butler 201)
Process Philosophy and Anthropic Cosmology
George W. Shields (Kentucky State University)
Articulating Atomicity
Lewis S. Ford (Old Dominion University [emeritus])
PHENOMENOLOGY AND ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY (ABMC Seminar Room)
Whitehead’s Process-Organic Philosophy as Scientific Metaphysics
Franz Riffert (University of Salzburg)
Realism Without (Classical) Empiricism: Wittgenstein and Whitehead
Randy Ramal (Ph.D. student, Claremont Graduate University)
PHILOSOPHY OF CIVILIZATION (Mudd Auditorium)
Process Philosophy and Global Civilization
Arran Gare (Swinburne University [Melbourne])
Civilization and Globalization: Dewey, Whitehead, and Confucius
David Hall (University of Texas at El Paso)
ROMAN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY (Chapel)
Process, Evolution, and Original Sin
Jerry Korsmeyer (retired physicist, budding theologian)
On the Unique Origin of Revelation, Religious Intuition, and Theology in Reconstructed Whiteheadian Process Theology
Roland Faber (University of Vienna)
SCIENCE AND RELIGION (Craig 111))
Of Artichokes & Onions: Science, Religion, Philosophy, and the Churches
James Miller (AAAS [American Assn. for the Advancement of Science] Program of Dialogue Between Science & Religion)
Whitehead and Time
Lawrence Fagg (Catholic University [emeritus])
SEXUALITY (Craig 106)
Unconforming Becomings: The Significance of A. N. Whitehead’s ‘Novelty’ and Judith Butler’s ‘Subversion’ for the Repetitions of Lesbian Identity
Christina K. Hutchins (Ph.D. candidate, Graduate Theological Union [Berkeley])
God’s Good Gift to All Persons: Sacred Sex, Sacramental Sexuality
Frederick B. Brabson (Student, Claremont School of Theology)
SYSTEMS THEORY (Butler Student Lounge)
The Quantum Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead
Mark Germine (Psychoscience, Loma Linda [Calif.])
Systems and Actual Entities: A Theory Reconstruction
Shigeyuki Itow (School of Management, Kyushu Sangyo U.)
TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY (Cooper Board Room)
Mystical Experiences in a Whiteheadian Universe
John Buchanan (Independent Scholar [Ph.D. Emory University])
FRIDAY PM INVITED LECTURES (4:30-5:15)
The Freedom We Ourselves Are (Mudd)
Franklin I. Gamwell (University of Chicago)
To Be Determined (Butler 201)
Dmitri Spivak (Institute of Brain Science [St. Petersburg])
Cosmology and Theology of Change: Yijing and Whitehead (Haddon)
Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii)
Education as an Anti-Utopian Enterprise: A Whiteheadian Alternative to Academic Disciplines (Chapel)
Marcus P. Ford (Northern Arizona University)
FRIDAY PM PLENARY ADDRESS (6:20-7:00: Mudd)
Environmental Ethics in Process Thought
L. Charles Birch (Sydney University [emeritus])
S A T U R D A Y
SATURDAY AM PLENARY ADDRESS (8:20-9:00: Mudd)
Whitehead’s Philosophy and Its Significance in the Contemporary World
Seisaku Yamamoto (Kyoto University)
SATURDAY AM MEETINGS (9:15-11:15)
BUDDHISM (Haddon Conference Center)
Process Divinity and the Lotus Sutra
Gene Reeves (University of Tsukuba [retired])
Eternal Objects and the Logic of Species: Whitehead and Tanabe
Makoto Ozaki (Sanyo Gakuen University)
CHRISTIAN THOUGHT (Craig 103)
Barth’s Theology and Whitehead’s Philosophy
Sueo Oshima (Reitaku University [Japan])
A Process Reading of Schleiermacher’s Doctrine of Election
Donna Bowman (Ph.D. student, University of Virginia)
EDUCATION FOR THE COMMON GOOD (Craig 111)
Ceaselessly Shattering Indifference: An Education for the Good of the World
Mary Poplin (Claremont Graduate University)
Toward a Dialogal Process Philosophy of Education for the Common Good
Bernard Rich (Pelham Child Development Center [The Bronx])
ETHICS (Library Small Seminar Room)
Whitehead’s Theory of Moral Significance
Elizabethe Seagers McRae (St. Louis University)
Whitehead and the ‘Unitary Effect’: Connecting Metaphysics and Ethics
Derek Malone-France (Ph.D. student, Claremont Grad. University)
HERMENEUTICS (Library Trever Room)
Beyond the Impasse: The Promise of a Process Hermeneutic
Ronald Farmer (Chapman University)
A Process Hermeneutic for the Parish
George Thompson (Center for Church Life, Chicago Theological Seminary)
MATHEMATICS (Craig 110)
Eternal Objects at Sea
Granville Henry & Robert Valenza (Claremont McKenna College)
PHENOMENOLOGY AND ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY (Cooper Board Room)
Whitehead and the Critique of the Propositional Function
James Bradley (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
On the Metaphysical Ground for Whitehead’s Indicative Feeling
Hiroshi Endo (Wasada University [Japan])
PHILOSOPHY OF CIVILIZATION / TECHNOLOGY (Mudd Auditorium)
Whitehead, Hartshorne, and Recent Philosophies of Technology
George Shields (Philosophy, Kentucky State U.)
Three Conceptions of Power: A Peircian Lesson for Process Philosophy?
Noel E. Boulting (NOBOSS Philosophical Society; University of Great Falls [Montana])
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION (Craig 106)
The Truth of Religious Experience
Alan Deffenderfer (Ph.D. student, Claremont Grad. University)
Interpersonal Trust as an Actual Occasion in Concrescence: Applications of a Process Theory Derived from Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism
Mark Dibben (University of Aberdeen) and Richard Harrison (University of Ulster)
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (Butler 201)
Ontology & Tension of Process Thought: A Proposal of Postmodern Order
Ignacio Izuzquiza (University of Zaragoza [Spain])
The Relevance of Whitehead for Philosophy of Science in Hungary
Laszlo Forizs (Gate of Dharma Buddhist College [Budapest])
PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (Craig 105)
Relationships and Forgiveness: A Process Perspective
Robert Brizee (Brizee & Brizee Counseling [Wenatchee, WA])
Why Process Thought is Relevant: A Psychiatrist’s Perspective
Adam Blatner (Integrated Mental Health Services [Austin])
SCIENCE AND RELIGION (Chapel)
Whitehead, Complexity Theory, and God’s Action in the Universe
Thomas Hosinski (University of Portland)
Support for Process Theology from the World
John Jungerman (Univ. of Calif. at Davis [emeritus])
SOCIAL-POLITICAL THOUGHT (ABMC Seminar Room)
A Relational, Non-Essentialist Nationalism: A Self-Critical Patriotism
Leslie A. Muray (Lansing Community College)
Constructing a Whiteheadian Model for Public Philosophy
John Woell (Ph.D. student, Claremont Graduate University)
SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIETY (Mudd TV Studio)
Society’s Communication Problem on the Subject of Process
Claire G. Walker (Academy of Religion & Psychical Research)
A Common Kin-dom Come: Jungian ‘Soul Work’ in a Whiteheadian Process Context
Gabriele Uhlein, O.S.F. (Ph.D. Chicago Theological Sem.)
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF WHITEHEAD’S WRITINGS (Butler Student Lounge)
Some Recent Advances in Compositional Analysis
Lewis S. Ford (Old Dominion University [emeritus])
SATURDAY AM INVITED LECTURES (11:45-12:30)
The Borders of Chaos: On Honoring the Process and Feminist Preconditional (Mudd)
Catherine Keller (Drew University: The Theological School)
The Academy, Forms of Togetherness, and A Collegial Ethic (Haddon)
John B. Bennett (Quinnipiac College [Connecticut])
Creative Solidarity and the Common Good
Jorge Nobo (Washburn University [Topeka]) (Chapel)
SATURDAY PM MEETINGS (2:00-4:00)
AESTHETICS AND THE ARTS (Library Trever Room [2:00-3:00])
A Place and a Moment: One Poem About Becoming
Christina K. Hutchins (Ph.D. cand., Grad. Theol. Union [Berk.])
APPE (Haddon Conference Center)
Ongoing Discussion of Works in Progress
CHINESE CULTURE (Craig 103)
To Be Determined
Chunfeng Feng (China Social Sciences Press)
To Be Determined
Yunyun Luo (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
CHRISTIAN THOUGHT / EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHY (Chapel)
The Art of Power Is to Make Free: A Whiteheadian Contribution to Kierkegaard’s Relational Theology
Paul Sponheim (Luther Seminary [St. Paul])
The Desire to be God: Berdyaev’s Panentheist Critique of Sartre’s Atheology
James M. McLachlan (Western Carolina Univ. [Cullowhee, NC])
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS (Craig 105)
Enhancing Your Ecological Self: Considerations of Kinship With Nature
Patricia T. McNaughton (Consultant in Ecological Psychology)
‘The Theater and Instrument of His Acts’: Intrinsic vs. Instrumental Value in the Animal Liberation and Environmental Movements
Antonia Gorman (Ph.D. student, Drew Univ. Theol. School)
EDUCATION FOR THE GOOD OF THE WORLD (Mudd TV Studio)
The Knowledge Most Worth Knowing? The Epigenetic Learning Hierarchy: A Holistic-Process Model for Refashioning Curricula and Teaching
Hillel A. Schiller (Educ. Consultant/Learning Therapist)
Towards Integrality: Gebserian Reflections on Education and Consciousness
Bernard Neville (LaTrobe University [Bundoora, Australia])
KOREAN CULTURE (Craig 111)
Jesus, the Early Church, and Korean-Americans on the Way Along the Borderlands
Paul Hertig (United Theological Seminary [Dayton])
Chei-yong-sang Christology: Reformulated in a Whiteheadian Framework
Sung Do Kang (Center for Pacific & Asian American Ministry [Claremont])
LIBERATION-POLITICAL THEOLOGY / SOCIAL-POLITICAL THOUGHT (Butler 201)
A Liberal Process View of the Common Good
Daniel Dombrowski (Seattle University)
Pacifism and Process
Lonnie Valentine (Earlham School of Religion)
METAPHYSICAL COSMOLOGY / PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIOLOGY (Craig 110)
Solidarity and Sociality: Toward an Explicitly Socio-Ontological Metaphysics
Joseph Bracken, S.J. (Xavier University) & Jorge Nobo (Washburn University [Topeka])
Heuristic of the Pancreativism of Whitehead’s Harvard Epoch
Michel Weber (Research fellow, University of Louvain)
PHILOSOPHY OF CIVILIZATION (Butler Student Lounge)
Postmodern Value Landscapes
James Norwine (Texas A & M at Kingsville)
Eros and Sympathy
Maaike Engelen (Center for Ethics, Univ. of Nijmegen)
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION (Mudd Auditorium)
Images of God and Images of the Person: Five Forms of False Human Self-Understanding
David Pailin (University of Manchester)
Creation & Concrescence
Lewis S. Ford (Old Dominion University [emeritus])
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (ABMC Seminar Room)
Spacetime and Becoming: How to Overcome the Contradiction between Relativity and the Passage of Time
Niels Viggo Hansen (University of Aarhus [Denmark])
Laws of Nature, Explanation, and the Problem of Induction: A Whiteheadian Proposal
Richard Amesbury (Ph.D. student, Claremont Grad. University)
PROCESS AND FAITH (Cooper Board Room)
Discussion of In God’s Presence: Theological Reflections on Prayer
Marjorie Suchocki (Claremont School of Theology & CPS)
Hands-On Creative Workshop on Innovative Ways to Express the Process Perspective
Judith Boice Casanova (Process and Faith)
SEXUALITY (Library Trever Rm. [3:00, following AESTHETICS])
Marriage After Patriarchy? Toward a Theology of Body and Soul for the Common Good of Partners
Kathlyn A. Breazeale (Immaculate Heart College)
SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIETY (Library Small Seminar Room)
Developing the Courage to Be a Citizen
Linda Handelman (Chaffey College [California])
Trinidad’s Carnival: An Ecology of Spirit
Barbara Keiller (San Diego; U.U. Proc. Theol. Network)
SYSTEMS THEORY (Craig 106)
Will Robots Sin?
Stanley Klein (Optometry, Univ. of California at Berkeley)
Patterned Process: The Neutral Ground for Matter-Consciousness Dual Aspect?
Jose-Luis Diaz (Center of Neurobiology, Queretaro [Mexico])
SATURDAY PM INVITED LECTURES (4:30-5:15)
The Process Paradigm, Rites of Passage, and Spiritual Quests (Mudd)
Nancy Frankenberry (Dartmouth College)
A New Human Science Based on Acupunctural Epistemology: A Whiteheadian Vision (Haddon)
Young-Oak Kim (M.D. and professor of philosophy [Seoul])
Relational Proxies: The Trinity as a Social Model (Chapel)
James E. Will (Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary)
AFTERDINNER ADDRESS
Whitehead, World Religions, and Consumerism
Jay McDaniel (Hendrix College [Arkansas])
SUNDAY AM PLENARY ADDRESSES (8:20-9:45: Mudd)
Process Thought and the Common Good: A ‘Process Historical’ Approach
William Dean (Iliff School of Theology [Denver])
The Center for Process Studies and the Common Good
John B. Cobb, Jr. (Center for Process Studies)
FINAL DISCUSSION OF CONFERENCE THEME (10:45-12:00)
Participants A-C: Mudd
Participants D-F: Butler 201
Participants G-I: Haddon
Participants J-L: Chapel
Participants M-N: 103
Participants O-P: 105
Participants Q-R: 106
Participants S-T: 110
Participants U-W: 111
Participants X-Z: ABMC