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The Center for Process Studies (CPS) is a faculty center of Claremont Lincoln University, in association with Claremont School of Theology, and the Department of Religion at 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.
CPS was founded in 1973 by John B. Cobb, Jr. and David Ray Griffin to encourage exploration of the relevance of process thought to many fields of reflection and action. As a faculty center of Claremont Lincoln University, in association with the Claremont School of Theology and the Department of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, CPS seeks to promote a new way of thinking based on the work of philosophers Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) through seminars, conferences, publications, and an extensive library.
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The Center is located on the campus of Claremont School of Theology, in the lower level of Seeley G. Mudd Building (also known as Mudd Theater).
The Center for Process Studies
1325 North College Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 621-5330
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