The Center for Process Studies maintains a small but growing digital library of multimedia presentations. Most of these recordings are digital transcriptions of archived analog sources. Varying levels of deterioration have had a negative effect on some of the files' sound quality. If you need a free mp3 player, try WinAmp or XMPlay.
Appearance,
Reality, Mind
by Charles Hartshorne
This audiotape recording
features Charles Hartshorne lecturing on the nature of perception and
other topics. Date unknown. Approximately 45 minutes.
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Parapsychology and Whitehead's Philosophy
by David Ray Griffin
In this recording made in
the March of 1982, David Ray Griffin explores the degree to which Whiteheadian philosophy's engagement with science relates to the parapsychological phenomena of psychokinesis, personal levitation, materialization, precognition, ESP, and other topics. Each part is approximately 45 minutes.
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Interview
of Charles Hartshorne
by John B. Cobb, Jr. and Charles Hartshorne
In this recording made in
the Fall of 1983, John B. Cobb, Jr. interviews Charles Hartshorne, who
also takes questions from an audience. Topics include Hartshorne's
views on materialism and psychicalism, the nature of God, the
possibility of personal immortality, contributionism, ecology, and the
history of philosophy. Date: 1983. Approximately 1 hour.
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Faith: A Relational Vision
by John B. Cobb, Jr. and Mary Ellen Kilsby
These recordings feature
John B. Cobb, Jr. explaining what it means to view the world from a
"process perspective." These recordings were intended for an
Adult Sunday School class, and consist of alternating lectures and
interviews / explanations with Mary Ellen Kilsby. Topics include
Christian doctrine, the philosophical underpinnings of process
theology, the nature of the self, and the nature of God. Date: 1984.
Approximately 35 minutes.
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Interview
of David Bohm
by John B. Cobb, Jr. and David Bohm
In this recording made in
the 1984, John B. Cobb, Jr. interviews renowned theoretical physicist David Bohm about his role in the radical developments in 20th century physics, and his book Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Approximately 20 minutes.
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The Person in Process
by Mary Elizabeth Moore
In this recording made sometime during the 1980's, Mary Elizabeth Moore discusses the nature of the human person in a process perspective. Her remarks are given in the context of religious education. Moore searches for a "new model of the human person to undergird a new model of Christian religious education." Approximately 120 minutes.
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God as Composer-Director, Enjoyer, and, in a Sense, Player of the Cosmic Drama
by Charles Hartshorne
This presentation by Charles Hartshorne, made in April 1987 at Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma, contains Hartshorne's theories on the nature of God and why God needs the world. The lecture is followed by audience discussion. Approx 75 minutes. (This lecture was made available by a gift from Don Viney)
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Introduction to Ecological Economics
by Gaylord Nelson, Herman Daly, and John B. Cobb, Jr.
This recording was edited together from the proceedings of a conference on Ecological Economics held in Madison, Wisconsin in 1991. Primary speakers are Gaylord Nelson,Herman Daly, John B. Cobb, Jr., and Martin Evers . Approximately 45 minutes.
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Higher Education and the Common Good
by John B. Cobb, Jr.
Recorded in April 1996, John B. Cobb, Jr. offers a critique of the higher education system in the United States from the holistic perspective of process thought. Part 1 is approx. 20 minutes. Part 2 is approx. 40 minutes.
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Process
Thought and its Applications
by John B. Cobb,
Jr.
In this CPS seminar from January 2001, John B. Cobb, Jr. places process thought in its historical and philosophical context, introduces the basic doctrines of Whiteheadian philosophy, and some of its apllications to other areas, including quantum physics, evolution, the mind-body problem, and economics. Approximately 55 minutes.
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The Mechanics of Concrescence
by Michael Epperson
In this CPS seminar from 2003, Michael Epperson relates process metaphysics to the decoherence model of quantum mechanics. Approximately 55 minutes.
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Process
Theology: An Introductory Introduction
by John B. Cobb,
Jr.
Recorded on September 14, 2004, this seminar given by
Cobb describes the basic doctrines of process theology. Although process
theology is normally considered philosophical theology, the highly
technical nature of the underlying metaphysics is frequently
discouraging to the non-specialist. Cobb circumvents this problem by
describing process theology in Biblical terms. Approximately 50
minutes.
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