multimedia files...
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.
Audio Files (mp3 / podcast format)
Judaism and Process Theology
by Rabbi Bradley Shavit ArtsonRabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, CA meets with the study body twice a month to teach text and have conversations about Jewish life. He is interested in exploring connectins between Jewish Thought and Process Theology. Check here for these and other podcasts from the prolific Rabbi Artson.
by Spyridon KoutroufinisThis presenation given on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at Albrecht Auditorium on the campus of Claremont Graduate University.
[stream entire program (95min)] [download main presentation (MP3 | 69min | 48Mb)] [download Q & A (MP3 | 43min | 30Mb)]
by Joseph Bracken, with a response from Philip ClaytonJoseph Bracken gave a presenation on the topic of "emergence" on May 1, 2008. Philip Clayton provided a critical response, and their exchange was followed by a question and answer session. The seminar was held on Thursday, May 1, 2008 at the Haddon Conference Room on the campus of Claremont School of Theology.
download Bracken (MP3 | 27min | 25Mb) | download Clayton (MP3 | 20min | 19Mb) | dowload rejoinders & Q&A (MP3 | 48min | 45Mb)
Entire Program (95min)
by Rabbi Bradley ArtsonThis lecture was delivered on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at the Haddon Conference Room on the campus of Claremont School of Theology.
[stream entire program] [download main presentation] (MP3 | 45min | 41Mb)] [download Q & A MP3] (MP3 | 45min | 41Mb)
by John B. Cobb, Jr.This lecture was delivered on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at the Mudd Theatre on the campus of Claremont School of Theology.
[stream entire program] [download main presentation (MP3 | 33Mb)] [download Q & A (MP3 | 30Mb)]
by Schubert Ogden & David TracyThis recording, made in 1972, includes a lecture by Schubert Ogden (approx. 30 min.), a brief question and answer session (approx. 7 min.), and an extended response to Ogden's comments by David Tracy (approx. 23 min.).
[stream entire program] [download Ogden (MP3 | 9Mb)] [download Q & A (MP3 | 3Mb)] [download Tracy (MP3 | 11Mb)]
by Charles HartshorneThis audiotape recording features Charles Hartshorne lecturing on the nature of perception and other topics. Date unknown. Approximately 45 minutes.
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by David Ray GriffinIn 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.
[stream entire program] [download part 1 (MP3 | 37Mb)] [download part 2 (MP3 | 42Mb)]
by John B. Cobb, Jr. and Charles HartshorneIn 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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by John B. Cobb, Jr. and Mary Ellen KilsbyThese 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.
[stream entire program] [download part 1 (MP3 | 31Mb)] [download part 2 (MP3 | 33Mb) [download part 3 (MP3 | 26Mb)]
by John B. Cobb, Jr. and David BohmIn 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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by Mary Elizabeth MooreIn 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.
[stream entire program ] [download part 1 (MP3 | 41Mb)] [download part 2 (MP3 | 41Mb)] [download part 3 (MP3 | 23Mb)]
by Charles HartshorneThis 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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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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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.
[stream entire program] [download part 1 (MP3 | 18Mb)] [download part 2 (MP3 | 36Mb)]
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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by Michael EppersonIn this CPS seminar from 2003, Michael Epperson relates process metaphysics to the decoherence model of quantum mechanics. Approximately 55 minutes.
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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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by David Ray GriffinThis lecture, given on October 5, 2006, provides an introduction to the relationship between process thought and cosmology, and the potential role or influence that the former should have in the latter.
[Stream] [download] (MP3 | 21Mb | 66min)