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What is Process Theology?
by Schubert Ogden & David Tracy

This recording includes a lecture by Schubert Ogden, a brief question and answer session, and an extended response to Ogden's comments by David Tracy.

Appearance, Reality, Mind
by Charles Hartshorne

This audiotape recording features Charles Hartshorne lecturing on the nature of perception and other topics. Date unknown.

Parapsychology and Whitehead's Philosophy
by David Ray Griffin

In this recording 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.

Interview of Charles Hartshorne
by John B. Cobb, Jr. and Charles Hartshorne

In this recording 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.

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.

Interview of David Bohm
by John B. Cobb, Jr. and David Bohm

In this recording 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.

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."

God as Composer-Director, Enjoyer, and, in a Sense, Player of the Cosmic Drama
by Charles Hartshorne

This presentation by Charles Hartshorne contains Hartshorne's theories on the nature of God and why God needs the world. The lecture is followed by audience discussion. (This lecture was made available by a gift from Don Viney)

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. Primary speakers are Gaylord Nelson,Herman Daly, John B. Cobb, Jr., and Martin Evers.

Higher Education and the Common Good
by John B. Cobb, Jr.

John B. Cobb, Jr. offers a critique of the higher education system in the United States from the holistic perspective of process thought.

Process Thought and its Applications
by John B. Cobb, Jr.

In this CPS seminar 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.

The Mechanics of Concrescence
by Michael Epperson

In this CPS seminar Michael Epperson relates process metaphysics to the decoherence model of quantum mechanics.

Process Theology: An Introductory Introduction
by John  B. Cobb, Jr.

In this seminar John 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.

An Introduction to Process Cosmology
by David Ray Griffin

This lecture 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.