NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Metaphysics and the Matter with Things was a well spring of humanity. Anchored by the work of psychiatrist and literary scholar Dr. Iain McGilchrist, the conference took its namesake from his recently published two volume set, The Matter with Things. McGilchrist’s masterwork presents a compelling case for what he terms “the hemisphere hypothesis” by demonstrating with exhaustive evidence the phenomenological distinctions between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
- Kevin Dowling
- Conference, Report
Joseph A. Bracken, S. J. (March 22, 1930 – April 13, 2024), was a distinguished figure in the world of theology and philosophy and a significant and beloved figure in the process community. His life and career have been marked by a profound commitment to the pursuit of knowledge and the synthesis of complex ideas, carefully negotiating faithfulness to tradition and the novelties of our contemporary situation.
- Marc Pugliese
- General Announcement
Experts from every discipline interested in exploring the many complex social and ethical questions
raised by space exploration and the search for life on other planets are invited to attend the first joint
meeting of the European Astrobiology Institute and the Society for Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology.
- Kelly C. Smith
- Call for Papers
The Journal of Consciousness Studies plans to publish a special issue to mark the fortieth anniversary of David Bohm’s Wholeness and the Implicate Order.
- John Pickering
- Call for Papers
The film Ignatius: The God Seeker is now available in four language versions which were independently produced with experts from
the different traditions: English, Italian, Spanish, and German. It was produced in 2023 under the
direction of Fr. Christof Wolf SJ and Siegmar Warnecke at Loyola Productions Munich.
- Godehard Brüntrup
- General Announcement
Veronika Krajíčková is working on a proposal for the book Understanding Whitehead, Understanding Modernism which would be published under the Bloomsbury series Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism. If you are working in the field of Whitehead and art/aesthetics/literature with the focus on modernism and you might be interested in contributing to this volume!
- Veronika Krajíčková
- Call for Papers
I am 98, and for that age, my faculties are quite good. While I still can, I am reviewing my “legacy.” It is mixed up with the legacies of many others in the process movement. I rejoice not only that all of the process organizations are engaged in important activities with excellent leadership and genuine sensitivity to the context in which they are acting, but also that they support each other when that is needed. There really is a process community, and I am only one contributor among many.
- John B. Cobb, Jr.
- General Announcement
Drops and Buds, an electronic journal dedicated to the exploration and application of Stanislav and Christina Grof's work, transpersonal breathwork, and the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, is currently accepting submissions.
- Ronit LeMon
- Call for Papers
Last month, the Center for Process Studies and the Center for Christogenesis collaborated to put on a conference exploring the intersections of the work of process philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and noospheric thinker Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The conference, featuring fifteen premiere scholars with expertise in Whitehead, Teilhard or both, sought to uncover points of contact and contrast between these two relational, evolutionary thinkers.
- Jared Morningstar
- Conference
The American Philosophical Association Pacific Executive Committee has invited the SSPP to participate, as an affiliated group, in the program of its next annual meeting, March 20-23, 2024 in Portland, OR at the Hilton Portland. This call is for papers addressing any topic in process thought.
- Olav Bryant Smith
- Call for Papers