CPS Publications
Process Studies is a scholarly peer-reviewed, and refereed academic, journal of the Center for Process Studies. Issues are published twice a year. It is the leading international journal in its field, and is dedicated to the study of the thought and wide-ranging implications of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and his intellectual associates, most notably Charles E. Hartshorne (1897-2000), and others like William James (1842-1910), Charles Sanders Pierce (1839-1914) and Henri Bergson (1859-1941).
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Process Studies Supplements (PSS) is a scholarly journal published in an electronic format. It is intended to make available to scholars long articles or short monographs that are too large for the journal Process Studies. Material submitted to PSS is peer reviewed in the traditional scholarly fashion, but the mode of delivery is in electronic form.
Process Perspectives was the newsmagazine of the Center for Process Studies. It contains process-related articles, summaries of recent events, and news from around the world. The final issue, volume 44, was released fall 2023.
Creative Transformation was a magazine published by the Process & Faith program of the Center for Process Studies from 1991 to 2012.
Process Studies
(ISSN: 0360-6503) is a scholarly peer-reviewed, and refereed academic, journal of the Center for Process Studies. Issues are published twice a year. It is the leading international journal in its field, and is dedicated to the study of the thought and wide-ranging implications of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and his intellectual associates, most notably Charles E. Hartshorne (1897-2000), and others like William James (1842-1910), Charles Sanders Pierce (1839-1914) and Henri Bergson (1859-1941). The mandate of Process Studies, in sum, is to explore Whiteheadian-Hartshornean process thought at an advanced level and as it appears in related philosophies and theologies (as noted above), applying the Whiteheadian-Hartshornean conceptuality to a wide range of other fields: Aesthetics, Biology, Cosmology, Economics, Education Theory, Ethics, History of Religions, Literary Criticism, Mathematics, Political Thought, Psychology, Physics and other Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, Sociology, Psychology, Christian Theology, Eastern Religions, and etc. Articles and Special focus sections have been published in all of these areas.
Hartshorne Lifetime Membership
One of the benefits of becoming a Hartshorne Lifetime Member is a lifetime subscription to Process Studies journal—no more renewal notices! The lifetime subscription is valued at $500. If you file a U.S. tax return and you itemize your income tax deductions, your Hartshorne Lifetime Membership gift may entitle you to claim a charitable income tax deduction for $1000.00 (USD), that is, the amount of the gift less the value of the lifetime subscription.
Statistical Information
ISSN: 0360-6503
Two issues / year
Working language is English; academic references to other languages on occasion
Subject categories: 1) Philosophy; 2) Theology; 3) Interdisciplinary
CPS Contact: Wm. Andrew Schwartz
Average length: 320-360 pages
Refereed
Approximate Circulation: 1000
Indexes in Vol. 15.4 and Vol. 20.4
Agency Discount of 10%
Claims should be made within 12 months. We do not provide refunds once the agent or subscriber check has been processed.
Editor: Daniel A. Dombrowski, Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University; Seattle, WA 98122
Editor’s web page
Style guidelines for submissions: PS Style Guidelines
Process Studies Supplements
Process Studies Supplements (PSS) is a scholarly journal published in an electronic format. It is intended to make available to scholars long articles or short monographs that are too large for the journal Process Studies. Material submitted to PSS is peer reviewed in the traditional scholarly fashion, but the mode of delivery is in electronic form. Authors should send articles (whether hard copy or a disk version in Windows format) to the Editor, Daniel A. Dombrowski, Philosophy Department, Seattle University, Seattle, WA 98122. E-mail: ddombrow@seattleu.edu.
- How to cite these documents properly when you quote them in your work.
- Process Studies and PSS style guide.
Issue 27 (2022)
Issue 26 (2022)
Issue 25 (2018)
Issue 24 (2017)
- Jeroen B. J. Van Dijk
“Process Physics, Time, and Consciousness: Nature as an Internally Meaningful, Habit Establishing Process”
Issue 23 (2016)
Issue 22 (2016)
Issue 21 (2015)
- Andrew Kirkpatrick
“Chaos, Indifference, and the Metaphysics of Absurdity: The Ethical Challenges Posed by Gare’s Process Thought”
Issue 20 (2015)
- Richard Mattessich and Giuseppe Galassi
“On the Interdependence of Basic Concepts: Substance and Space, Time and Process, and Consciousness”
Issue 19 (2014)
Issue 18 (2013)
- Bernard M. Loomer
“The Size of the Everlasting God”
Issue 17 (2011)
- Ronald Preston Phipps
“The Background and Historic Significance of Alfred North Whitehead’s Letter to his Personal Assistant Henry S. Leonard: The Relation between Science and Philosophy”
Issue 16 (2010)
- Jan B.F.N. Engberts
“The Natural Sciences, Classical Chinese Philosophy, Process Thinking, and Brain Lateralization”
Issue 15 (2010)
- Ronny Desmet
“On the Need to Interpret General Relativity”
Issue 14 (2009)
Issue 13 (2009)
Issue 12 (2008)
- Adam C. Scarfe, Ph.D., M.Ed.
“Overcoming Anthropocentric Humanism and Radical Anti-Humanism: Contours of the Constructive Postmodernist Environmental Epistemology”
Issue 11 (2007)
Issue 10 (2007)
Note: This issue is a joint publication of PSS and the Whitehead Research Project (WRP). Click here to view the notes on the WRP website.
- Edwin L. Marvin, introduction and index by Roselyn Schmitt, forward by Lewis Ford
Notes from “The Philosophy of Science” lectures by Alfred North Whitehead at Harvard University (1927-28)
Issue 9 (2006)
Issue 8 (2005)
- John D. Gilroy, Jr.
“Neuro Wine In Old Vessels: A Critique Of D’Aquili And Newberg”
Issue 7 (2004)
- Lewis S. Ford
“The Datum from Which Concrescence Flows: Whitehead’s First Analysis of Becoming”
Issue 6 (2004)
- Timothy E. Eastman and Hank Keeton, editors
“Resource Guide for Physics and Whitehead” - Related Documents: “A Generalized Whiteheadian Theory of Gravity: the Kerr Solution” by Robert John Russell and Christoph Wassermann
Issue 5 (2003)
- Reginald T. Cahill
“Process Physics”
Issue 4 (2003)
- Adam Scarfe
“Whitehead’s Theory of Prehensions as Inclusive of, and Conducive to a Philosophy of Education”
Issue 3 (2003)
- Chris van Haeften
“Atomicity and Extension”
Issues 1-2 (1999)
- Lewis S. Ford
“The Growth of Whitehead’s Theism” - Lewis S. Ford
“Locating Atomicity”
Process Perspectives
Process Perspectives is the biannual newsmagazine of the Center for Process Studies. It is published online in January and July and contains process-related articles, summaries of recent events, and news from around the world. Yearly print subscriptions are available for $50. To subscribe or contribute an article or news update, please contact news@ctr4process.org.
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Creative Transformation
Creative Transformation was a biannual magazine of the Process and Faith program of the Center for Process Studies.