Center for Process Studies

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The Center for Process Studies was founded in 1973 by John B. Cobb and David Ray Griffin to encourage exploration of the relevance of process thought to many fields of reflection and action. As a faculty center of Claremont School of Theology in association with Claremont Graduate University, and through seminars, conferences, publications and the library, CPS seeks to promote new ways of thinking based on the work of philosophers Alfred North Whitehead, and Charles Hartshorne, and others in the process tradition.

CPS seeks to promote the common good by means of the relational approach found in process thought. Process thought helps to harmonize moral, aesthetic, and religious intuitions with scientific insights, and grounds discussion between Eastern and Western religious and cultural traditions. It seeks to offer an approach to the social, political, and economic order that brings issues of human justice together with a concern for ecology. Its range of interests also includes scientific, philosophical, multicultural, feminist, interreligious, political, and economic concerns; with a strong focus on ecology and sustainability.[1]

CPS leadership currently includes Executive Director, Wm. Andrew Schwartz, three Faculty Co-Directors, Philip Clayton, Monica Coleman, Roland Faber, and three Emerita Faculty Co-Directors, John B. Cobb, David Ray Griffin, and Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki.[2]

  1. ^ "The Center for Process Studies: About the Center for Process Studies". Archived from the original on January 11, 2010. Retrieved December 14, 2009.
  2. ^ "The Center for Process Studies: CPS Co-Directors". Archived from the original on May 24, 2012. Retrieved June 28, 2012.