Upcoming SSPP Meetings

• Annual Meeting - APA Eastern Division
• APA Pacific Division
• APA Central Division
• Metaphysical Society of America
• Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
• 7th International Whitehead Conference (Bangalore, India)
• Joint Conference with the Whitehead Research Project

Past Meetings

• "Beyond Metaphysics: Transcontinental Explorations in Whitehead's Late Thought"
  (in conjunction with the Whitehead Research Project)
  December 4-6, 2008 Claremont, CA
  • Conference website
     
• APA Eastern  Division Meeting
  December 27-30, 2008  Philadelphia, PA - Marriott Hotel (APA Website)
  • Chair:
  • Speakers:
    • James Marsh (Fordham University)
      "Process Philosophy: Problems and Prospects"
    • Anne Pomeroy (Richard Stockton College)
      "Process Philosophy and Social Transformation"
       
• 7th International Whitehead Conference
  January 5-9, 2009 Bangalore, India (http://www.whitehead-bangalore.in/)
  Call for papers
   
• Metaphysical Society of America
  March 13-14, 2009 Atlanta, GA - Emory University (MSA Website)
  • Speaker: Jude Jones (Fordham University)
     
• Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
  March 12-14, 2009  College Station, TX - Texas A&M (SAAP Website)
   
• APA Pacific Division
  April 8-12, 2009 Vancouver, British Columbia - Westin Bayshore (APA Website)
  • Theme: Process Thought, Violence, and Nonviolence
    • Chair: John Quiring - johnq@ctr4process.org
    • Call for papers

• APA Central Division
  February 18-22, 2009 Chicago, IL - Palmer House Hilton (APA Website)
  • Session coordinator: Randy Auxier

PAST MEETINGS

2007-2008

• APA Eastern  Division Meeting
  December 27-30, 2007  Baltimore, MD - Marriott Inner Harbor (APA Website)
  GROUP SESSION VIII-9 - Saturday, December 29, 11:15 A.M.-1:15 P.M. Bristol Room (Third Floor)
  • Chair: Brian G. Henning (Mount St. Mary's University)
  • Speakers:
    • Thomas A. F. Kelly (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
      “Real Presences: The Dialogic Nature of Process”
    • Derek Malone-France (The George Washington University)
      "Between Molina and Hartshorne: A Whiteheadian Construal of Divine Foreknowledge”
  • Commentator: George Shields (Kentucky State University)
     
• Metaphysical Society of America
  March 7-9, 2008 Portland, ME - University of Southern Maine (MSA Website)
  • Speaker: Brian G. Henning (Mount St. Mary's University)
     
• Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
  March 13-15, 2008  East Lancing, MI - Michigan State University (SAAP Website)
  • Chair: Brian G. Henning (Mount St. Mary's University)
  • Speakers:
    • Vincent Colapietro (Penn State University)
      "Affinities between Alfred North Whitehead & Charles Sanders Peirce: Overlapping Interests and Shared Aspirations"
    • Scott Sinclair (St. Louis University)
      "Is there a connection between Charles Sanders Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead?
       
• APA Pacific Division
  March 19-22, 2008  Pasadena, CA - Hilton Pasadena (APA Website)
  • Theme: Process Thought and the New Atheism (Harris, Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens)
    Chair: Daniel Dombrowski ddombrow@seattleu.edu
    • John Quiring (Victor Valley College and Center for Process Studies)
    • Randy Ramal (Claremont Graduate University)
    • Adam Scarfe (California State University at Bakersfield)
    • Donald Viney (Pittsburg State University)

• APA Central Division
  April 17-20, 2008  Chicago, IL - Palmer House Hilton (APA Website)
  GROUP SESSION - GIV-9 Friday, April 18,  7:00 PM-10:00 PM
  • Theme: "Topic: Whitehead's Empiricism: How Radical?"
  • Speakers:
    • George Allan (Dickinson College)
      “Transforming Whitehead's Eternal Objects into Transient Empirical Possibilities”
    • Gary Herstein (Muskingum College)
      “Irreducible Extension in the Unity of Whitehead's Thought”
  • Respondent: Randall Auxier (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

2006-2007

• December 29, 2006, Washington, D.C. - Marriott Wardman Hotel
  Annual meeting of SSPP at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
   
  • Session GVIII-8: Friday, 11:15-1:15, Harding Room (Mezzanine Level)
  • Session Title: Traditional, Process, and Skeptical Approaches to the Ontological Argument
  • Chair: Brian Henning (Mount St. Mary's University)
  • Presentations:
    • Kathrin Rogers (University of Delaware)
      "Revisiting Anselm's Argument"
    • Mylan Engel (Northern Illinois University)
      "What Ontological Arguments Don't Show”
    • Daniel A. Dombrowski (Seattle University)
      “Response to Rogers and Engel”
       
• March 10, 2007 (4:15-6:00 pm)  Columbia, SC
  Society for the Study of Process Philosophies meeting at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy's Annual Meeting
   
  • Chair:  Brian Henning (Mount St. Mary's University) and Jude Jones (Fordham University)
  • Session Title: "Inconvenient Pragmatic Truths"
    After brief framing remarks from an informal panel of discussants, we will engage in a collaborative inquiry into the role of American philosophies in confronting global climate change
  • Conference Details and Program: SAAP Website

• Saturday, April 7, 2007 (7-10 pm)  San Francisco, CA - Westin
  APA Pacific Division Meeting - Jointly sponsored by the Society for the Study of Process Philosophies, Josiah Royce Society, and the Society for the Philosophy of Creativity
   
  • Chair: John Quiring (Victor Valley College)
  • Remarks:
    • Randall Auxier (Southern Illinois University - Carbondale)
      "On the Society for the Philosophy of Creativity"
    • Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley (California State University - Bakersfield)
      "On the Josiah Royce Society"
  • Speaker:
    • Christina Hutchins (Independent Scholar)
      "The Creativity of the Lost Cause: Grief and Imagination as Environmental Praxis"
    • Respondent: Adam Scarfe (California State University - Bakersfield)
  • Conference Details: APA Website
     

• April 19, 2007 (7:30-10:30 p.m.) Chicago, IL - Palmer House Hilton Hotel
  APA Central Division Meeting - Jointly sponsored by the Society for the Study of Process Philosophies and the Society for the Philosophy of Creativity
   
  • Chair: Stephen Bickham (Mansfield University)
  • Speaker:
    • Douglas Anderson, Southern Illinois University, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
      Creativity Americana"
  • Commentators:
    • Crispin Sartwell (Dickinson College)
    • John Cogan (Southern Illinois University)
  • Conference Details: APA Website

2005-2006

• April 27-30, 2006
  SSPP session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL
  • Chair: Randy Auxier, Southern Illinois at Carbondale
  • Presentations:
    • Don Viney (Pittsburg State University)
      "God as the Most and Best Moved Mover: Hartshorne's Importance for Philosophical Theology"

• March 9-11, 2006 - Annual Meeting of the SSPP at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Texas State University, San Antonio, TX
     
  • Session Title: Process-Pragmatic Moral Philosophy
  • Presentations:
    • Jude Jones, Fordham University
      “Intensity in Moral Experience: A Process-Pragmatic Assessment of the Possibility of Moral Response to Overwhelming Circumstance”
    • Brian G. Henning, Mount St. Mary’s University
      “Whitehead and James on the Aim and the Limits of Moral Philosophy”