About

The Process Documentation Center is attached to the Institute of Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, as a part of the research-center for metaphysics and philosophical anthropology. The Process Documentation Center collects, in close collaboration with the Center for Process Studies in Claremont, materials related to process philosophy, especially the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, to make them available for research. Currently, also an electronic version of the materials is in preparation.

The aim of the Center is also to bring European process-scholars together and to invite specialists from all over the world for seminars, research and discussion. Recently, scholars like Lewis Ford (USA) and James Bradley (Canada) stayed at the Center for several months.

The focus of the research at the Center is on the relevance of process philosophy within the contemporary European philosophical scene. As part of that project, conferences have been organised to explore specific aspects of process philosophy from a European perspective. Such conferences have been held in Lille-Kortrijk on "Whitehead and the Rythms of Education" in 1994 and on "The Future of Process Thought in Europe" in 1997, and in Leuven on "The Interplay between Science, Philosophy and Religion : the European Heritage" in 1998 and on "The Philosophical Significance of Whitehead's Concept of Creativity" in 1999.

Direktor des Centers: Prof. Dr. A. Cloots