The 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies | Science and Philosophy: Nature and the Nature of Reality
Session: Brains, Souls, and Self: Process & Identity
Paper Title: “Mycological Metaphysics: Fungi and Alfred North Whitehead”
Dr. Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and the Fungi Foundation.
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Co-sponsored by the Cobb Institute, the Institute for Ecological Civilization, and the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China, the “50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies” celebrates the 50-year legacy of CPS and its creative transformation in the context of a new generation of process thinkers.
Learn more: ctr4process.org/50years/
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The Center for Process Studies (CPS) is a faculty research center of Claremont School of Theology. CPS conducts interdisciplinary research guided by the view that interconnection, change, and intrinsic value are core features of the universe.
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2 май 2023
