Process Ecologies Network

英国哲学家阿尔弗雷德·诺斯·怀特黑德（Alfred North Whitehead）的著作，在英国的近代过程思想和大陆哲学中经常被提及，但在细节上却被忽视，而怀特黑德的学术，包括对其生态维度的关注，在过去的一个世纪里在美国蓬勃发展。与此同时，现在主流承认需要在国际范围内解决气候变化问题，但还没有将“生态”思维整合到哲学研究中。这个跨学科的网络试图解决这两组问题。首先，它将解决英美研究人员在过程哲学方面缺乏广泛合作的问题。它将通过一个专门的英国网络来推广怀特黑德研究的遗产，该网络将能够利用英国学者丰富的（尽管目前是非常不同的）思维过程方法。例如，最近英国、欧洲和美国的“后康德”奖学金集中在吉尔·德勒兹（Gilles Deleuze）和其他20世纪重要法国思想家的遗产上，导致与亨利·柏格森（Henri Bergson）著作的合作重新抬头，最近的一次是在2019年启动的全球柏格森主义研究项目（Global Bergsonism Research Project）和一份新的柏格森研究期刊《Bergsoniana》上。在欧洲大陆，通过设在德国的欧洲过程思想学会，人们对怀特黑德的研究也表现出了类似的兴趣，尽管这种兴趣非常专门化。然而，在英国，将这些领域结合起来的同等研究基地并不明显。拟议中的以英国为基地的网络将通过跨学科活动为过程思维研究的创新扩展奠定基础。特别是，我们希望挖掘实践艺术家作品中最近的“教育转向”，在这种转向中，对他们自己的方法的反思产生了新的“过程”概念，这些概念对过程哲学的学术研究具有未被探索的变革潜力。最后，虽然更普遍地被称为“环境人文学科”（包括批判性动物研究和其他广泛的相关方法）的发展受到欢迎，但它仍有可能处于哲学中更成熟领域的边缘。这个网络将为全新的学术提供一个平台，促进这些方法与当代过程哲学的主流整合。根据怀特黑德、德查丹、柏格森和查尔斯·哈特霍恩的著作，上述运动补充了美国丰富的过程哲学和神学传统，这反映在克莱蒙特神学院过程研究中心正在进行的合作和跨学科项目中。过程研究中心及其项目和教师联合主任继续组织过程生态学活动，并发表有价值的研究成果，这些研究成果在英国学者尚未深入研究。因此，探索英美大陆思想中不同形态的过程思维与自然和生态哲学之间的联系，以及它们如何相互丰富，并指导我们对环境和其他物种的关系进行新的思考，是及时的。为此，该网络将汇集在上述领域工作的学者，并为当前研究提供一个面向公众的平台，以解决环境、气候变化和生物多样性等具体问题，该网络预计将吸引慈善界、公众以及学术界的新受众。

The writings of the British philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, are often alluded to, but neglected in detail, in recent process thought and Continental philosophy in the UK, whilst Whiteheadian scholarship, including attention to its ecological dimensions, has been flourishing for the past century in the US. At the same time, the now mainstream acknowledgement of the need to address climate change on an international scale is not yet matched by the integration of 'ecological' thinking into philosophical research. This cross-disciplinary network seeks to address both sets of problems. Firstly, it will address the lack of UK-US collaborations between researchers in process philosophy, broadly conceived. It will promote the heritage of Whitehead studies through a dedicated UK-based network, that will be able to draw on the rich, if currently, very disparate approaches to process thought amongst UK scholars. For example, recent 'Post-Kantian' scholarship in the UK, Europe, and the US has concentrated on the legacy of Gilles Deleuze and other key twentieth-century French thinkers, leading to a resurgence of engagements with the writings of Henri Bergson, most recently in the Global Bergsonism Research Project launched in 2019 and a new journal of Bergson studies, Bergsoniana. Similar, if very specialized, interest in the work of Whitehead has been evident in mainland Europe through the European Society for Process Thought based in Germany. However, an equivalent research base, combining these strands is not evident in the UK. The proposed UK-based network will lay the groundwork for innovative expansions of research in process thinking through cross-disciplinary activities. In particular, we wish to tap into the recent 'educational turn' in the work of practicing artists, in which reflections on their own methodologies are yielding novel concepts of 'process' with unexplored transformative potential for scholarship in process philosophy. Finally, Whilst the growth of what is more generally termed 'environmental humanities' (which encompasses critical animal studies and a wide range of other related approaches) is welcome, it risks remaining on the margins of more established fields in philosophy. This network will provide a platform for brand new scholarship that promotes the mainstream integration of these approaches into contemporary process philosophy.The above movements thus complement the rich American traditions of process philosophy and theology in light of the works of Whitehead, Teilhard de Chardin, Bergson, and Charles Hartshorne, reflected in the ongoing collaborative and interdisciplinary projects of the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology. The Center for Process Studies with its program and faculty co-directors continues to organize process-ecological events and publish valuable research with which scholars in the UK have yet to engage in depth.It is, therefore, timely to explore the links between the different configurations of process thinking and philosophies of nature and ecology in Continental thought across the UK and US, and how they might enrich one another and guide a renewed thinking of our relation to the environment and other species. To this end, the network will bring together scholars working in the above areas and provide a public-facing platform for current research that addresses concrete issues on the environment, climate change, and biodiversity that it is envisaged will appeal to new audiences within the charity sector and the general public as well as within academia.