It gathers scholars from all parts of the world, as amply demonstrated in August 1998 at the twenty-fifth Anniversary Whitehead Conference in Claremont, California.
Process thinking also spans the gap between theory and practice.
Whitehead's famous aeroplane needs to land frequently to check that it is still inhabiting the same world from which it took off. In the same vein, the conference ended in an excursion to the Nudgee Beach Environmental Education Centre and a presentation on the struggle for the preservation and restoration of the Boondall Wetlands, the largest remaining wetlands in the Brisbane region. For the purposes of this journal, 'process thought' is understood in a broad sense , as including A.N. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne and people strongly inspired by them but by no means restricted to the Whiteheadian or Hartshornean traditions. Like many of our colleagues in the United States and Europe, Japan, China, India and South Africa, we in Australia are more interested in doing in our time and place and context what Whitehead and our other process thinkers have done in theirs, in following their example, rather than just repeating or interpreting what they have said. Beyond this, however, we would hope to demonstrate that Australasian process thought has a genius of its own, while drawing from and strongly inspired by our friends and colleagues elsewhere.