Guest Editor's Introduction: The Hartshorne Centennial Conference

Author(s): William T. Myers

Source: The Personalist Forum, Vol. 14, No. 2, The Hartshorne Centennial Conference (Fall
1998), pp. 73-74
Published by: University of Illinois Press on behalf of the Society for the Advancement
of American Philosophy
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 [ The Personalist Forum. Volume 14, number 2. Fall 1998. 73-74. ]

Guest Editor's Introduction:

The Hartshorne Centennial Conference
William T. Myers

In ofthe
Texasspring
at Austin of 1997,1
asking received
me to participate in anda organize
call from Robert Kane of the University
a conference
at the University of Texas at Austin in honor of Charles Hartshorne's 100th
birthday. The conference was slated to be held the following fall. I gladly
accepted that invitation, and, with the help of Randall Auxier, began gath
ering names and ideas. The results of what finally emerged from all of our
frettings and deliberations appear on the following pages. While the excite
ment of the occasion itself can never be captured in mere words-?Professor
Hartshorne's entrance at the peak of George Lucas's wonderful keynote
address, for example?perhaps the intellectual substance of it can. In an
attempt to capture some of the spirited dialogue and interaction of the
weekend, we have included transcripts of the discussions following the four
papers that were presented on the second day of the conference. In transcrib
ing these conversations, I diligently tried to be as faithful to the dialogue as
possible. However, there are certain inevitable technological limitations
which, unfortunately, resulted in some portions of the discussion being
omitted, including most of the discussion following Barry Whitney's paper
and some at the very end of Don Viney's. I apologize to those whose
participation might not be reflected or fully reflected in these pages, but,
alas, our limitations frequently exceed our desires. To those who are
included, I sincerely hope that my transcription accurately reflects what was
actually said. If not completely factual, I hope it is at least true in spirit.
Finally, some words of acknowledgment are in order. Thanks to Robert
Kane for starting the ball rolling and for helping to secure the necessary
funding for the conference; to the sponsors of the conference: the University
of Texas Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts, Religious
Studies Program, and Office of the Vice President and Dean of Graduate
Studies; to the staff at the University of Texas at Austin for all of their help,

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74 Charles Hartshorne

especially Debbie Nelson and Amy Lee; to all of the presenters at the
conference and to all of those who attended; to the editors of the Personalist
Forum for agreeing to publish these proceedings; and to Charles Hartshorne
for giving us so much to talk about. Finally, I want to personally thank
Randall Auxier for the invitation to serve as the guest editor and, more
generally, for all of the conversations we have had on this and other subjects.

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