Charles Hartshorne

Background

Hartshorne, Charles was born on June 5, 1897 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Francis Cope and Marguerite (Haughton) Hartshorne.

Education

Student, Haverford College, 1917. AB, Harvard University, 1921. AM, Harvard University, 1922.

Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1923. Postgraduate, University Freiburg, Germany, 1925. Postgraduate, University Marburg, 1925.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Haverford College, 1967. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Episcopal Theological Seminary of Southwest, 1977. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Emory University, 1969.

Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Leuven, Belgium, 1978.

Career

Sheldon travelling fellow, Harvard University, 1923-1925; instructor, research fellow, Harvard University, 1925-1928; member of faculty, University of Chicago, 1928-1955; member federated theological faculty, University of Chicago, 1943-1955; professor philosophy, University of Chicago, 1949-1955; professor philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, 1955-1962; professor philosophy, University Texas, Austin, 1962-1963; Ashbel Smith professor philosophy, University Texas, 1963-1976; professor emeritus, University Texas, since 1976. Visiting professor Stanford University, 1937, New School Social Research, 1941-1942, Johann Wolfgang Goethe U., Frankfurt, Germany, 1948-1949, U. Washington, 1958, Banaras Hindu U., Varanasi, India, 1966, Colorado College, 1977, 79, U. Leuven, 1978. Terry lecturer Yale, 1947.

Fulbright lecturer, Melbourne, 1952. Fulbright professor, Kyoto, Japan, 1958, 66. Dudleian lecturer Harvard University, 1963.

Morse lecturer Union Theological Seminary, 1964. Lowell lecturer Harvard University, 1979, 86.

Achievements

• Charles Hartshorne has been listed as a noteworthy philosopher, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Divine Relativity: A Social Conception of God (The Terry Lectures Series)

    ( Charles Hartshorne has set himself the task of formulat...)

  • The Logic of Perfection

    ( “In blunt outline the answer to the question, how do we...)

  • Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song (A Midland Book)

    ( First published in 1973, Born to Sing is a monumental u...)

  • The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne, Volume 20 (Library of Living Philosophers (Paperback))

    (Part of a series of studies of contemporary philosophers,...)

  • Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes

    (This book presents Hartshorne's philosophical theology br...)

  • Natural Theology for Our Time

    (Transcripts of four Morse lectures givenat Union Theologi...)

  • Wisdom As Moderation: A Philosophy of the Middle Way (S U N Y Series in Philosophy)

    (Book by Hartshorne, Charles)

  • Creativity in American Philosophy

    (Book by Hartshorne, Charles)

  • Beyond Humanism: Essays in the New Philosophy of Nature

    (Book by Hartshorne, Charles)

  • A Natural Theology for Our Time

    (Book by Hartshorne, Charles)

  • Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers: An Evaluation of Western Philosophy (Suny Series in Systematic Philosophy)

    (Book by Hartshorne, Charles)

  • Beyond Humanism: Essays in the Philosophy of Nature

    (Book by Hartshorne, Charles)

  • Natural Theology for Our Time by Charles Hartshorne (1973-01-01)

    (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)

  • The Divine Relativity a Social Conception of God

    (164 pages)

  • Beyond Humanism: Essays in the Philosophy of Nature
  • Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes by Hartshorne, Charles 1984
  • Zero Fallacy: and Other Essays in Neoclassical Philosophy by Charles Hartshorne (1998-12-31)
  • Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song (A Midland Book) by Hartshorne, Charles (1992) Paperback
  • Hartshorne and Brightman on God, Process and Persons: The Correspondence, 1922-1945 (The Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy) by Charles Hartshorne (2000-10-31)
  • Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne (The Library of Living Philosophers, V. 20) by Charles Hartshorne (1991-03-01)
  • Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers: An Evaluation of Western Philosophy (Suny Series in Systematic Philosophy) (SUNY Series in Philosophy) by Charles Hartshorne (1983-06-30)
  • The Logic Of Perfection And Other Essays In Neoclassical Metaphysics
  • By Charles Hartshorne - Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes: 1st (first) Edition
  • Aquinas to Whitehead: Seven Centuries of Metaphysics of Religion (Aquinas Lecture 40)
  • Logic of Perfection & Other Essays in Ne
  • Beyond Humanism Essays in the Philosophy of Nature
  • The Logic of Perfection and other essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics.
  • Creative Experiencing: A Philosophy of Freedom (SUNY Series in Philosophy (Paperback)) by Charles Hartshorne (2012-07-02)
  • Reality as social process;: Studies in metaphysics and religion
  • The divine relativity,: A social conception of God (The Terry lectures)
  • (The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics) Author: Charles Hartshorne published on (October, 2011)
  • Beyond humanism;: Essays in the new philosophy of nature,
  • (Born to Sing: Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song) Author: Charles Hartshorne published on (November, 1992)
  • A Natural Theology for Our Time
  • Creativity in American Philosophy by Charles Hartshorne (1985-06-30)
  • The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation by Charles H. Hartshorne (2014-01-17)
  • The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation:
  • The Darkness and the Light: A Philosopher Reflects upon His Fortunate Career and Those Who Made It Possible

Views

Charles Sanders Peirce (1931-1935). In The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation (1934) he drew upon scientific psychology and philosophy to demonstrate that sensation is an evaluative feeling exhibiting continuity, a thesis he subsequently elaborated into a panpsychist or psychalist Philosophy according to which life or feeling Permeates the cosmos, concentrated in individualized centres, identical to Whitehead's ‘actual entities’ or ‘occasions of experience’. Hartshorne held, like Whitehead before him, that recent developments in natural science require a radical fcconccption of nature. Since nature is rcconceived as an affective continuum of valuational feelings, furthermore, a new theology replaces the classical conception of God. Hartshorne’s speculations came to fruition in his 1946 Terry Lectures at Yale University, published in The Divine Relativity (1947). Hartshorne's process deity has a dipolar nature—an abstract, eternal nature and a concrete, temporal nature. It mirrors Whitehead's distinction between the primordial and consequent natures of God. The unity of these two aspects of God embraces the World, God being supreme as the eternal-temporal consciousness, knowing and including the world. Hence Hartshorne has advocated panentheism, the doctrine that God includes the world yet transcends it. Hartshorne has sought to employ the instruments of modal logic to prove the existence of God. Thus he has contributed to the revival of interest in the ontological argument in fecent decades. His endeavours to rehabilitate the reputation of Anselm and to resuscitate the ontological argument illustrate the ‘neo-classical’ Jurn of his thought. Hartshorne’s hobby in oirdwatching and listening to birdsong has resulted in his international reputation as an ornithologist. He published a prize-winning 'vork. Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

Membership

Served with United States Army, 1917-1919. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Philosophical Association (president 1948-1949), Metaphys.

Society of America (president 1954-1955), Charles Peirce Society (president 1950-1951), Society for Philosophy of Religion (president 1963-1964), Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (president 1962-1963).

Interests

• Philosophy of religion.

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  Emerson, Peirce and Whitehead.

Connections

Married Dorothy Eleanore Cooper, December 22, 1928. 1 child, Emily Lawrence (Mistress Nicolas D. Goodman).

Father:

Francis Cope Hartshorne

Mother:

Marguerite (Haughton) Hartshorne

Spouse:

Dorothy Eleanore Cooper

child:

Emily Lawrence Hartshorne (Mistress Nicolas D. Goodman)