It is fitting that Volume XX of the Library of Living Philosophers should be devoted to the philosophy of Charles Hartshorne. He has participated as critic in eight of our earlier volumes, more than any other philosopher; and this volume affords opportunity for searching criticism and clarification of his major tenets. He is internationally known for his contributions to philosophy of creativity and for his distinctive brand of process philosophy and theology; and for more than six decades he has presented his theses ever more persuasively, comparing and contrasting them in illuminating fashion with those of major historical figures and movements from Plato, Aristotle, Democritus, and Ancient Buddhism through Epicurus, Anselm, Socinus, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant to Emerson, Bergson, James, Peirce, Dewey, Royce, W.E. Hocking, Whitehead, Husserl, Merleau- Ponty, Heidegger, Ayer, and Popper.

Hartshorne's Intellectual Autobiography affords an interesting account of how his interest in birding developed and how it is related to his philosophical concerns; and a special feature of this volume is dialogue between Professor Hartshorne and various of his critics on his ornithological contributions.

Charles Hartshorne: Some Causes of My Intellectual Growth

Charles L. Birch: Chance, Purpose, and Darwinism
Alexander F. Skutch: Bird Song and Philosophy
Lucio Chiaraviglio: Hartshorne's Aesthetic Theory of Intelligence
Wayne Viney: Charles Hartshorne's Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation
John Hospers: Hartshorne's Aesthetics
Robert H. Kane: Free Will, Determinism, and Creativity in Hartshorne's Thought
Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.: Natural Theology and Bioethics
John B. Cobb, Jr.: Hartshorne's Importance for Theology
William L. Reese: The "Trouble" with Panentheism--and the Divine Event
Jan Van der Veken: Ultimate Reality and God: The Same?
Jacquelyn Ann Kegley: The Divine Relativity and the Beloved Community
Sallie B. King: Buddhism and Hartshorne
John G. Arapura: Hartshorne's Response to Vedanta
James P. Devlin: Hartshorne's Metaphysical Asymmetry
Nancy Frankenberry: Hartshorne's Method in Metaphysics
Lewis S. Ford: Hartshorne's Interpretation of Whitehead
Norman M. Martin: Taking Creativity Seriously: Some Observations on the Logical Structure of Hartshorne's Philosophy
Hubertus G. Hubbeling: Hartshorne and the Ontological Argument
Robert C. Neville: Time, Temporality, and Ontology
T.L.S. Sprigge: Hartshorne's Conception of the Past
Paul G. Kuntz: Charles Hartshorne's Theory of Order and Disorder
Sterling M. McMurrin: Hartshorne's Critique of Classical Metaphysics and Theology
Reiner Wiehl: Hartshorne's Panpsychism
Daniel A. Dombrowski: Hartshorne and Plato
John E. Smith: Deoclassical Metaphysics and the History of Philosophy
George R. Lucas, Jr.: Hartshorne and the Development of Process Philosophies
Donald S. Lee: Hartshorne and Pragmatic Metaphysics
Matao Noda: A Historian's Sketch of Hartshorne's Metaphysics
Keiji Matsunobu: Charles Hartshorne's Impression on the Kyoto School

Charles Hartshorne: A Reply to My Critics

Preliminaries and Principles: Reply to Everybody
Replies to Individuals

Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Hartshorne (Except 1982-1987)
Index by S.S. Rama Rao Pappu

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