Introduction

The Australasian Association for Process Thought was formed in 1996 by process philosopher and theologian, Dr. Greg Moses and computer scientist, Peter Farleigh, with support from biologist and writer, Professor Charles Birch and humanities professor, Wayne Hudson. The aim of the organisation is to promote the study of the process-relational thought of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne in the Antipodes.

Membership consists of philosophers, scientists, medics, psychologists, clergy, students, and other interested scholars from all over Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. We have strong links with other groups and individuals in South Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States.

The AAPT is a founding member organisation of the International Process Network.

In May 1997 we hosted the very first conference on process thought in the region, entitled The Contemporary Relevance of Process Thought.

We held our second conference in Brisbane in September 1999, entitled
Process Thought as an Ecological Worldview.

In June 2000 we launched our on-line journal for process thought called Concrescence.

From the 29th of November to the 2nd of December 2001 we held our third, and again, very successful conference at Latrobe University, Melbourne.
The theme was "The Liberation of Life". Some of the presentations from that conference can be found on our Discussion Papers page.