Charles Hartshorne 1897 – 2000

Charles Hartshorne was an American philosopher and the principal interpreter and developer of Whitehead's process metaphysics. After early studies at Harvard with R. B. Perry and a long-time editorial collaboration with Charles Sanders Peirce's papers, he taught at Chicago, Emory, and Texas, where he remained active well into his nineties. The Divine Relativity and Man's Vision of God articulated an original philosophical theology in which God is the supreme related being, including all that is and dependent on its actual course, while The Logic of Perfection revived and extended the ontological argument. He also produced a careful study of birdsong as a philosopher of nature.