Introduction

This issue of Process Studies contains four articles that were originally delivered as papers at the conference “A Century of Process Thought: Commemorating Whitehead's Legacy at Harvard and Beyond” that occurred on September 27, 2024, at Harvard. The conference was cosponsored by several organizations, including the Center for Process Studies (under the leadership of Andrew Schwartz and Andrew Davis), the Whitehead Research Project (under the leadership of Brian Henning and Joe Petek), the Harvard Chinese Students and Scholars Association, United International College (China), and the Boston School of Modern Languages. The four articles included here are by Randall Auxier on “Royce, Whitehead, and the Context of Philosophy at Harvard”; Ronny Desmet on “Whitehead's Harvard Legacy: Its Possible Implications for Artificial Intelligence”; Wang Kun on “Whitehead's Chinese Disciples at Harvard University and Whitehead's Influence on the Development of Modern Chinese Philosophy”; and Yang Li and Wen Hongyu's “Whitehead's Organic Education in China.” In addition, two of this issue's book reviews deal with Whitehead at Harvard: Donald Viney's review of a collection of essays that deal with the first volume of Whitehead's lectures at Harvard and Matt Segall's review of the second volume of Whitehead's lectures at Harvard. All of this material, plus other pieces in the current issue of the journal, are a fitting tribute to the great John Cobb, whose recent death is mourned by process thinkers around the world, including in China.