Any of a variety of theories emphasizing that the basic reality in the universe is not objects or substances but processes.
Objects are mere temporary bodies in the general flux, and are not sharply separated from one another; and real time is continuous and not an accretion of instantaneous moments.
Process philosophy can be seen in Heraclitus of Ephesus (writing c.500 BC), and its leading modern exponents include William James (1842-1910), Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947).
Source:
W James, A Pluralistic Universe (1909), lecture 6; clear, readable, and sympathetic exposition of some of Bergson’s philosophy, which had Bergson’s full approval
Table of Contents
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- 2.1 Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy (Suny Series in Philosophy)
- 2.2 Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead
- 2.3 Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues
- 2.4 A Process Model (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
- 2.5 The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies (Oxford Handbooks)
- 2.6 The Becoming of God: Process Theology, Philosophy, and Multireligious Engagement (Cascade Companions)
- 2.7 The Metaphysics of Experience: A Companion to Whitehead's Process and Reality (American Philosophy)
- 2.8 Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28)
- 2.9 Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology
- 2.10 A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality
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