Process metaphysics | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-05

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00:02:15 1 History
00:02:24 1.1 In ancient Greek thought
00:04:35 1.2 Twentieth century
00:06:57 2 Whitehead's iProcess and Reality/i
00:08:06 2.1 Process metaphysics
00:11:05 2.1.1 Whitehead's actual entities
00:14:17 2.1.1.1 Time, causality, and process
00:16:03 2.1.1.2 Atomicity
00:17:19 2.1.1.3 Topology
00:20:12 2.1.2 Whitehead's abstractions
00:21:48 2.1.3 Relation between actual entities and abstractions stated in the ontological principle
00:22:28 2.1.4 Causation and concrescence of a process
00:23:18 3 Commentary on Whitehead and on process philosophy
00:23:44 3.1 On God
00:27:31 4 Legacy and applications
00:27:41 4.1 Biology
00:28:31 4.2 Ecology
00:30:06 4.3 Mathematics
00:31:20 4.4 Medicine
00:32:18 4.5 Psychology
00:34:04 5 See also



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Process philosophy — also ontology of becoming, processism, or philosophy of organism — identifies metaphysical reality with change. In opposition to the classical model of change as illusory (as argued by Parmenides) or accidental (as argued by Aristotle), process philosophy regards change as the cornerstone of reality—the cornerstone of being thought of as becoming.
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle, some philosophers have posited true reality as "timeless", based on permanent substances, while processes are denied or subordinated to timeless substances. If Socrates changes, becoming sick, Socrates is still the same (the substance of Socrates being the same), and change (his sickness) only glides over his substance: change is accidental, whereas the substance is essential. Therefore, classic ontology denies any full reality to change, which is conceived as only accidental and not essential. This classical ontology is what made knowledge and a theory of knowledge possible, as it was thought that a science of something in becoming was an impossible feat to achieve.Philosophers who appeal to process rather than substance include Heraclitus, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Martin Heidegger, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James,  Alfred North Whitehead, Alfred Korzybski, R. G. Collingwood, Alan Watts, Robert M. Pirsig, Charles Hartshorne, Arran Gare, Nicholas Rescher, Colin Wilson, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze. In physics, Ilya Prigogine distinguishes between the "physics of being" and the "physics of becoming". Process philosophy covers not just scientific intuitions and experiences, but can be used as a conceptual bridge to facilitate discussions among religion, philosophy, and science.Process philosophy is sometimes classified as closer to Continental philosophy than analytic philosophy, because it is usually only taught in Continental departments. However, other sources state that process philosophy should be placed somewhere in the middle between the poles of analytic versus Continental methods in contemporary philosophy.