Hi Marsha
From wikipaedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_philosophy
*Process philosophy* (or *ontology of becoming*) identifies metaphysical
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics> reality
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality> with change
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change> and dynamism
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamism_%28metaphysics%29>. Since the
time of Plato <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato> and Aristotle
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle>, philosophers have posited true
reality as "timeless", based on permanent substances
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_theory>, whilst processes are
denied or subordinated to timeless substances. If Socrates
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_knowledge> possible, as it was
thought that a science of something in becoming was an impossible feat
to achieve ^[1]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_philosophy#cite_note-0> .
On the contrary, Process philosophy, or an ontology of the becoming,
does not characterize change as illusory or as purely accidental to the
substance, as in Aristotle's thought, but as the cornerstone of reality,
or Being (thought as Becoming). Modern process philosophers include
Henri Bergson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson>, Charles
Peirce <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce>, John Dewey
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey>, Alfred North Whitehead
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead>, Charles
Hartshorne <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hartshorne>, Martin
Heidegger <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger>, Friedrich
Nietzsche <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche>, Nicholas
Rescher <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Rescher>, and Gilles
Deleuze <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze>, a list to which
some add Arthur Schopenhauer
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer>, Hegel
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegel>, and even Spinoza
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinoza>. In physics Ilya Prigogine
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Prigogine>^[2]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_philosophy#cite_note-1>
distinguishes between the `physics of being' and the `physics of becoming'.
Cheers
Horse
On 30/03/2010 11:49, MarshaV wrote:
On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Horse wrote:
Process metaphysics
Greetings Horse,
Since you brought it up, would you explain and give examples of process
metaphysics. Not what it might be, but what it is...
Marsha
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