Process philosophy

Process philosophy is the view that change, events and becoming, rather than enduring substances, are the basic features of reality.

It looks back to Heraclitus, and its main modern forms are Henri Bergson's philosophy of duration, developed in France around 1900, and A. N. Whitehead's Process and Reality (1929), written at Harvard. Whitehead described the world as made of interrelated actual occasions of experience, and his ideas were taken up in process theology by Charles Hartshorne and others. On this site process philosophy answers questions on substance theory (1.1.1), which asks whether a river is a thing or an event, and on the philosophy of time.