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‘Process philosophy’ is a term strongly associated with Whitehead (1979). The interactivist approaches have, in general, been more directly influenced by physics and biology than by Whitehead. One point of convergence is the rejection of matter or substance as a basic metaphysical category; a point of contrast is Whitehead’s discrete “occasions”.
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Bickhard, M.H. Does Process Matter? An Introduction to the Special Issue on Interactivism. Axiomathes 21, 1–2 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-010-9124-x
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