Process Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)

This is Johanna Seibt's Process Philosophy entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, published by the Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford University in 2012, a continuously revised, peer reviewed reference entry surveying the philosophical tradition, associated especially with Alfred North Whitehead, that treats process and change rather than static substance as metaphysically fundamental. Seibt is a philosopher specializing in metaphysics and process thought. Its strength is that peer editorial process together with the encyclopedia's ongoing revision as scholarship develops. Its limit is that an encyclopedia entry compresses a broad and technically demanding philosophical tradition into a summary, so a claim resting on a specific process philosopher's technical position, particularly Whitehead's own difficult terminology, should be checked against primary texts or a dedicated study rather than this general survey alone.