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According to the currently fashionable interpretation of Whitehead he was a “process” philosopher. It is the view of Professor Hartshorne, surely, and it is the view of those who publish the journal which is devoted to Hartshorne’s version of Whitehead’s Process Studies. 1 There is some truth in the view; it is not entirely false, but, I submit, it is not entirely true, either. I hope to show that the classification does some injustice to what Whitehead himself called “the philosophy of organism.”
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Feibleman, J.K. (1974). Why Whitehead is not a “Process” Philosopher. In: Whittemore, R.C. (eds) Studies in Process Philosophy I. Tulane Studies in Philosophy, vol XXIII. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4786-8_4
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