Abstract

The main focus of this chapter will be on establishing connections between themes of current analytic metaphysics and traditional Whiteheadian process ontology, ranging from the identity of particulars through time, the mind-body problem, and the metaphysics of time, to the reality of abstract objects. The theory sketched here uses Whiteheadian ideas in some crucial aspects, but places them within the debate of contemporary metaphysics. Most process philosophers are realists about processes and idealists about substances. Process ontology assumes processes with a mind-independent unity and identity. Some of these are directly given in experience. Substances, however, are theoretical constructs which are not directly given in experience, but are rather the result of an abstraction. It is this central thought of process philosophy that will be exploited here in order to find middle ground in the metaphysical debate between endurantists and perdurantists about personal identity.

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