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A Note Regarding Relational Ontology in Chemistry 关于化学中关系本体的注解

Process Studies Pub Date : 2019-04-01 DOI: 10.5840/PROCESS20194815

J. Kopel

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Event Ontology, Habit, and Agency 事件本体、习惯和代理

Process Studies Pub Date : 2019-04-01 DOI: 10.5840/PROCESS20194816

P. Tryon

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Thinking with Whitehead on Transcendence and Its Failures 与怀特海一起思考超越性及其失败

Process Studies Pub Date : 2019-04-01 DOI: 10.5840/PROCESS20194812

L. Hedrick

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Three Paradigm Theories of Time: Bergson, McTaggart, and Whitehead 时间的三种范式理论:柏格森、麦克塔格特和怀特海

Process Studies Pub Date : 2019-04-01 DOI: 10.5406/processstudies.48.1.0088

E. Luft

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Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology 万物流动：迈向过程生物学哲学

Process Studies Pub Date : 2019-04-01 DOI: 10.5840/PROCESS20194819

A. Scarfe

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The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead (1924–1925): Philosophical Presuppositions of Science 阿尔弗雷德-诺斯-怀特海的哈佛演讲（1924-1925 年）：科学的哲学预设

Process Studies Pub Date : 2019-04-01 DOI: 10.5840/PROCESS201948110

A. Scarfe

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Interstitial Life and the Banality of Novelty in Whitehead’s Process and Reality 怀特海《过程与现实》中的间隙生活与新奇的平庸

Process Studies Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.5840/process2018471/22

David L. Rambo

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Theoretical Note on the Nature of the Present 论“现在”的本质

Process Studies Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.5840/PROCESS2018471/29

Jason W. Brown

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Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Whitehead: A Romantic and Invisible Influence 梅洛-庞蒂对怀特海的解读:一种浪漫而无形的影响

Process Studies Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.5840/PROCESS2018471/24

A. Kirkpatrick

引用次数: 1

The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization: A Manifesto for the Future 生态文明的哲学基础:面向未来的宣言

Process Studies Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.5840/PROCESS2018471/213

Alexander Haitos

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