Process Metaphysics and Mutative Life

Dr Wahida Khandker is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on intersections between process thought, particularly the work of Henri Bergson, and the philosophy of biology. She is the author of Philosophy, Animality, and the Life Sciences (2014).

“Process Metaphysics and Mutative Life: Sketches of Lived Time impresses with its application of process thought across disciplines. The book also does a great job in providing a narrative that ties together a complexity of issues and theories. Khandker’s focus on scientific research and its meta-physical interpretation builds strong foundations for anyone interested in further exploration of process thought as a method for science and is a must read for ecologists who wish to employ process thought in practice.” (Kamila Kwapińska, Process Studies, Vol. 51 (2), 2022)

• 1. Incipience.- 1.1 Process and biology.- 1.2 Questions of scale.- 1.3 Methodologies.- 1.4 Parts and wholes.- 2. Transmutation.- 2.1 Mutability as ontology.- 2.2 Darwin and transmutation.- 2.3 Contemporary approaches to biodiversity.- 3. Symbiosis.- 3.1 Symbiogenesis.- 3.2 Gaia.- 4. Metamorphosis.- 4.1 Metamorphoses.- 4.2 Spiral and serpentine lines.- 4.3 Drawing lived time.- 5. Reminiscence.- 5.1 Physical time.- 5.2 Metaphysical time.- 5.3 The significance of lived time.- 5.4 Multi-dimensional thinking.- 6. Plasticity.- 6.1 The zero fallacy.- 6.2 Decision and behaviour.- 6.3 Stochasticity.- 6.4 Psychicalism and the scology of mind.- 7. Extinction.- 7.1 Thylacinus cynocephalus.- 7.2 Reverberations.