Processes: Bringing Analytic and Continental Traditions Together

Processes represent an alternative to widely used categories used to describe the phenomena of the world (e.g. events, objects, states of affairs). Including processes as a distinct category in our story of the world may change the presuppositions with which we tell that story, and so change the sorts of questions we raise, and the sorts of answers we find plausible. Processes have been advocated as part of the story in a diverse range of fields, including philosophy of biology, the metaphysics of freedom, the interpretation of signs, and our perception of the environment. This workshop will bring together philosophers working on processes from intellectual traditions normally isolated from one another, in order investigate the case in favour of this category, the common themes in understanding of processes across intellectual traditions, and the potential impact of taking processes seriously as a category on our wider understanding of the world.