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• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Dupre (John) - Metaphysics of metamorphosis", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read
  2. "Hudson (Hud) - Vagueness and Composition", 2001
  3. "Ladyman (James), Ross (Don), Spurrett (David) & Collier (John) - Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized", 2007, Book, Read = 2%
  4. "Markosian (Ned) - Brutal Composition", 1998, Internal PDF Link
  5. "Miller (Kristie) - The Existential Quantifier, Composition and Contingency", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
  6. "Parsons (Josh) - Conceptual Conservatism and Contingent Composition", 2005, Internal PDF Link
  7. "Rescher (Nicholas) - Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy", 1996, Book, Read = 1%
  8. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - The Special Composition Question", 1990, No Abstract
  9. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - When are Objects Parts?", 1987, Internal PDF Link, Read = 12%
  10. "Vieira (Celso) - Which is more fundamental: processes or things?", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read
• For a Page of Links¹⁴ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹⁵, include the following:-
  • Aeon:
    1. "Dupre (John) - Metaphysics of metamorphosis", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Nail (Thomas) - Video - What is movement", 2022, External Link
    3. "Vieira (Celso) - Which is more fundamental: processes or things?", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
  • General:
    1. "Han (Byung-Chul) - Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese", 2017, Book
    2. "Meincke (Anne Sophie) - Human Persons – A Process View", 2019, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Bapteste (Eric) & Dupre (John) - Towards a processual microbial ontology", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    2. "Boogerd (Fred C.), Etc., Eds. - Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations", 2007, Book
    3. "DiFrisco (James) & Mossio (Matteo) - Diachronic Identity in Complex Life Cycles: An Organizational Perspective", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    4. "Hudson (Hud) - Vagueness and Composition", 2001
    5. "Jaeger (Johannes) & Monk (Nick) - Everything flows: A process perspective on life", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    6. "Jaeger (Johannes), Irons (David) & Monk (Nick) - The Inheritance of Process: A Dynamical Systems Approach", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    7. "Ladyman (James), Ross (Don), Spurrett (David) & Collier (John) - Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized", 2007, Book, Read = 2%
    8. "Markosian (Ned) - Brutal Composition", 1998, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Meincke (Anne Sophie) - Autopoiesis, Biological Autonomy and the Process View of Life", 2019, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    10. "Meincke (Anne Sophie) - How to stay the same while changing", Undated, Internal PDF Link, Read = 67%
    11. "Meincke (Anne Sophie) - Persons as Biological Processes: A Bio-Processual Way Out of the Personal Identity Dilemma", 2018, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    12. "Meincke (Anne Sophie) - Powers, Persistence and Process", 2020, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
    13. "Meincke (Anne Sophie) - Processual Animalism: Towards a Scientifically Informed Theory of Personal Identity", 2020, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    14. "Meincke (Anne Sophie) - The Disappearance of Change: Towards a Process Account of Persistence", 2018, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    15. "Meincke (Anne Sophie) & Dupre (John) - Biological Identity: Why Metaphysicians and Philosophers of Biology Should Talk to One Another", 2020, Internal PDF Link, Read = 40%
    16. "Miller (Kristie) - The Existential Quantifier, Composition and Contingency", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    17. "Nicholson (Daniel J.) & Dupre (John), Eds. - Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology", 2018, Book, Read = 2%
    18. "Parsons (Josh) - Conceptual Conservatism and Contingent Composition", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    19. "Rescher (Nicholas) - Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy", 1996, Book, Read = 1%
    20. "Seibt (Johanna) - Forms of Emergent Interaction in General Process Theory", 2009, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    21. "Seibt (Johanna) - Process Philosophy", 2013-17, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    22. "Simons (Peter) - Processes and Precipitates", 2018, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    23. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - The Special Composition Question", 1990, No Abstract
    24. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - When are Objects Parts?", 1987, Internal PDF Link, Read = 12%
    25. "Varela (Francisco J.) - Organism, Cognitive Science and the Emergence of Selfless Selves", 1991, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    26. "Varela (Francisco J.) & Maturana (Humberto) - Mechanism and Biological Explanation", 1972, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    27. "Williams (Christopher) - The Identity of Events", 1989

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder¹⁶.

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Aeon	Video - Not the same river. Not the same man.	Paper		Yes
Appleby (Peter C.)	On Religious Attitudes	Paper
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke on Living Things	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Materialism with a Human Face	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper		Yes
Dupre (John)	Metaphysics of metamorphosis	Paper	2	Yes
Goodwin (Brian)	How the Leopard Changed its Spots - The Evolution of Complexity	Book
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Human Persons – A Process View	Paper		Yes
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Persons as Biological Processes: A Bio-Processual Way Out of the Personal Identity Dilemma	Paper
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Powers, Persistence and Process	Paper
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper		Yes
Sosa (Ernest)	Subjects Among Other Things	Paper
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Bundle Theories	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Death	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Individual	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Metaphysics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Narrative Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Organisms	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Problem of the Many	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Properties	Paper		Yes
Ward (Keith)	Review - Goff - Why? The Purpose of the Universe	Paper		Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Aeon	Video - Not the same river. Not the same man.	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 07 July 2021	Yes
Appleby (Peter C.)	On Religious Attitudes	Paper - By Subtopic	Religious Studies Vol. 6, No. 4 (Dec., 1970), pp. 359-368	33%
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke (Vol 2 - Ontology)	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	26%
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke on Living Things	Paper - Referencing	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 19, pp. 216-228	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Materialism with a Human Face	Paper - Referencing	Corcoran - Soul, Body and Survival, Chapter 10	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper - Referencing	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 1, pp. 3-88	Yes
Bapteste (Eric) & Dupre (John)	Towards a processual microbial ontology	Paper - Cited	Biology & Philosophy 28(2), (2013) 28:379–404	5%
Boogerd (Fred C.), Etc., Eds.	Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations	Book - Cited	Boogerd (Fred C.), Etc., Eds. - Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations	0%
Boogerd (Fred C.), Etc., Eds.	Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations	Paper - By Subtopic	Boogerd (Fred C.), Etc., Eds. - Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations	1%
Calvo (Paco)	The philosophy of plant neurobiology: a manifesto	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese , May 2016, Vol. 193, No. 5, Special Issue on Neuroscience And Its Philosophy (2014–2015) (May 2016), pp. 1323-1343	6%
Calvo (Paco)	What Is It Like to Be a Plant?	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Consciousness Studies, 24, No. 9–10, 2017, pp. 205–27	5%
Corcoran (Kevin), Ed.	Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	99%
De Jesus (Paulo)	Autopoietic Enactivism, Phenomenology and the Deep Continuity Between Life and Mind	Paper - By Subtopic	Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 15, 265-289	5%
Dennett (Daniel)	Review - Varela, Thompson and Rosch - The Embodied Mind - Cognitive Science and Human Experience	Paper - By Subtopic	The American Journal of Psychology , Spring, 1993, Vol. 106, No. 1 (Spring, 1993), pp. 121-126	33%
Dupre (John)	Metaphysics of metamorphosis	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 30 November, 2017	Yes
Dupre (John) & Nicholson (Daniel J.), Eds.	Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology	Paper - By Subtopic	Nicholson (Daniel J.) & Dupre (John), Eds. - Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology	0%
Ferner (Adam)	Metaphysics and biology: a critique of David Wiggins’ account of personal identity	Paper - By Subtopic	PhD Thesis, Birkbeck, 2014	1%
Ferner (Adam)	Processual Individuals and Moral Responsibility	Paper - By Subtopic	Meincke (Anne Sophie) & Dupre (John), Eds. - Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology	6%
Gagliano (Monica)	The mind of plants: Thinking the unthinkable	Paper - By Subtopic	Communicative and Integrative Biology, 10, 2017	Yes
Griffiths (Paul)	Darwinism, Process Structuralism, and Natural Kinds	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy of Science 63, Supplement. Proceedings of the 1996 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association. Part I: Contributed Papers (Sep., 1996), pp. S1-S9	No
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: C-F	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	51%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: T-Z	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	21%
Han (Byung-Chul)	Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese	Book - Cited	Han (Byung-Chul) - Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese	Yes
Hudson (Hud)	A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	2%
Hudson (Hud)	Vagueness and Composition	Paper - Cited	Hudson (Hud) - A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person, 2001, Chapter 3, pp. 72-112	No
Jaeger (Johannes) & Monk (Nick)	Everything flows: A process perspective on life	Paper - By Subtopic	EMBO Reports (2015) 16:1064-1067	17%
Jaeger (Johannes), Irons (David) & Monk (Nick)	The Inheritance of Process: A Dynamical Systems Approach	Paper - By Subtopic	J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 2012. 318B:591–612	5%
Ladyman (James), Ross (Don), Spurrett (David) & Collier (John)	Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized	Book - Cited	Ladyman (James), Ross (Don), Spurrett (David) & Collier (John) - Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized	2%
Ladyman (James), Ross (Don), Spurrett (David) & Collier (John)	Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized	Paper - By Subtopic	Ladyman (James), Ross (Don), Spurrett (David) & Collier (John) - Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized	5%
Machamer (Peter), Darden (Lindley) & Craver (Carl F.)	Thinking about Mechanisms	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy of Science , Mar., 2000, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Mar., 2000), pp. 1-25	10%
Markosian (Ned)	Brutal Composition	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Studies 92:211-249, 1998	No
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Autopoiesis, Biological Autonomy and the Process View of Life	Paper - By Subtopic	European Journal for Philosophy of Science (2019) 9:5	11%
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Bio-Agency: Can Organisms Act?	Paper - By Subtopic	Spann, A. S. / Wehinger, D. (Hg.): Vermögen und Handlung. Der dispositionale Realismus und unser Selbstverständnis als Handelnde, Münster: Mentis, 2014, 191-224	10%
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Do Human Embryos Have a Disposition to Personhood?	Paper - By Subtopic	Der manipulierbare Embryo: Potentialitäts und Speziesargumente auf dem Prüfstand, ed. by M. Hähnel, M. Rothhaar & R. Kipke, Münster: Mentis, 147-171	10%
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	How to stay the same while changing	Paper - By Subtopic	Academia.edu	No
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Human Persons – A Process View	Paper - Cited	Was sind und wie existieren Personen? (What are Persons and how Do They Exist?), ed. by Jörg Noller, Münster: Mentis, 2019	Yes
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Metaphysics: On the Being-There of What There Is	Paper - By Subtopic	Wozu Metaphysik? Historisch-systematische Perspektiven, ed. by C. Erhard, D. Meißner & J. Noller, Freiburg i. Br.: Alber, 96-130	No
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	On the Battlefield of Metaphysics	Paper - By Subtopic	On the Battlefield of Metaphysics. Critical Studies on the Transtemporal Identity of Persons: Münster: Mentis	8%
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	One or two? A Process View of pregnancy	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies Volume 179, pages 1495–1521, (2022)	8%
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Personality and Personal Identity - Challenging a Substance Theoretical Presumption	Paper - By Subtopic	Persönlichkeit. Neurowissenschaftliche und neurophilosophische Fragestellungen, ed. by O. Friedrich & M. Zichy, Münster: Mentis, 2014, pp. 163-187	10%
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Potentiality and Disposition in the Discussion about the Moral Status of Human Embryos	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophisches Jahrbuch 122 (2015), 271-303	6%
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Powers, Persistence and Process	Paper - By Subtopic	A. S. Meincke (ed.), Dispositionalism. Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science, Springer (Synthese Library), 2020, Chapter 7	10%
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Review of Chauncey Maher's 'Plant Minds'	Paper - By Subtopic	The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Review of Books, 2019	Yes
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Systems or Bodies? On How (Not) to Embody Autopoiesis	Paper - By Subtopic	Adaptive Behavior, Published On-Line 8 April 2019	No
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	The Disappearance of Change: Towards a Process Account of Persistence	Paper - By Subtopic	Forthcoming (as of November 2018) in: International Journal of Philosophical Studies	6%
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Without Metaphysics, please!? Transtemporal Personal Identity as Practical Reality	Paper - By Subtopic	Personale Identität, Narrativität und praktische Rationalität, ed. by G. Gasser, M. Schmidhuber, Münster: Mentis, 2013, pp. 241-265	10%
Meincke (Anne Sophie) & Dupre (John), Eds.	Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Meincke (Anne Sophie) & Dupre (John), Eds. - Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology	6%
Menary (Richard)	Introduction to the special issue on 4E cognition	Paper - By Subtopic	Phenomenology and Cognitive Science 9, 459-463, 2010	17%
Miller (Kristie)	The Existential Quantifier, Composition and Contingency	Paper - Cited	Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 73, No. 2 (September 2010), pp. 211-235	5%
Nail (Thomas)	Video - What is movement	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 03 May 2022	Yes
Nicholson (Daniel J.) & Dupre (John), Eds.	Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology	Book - Cited	Nicholson (Daniel J.) & Dupre (John), Eds. - Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology	2%
Noller (Jorg)	Beyond Animalism and Constitutionalism: The Person as A Form of Life	Paper - By Subtopic	Retrieved from Academia.edu	17%
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 2 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 1 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Parsons (Josh)	Conceptual Conservatism and Contingent Composition	Paper - Cited	Website (Revised 11 Nov 2005)	No
Pittinger (Norman)	Christology Reconsidered	Book - By Subtopic	Pittinger (Norman) - Christology Reconsidered	5%
Pittinger (Norman)	'The Last Things' in a Process Perspective	Book - By Subtopic	Pittinger (Norman) - 'The Last Things' in a Process Perspective	8%
Pittinger (Norman)	'The Last Things' in a Process Perspective	Paper - By Subtopic	Pittinger (Norman) - 'The Last Things' in a Process Perspective	12%
Rescher (Nicholas)	Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy	Book - Cited	Rescher (Nicholas) - Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy	1%
Rescher (Nicholas)	Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy	Paper - By Subtopic	Rescher (Nicholas) - Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy	2%
Sauchelli (Andrea)	The animal, the corpse, and the remnant-person	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies: Published online on 20 April 2016	8%
Simons (Peter)	Processes and Precipitates	Paper - By Subtopic	Nicholson (Daniel J.) & Dupre (John), Eds. - Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology, 2018	8%
Steward (Helen)	Substances, Agents and Processes	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy 95, 2020, pp. 41-61	6%
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Process Metaphysics	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Trewavas (Anthony)	Aspects of Plant Intelligence	Paper - By Subtopic	Annals of Botany, 92, pp. 1–20, 2003	6%
Trewavas (Anthony)	Plant intelligence: Mindless mastery	Paper - By Subtopic	Nature, 415, p. 841, 2002	No
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Material Beings	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	27%
Van Inwagen (Peter)	The Special Composition Question	Paper - Cited	Van Inwagen - Material Beings; 1990; Ch. 2	No
Van Inwagen (Peter)	When are Objects Parts?	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 1, Metaphysics (1987), pp. 21-47	12%
Varela (Francisco J.)	Organism, Cognitive Science and the Emergence of Selfless Selves	Paper - By Subtopic	Revue européenne des sciences sociales , 1991, T. 29, No. 89, L'homme et la Société Dix ans après Piaget: VIIe colloque annuel du Groupe d'Etude "Pratiques Sociales et Théories" (1991), pp. 173-198	5%
Varela (Francisco J.) & Maturana (Humberto)	Mechanism and Biological Explanation	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy of Science , Sep., 1972, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Sep., 1972), pp. 378-382	17%
Vieira (Celso)	Which is more fundamental: processes or things?	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 06 November, 2017	Yes
Ward (Keith)	Review - Goff - Why? The Purpose of the Universe	Paper - Referencing	The Church Times, 12 January 2024	Yes
Whitehead (Alfred North)	Modes of Thought	Book - By Subtopic	Whitehead (Alfred North) - Modes of Thought	No
Whitehead (Alfred North)	Science and the Modern World	Book - By Subtopic	Whitehead (Alfred North) - Science and the Modern World	No

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