过程哲学家们是受晚近数学家、哲学家艾尔弗雷德·诺思·怀特海哲学影响的国际性的学者和市民共同体的一部分。这个运动的绝大多数参与者生活在西方国家,但是在东亚、南亚、非洲和中东地区一些人正在成长起来。怀特海哲学为自然科学所深深塑造,但它与中国传统思维方式有很多类似之处。它把宇宙想象为一个有机的、进化的整体,在其中,所有事件 Process philosophers are part of an international community of scholars and citizens influenced by the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, a late mathematician and philosopher. The vast majority of participants in this movement live in Western countries, but some are growing in East Asia, South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Whitehead philosophy is deeply shaped by the natural sciences, but it has many similarities with the traditional Chinese way of thinking. It visualizes the universe as an organic, evolutionary whole, in which all events