On the Way to Theory: A Processual Approach
探讨了过程哲学中强调的“生成”本体论对理论构建的影响，认为理论不是对现实的表征，而是流动、运动和创造性的产物，并提出基于内省现实和直觉方法的过程性方法更适合揭示生成性现实。
Debates on theory have focused on the nature of good theories and the process of theorizing, but have failed to engage with the ontology of becoming emphasized by process philosophers such as Heraclitus, Bergson and James, and more recently by Cooper, Shotter and Chia. This paper argues that engaging with reality as becoming implies departing from any claims of `essence' in theories. Theories are not representations, better or worse, of a particular phenomenon, real or socially constructed. Instead, mobility, movement and creativity are the primordial qualities of theory. A becoming ontology also points to the non-sequential, imaginative and paradoxical `way' of theory-building. This paper argues that a processual approach which is reposed on introspective reality and the method of intuition is better suited to revealing a becoming reality.