Essays in this volume have originally been published Includes bibliographical references and index Preface (2008) -- On being yourself (1968) -- Invitation to a philosophic revolution (1971) -- the temporality of divine freedom (1974) -- Philosophic understanding and the continuity of becoming (1978) -- Transmutation and Whitehead's elephant (1981) -- Coming around again in philosophy (1982) -- Impossible worlds (1983) -- God's choice : reflections on evil in a created world (1984) -- Whitehead's misconception of "substance" in Aristotle (1985) -- Intuition, event-atomism, and the self (1987) -- Faces of time (1987) -- Fatalism and truth about the future (1992) -- Relational realism and the great deception of sense (1994) -- Why possible worlds aren't (1996) -- Proposal for a Thomistic-Whiteheadian metaphysics of becoming (2000) -- Epochal time and the continuity of experience (2003) -- "Know yourself!" (2007)