Ford, Lewis S.  “Whitehead on Subjective Agency: A Response to Edward Pols.”  The Modern  Schoolman  49 (Jan. 1972): 151-152.

Abstract

A brief concluding response to Pols' reflections on my critical study of his book, "Whitehead's Metaphysics, a Critical Examination of Process and Reality" (Southern Illinois University Press, 1967), which appeared in The Modern Schoolman 47/2 (January 1970), 209-225.  I welcome Pols' qualifications eliminating objectionable implications from the notion of genetic indivisibility, but press for genetic divisibility, defined as the capacity for being formally distinguished in terms of earlier and later genetic phases.  I question whether Pols can permit a shift in perspective in terms of conceiving the same actual occasion as both totally subject in concrescence and as totally superject in outcome. I deny that power must be either definite or determinate, and conceive creativity as the power which enables an actual occasion to become fully determinate.  [Abstract from The Philosopher’s Index]