Llewellyn, Robert R.  “Whitehead and Newton on Space and Time Structure.”  Process Studies 3. no. 4 (Winter 1973):  239-258

Abstract

Whitehead’s view of space-time is midway between the “relational” and “absolutist” positions.  Whitehead’s theory is relational with regard to the fundamental nature of space-time and absolutist with regard to a structure exhibited within and sustained by the extensional relations of events.