Ford, Lewis S.  “Kirkpatrick on Subjective Becoming.”  Process Studies  4 (Spring 1974): 37-41.

Abstract

Frank Kirkpatrick in Process Studies 3:15-26 charges that Whitehead tries to retain language appropriate only to a subject for a process which is not yet a subject but only becoming a subject.  Applying Ivor Leclerc's analysis of compound substance in "the nature of physical existence" (humanities press, 1972), 284-313, I respond that subjective unity is not the determinate unity of a being but the unity of reciprocal activity among many actings combining into one single act.  Contrary to Leclerc, such reciprocal activity requires a common ideal aimed at which brings that activity forward to a final, determinate, superjective unity. [Abstract from The Philosopher’s Index]