ABSTRACT
This chapter extends discussion of naturalism that reclaims for the idea of nature a robust sense of possibility. It shows that there is nothing problematic about treating Whitehead's theory of possibility as belonging to a perfectly respectable philosophical naturalism. The chapter takes Whitehead's theories of "eternal objects" to satisfy the requirements of the delicate relation between existence and experience, but most of Whitehead's interpreters have difficulty understanding this part of his cosmology. It aims to show why the issue of the nature of possibility is the key to understanding the issue of negative prehension. The chapter also aims to liberate the Claremont School from a procrustean theological bed made from eiderdown they plucked from the works of Whitehead. It provides a roadmap for understanding a Whiteheadian God—a philosophical God-function that squares with Whitehead's view of possibility and actuality, and with the quantum of explanation.
