Tez, Mesut (2026) Rethinking Cancer: Process Ontology, Creativity, and Cancer as a Chaotic Concrescence. Philosophy of Medicine, 7 (1). pp. 1-5. ISSN 2692-3963

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Abstract

This article redefines cancer through Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy. Challenging models that frame cancer as a genetic error or stochastic mutation, I draw on Whitehead’s principle that “creativity is the ultimate causality.” Cancer thus emerges as a chaotic creative process: a concrescence wherein cells, dissociated from the organism’s integrated social order, construct a new relational nexus, guided by a deviant subjective aim. This framework explains therapy resistance, heterogeneity, and metastasis, and suggests therapeutic strategies should redirect pathological creativity, rather than target static entities.

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Tez, Mesut mesuttez@yahoo.com 0000-0001-5282-9492
Keywords:	Process philosophy, Cancer ontology
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Medicine
Depositing User:	Professor Alex Broadbent
Date Deposited:	05 May 2026 13:40
Last Modified:	05 May 2026 13:40
Item ID:	29464
Journal or Publication Title:	Philosophy of Medicine
Publisher:	University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
Official URL:	https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/279
DOI or Unique Handle:	10.5195/pom.2026.279
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Medicine
Date:	28 April 2026
Page Range:	pp. 1-5
Volume:	7
Number:	1
ISSN:	2692-3963
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29464

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