Process Before Events: An Ontology of Motion and Spacetime

This paper develops a process ontology of spacetime grounded in the primacy of motion. Standard interpretations of relativity are commonly understood in terms of a four-dimensional manifold of events, with motion represented by world-lines connecting temporally ordered event-points. Although mathematically and empirically successful, this framework encourages an event-based metaphysics in which motion is derivative and temporal becoming plays no fundamental ontological role.