Author: Donald F. Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The Notion of Time in the Cosmology of A.N. Whitehead
Author: Donald F. Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The Notion of Time in the Cosmology of A. N. Whitehead
Author: Donald F. Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Perception and Cosmology in Whitehead's Philosophy
Author: Paul Frederic Schmidt
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ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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The Epochal Nature of Process in Whitehead's Metaphysics
Author: F. Bradford Wallack
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873954549
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
While my book attempts to reflect the full range of scholarly debate, I have also attempted to make it useful to anyone interested in Whitehead. To this end, I have introduced the Whiteheadian terms one by one, explaining each in the light of my interpretation, and I have used examples wherever possible. I try to show that Whitehead intended his philosophy have a place in our lives by reshaping our common conceptions, and that he did not intend it to be relegated to purely abstract or esoteric application. F. Bradford Wallack The twentieth century has seen the greatest innovations in philosophical cosmology since Newton and Descartes, and Alfred North Whitehead was the first and greatest of the philosophers to work out these innovations in systematic ways. In a book that will be controversial in the philosophical community, F. Bradford Wallack argues that interpretations widely accepted by Whiteheadians need revaluation because these interpretations are based on materialist and substantialist assumptions that Whitehead sought to replace. Specifically, she proposes a thorough revision of accepted interpretations of Whiteheads concept of the actual entity. Wallack then elucidates Whiteheads ideas in order of their increasing dependence upon other basic Whiteheadian terms to complete the study of Whiteheadian time and to clarify its purpose within the cosmology of Process and Reality. Whiteheads philosophy then emerges as more intelligible and cohesive than is generally believed.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873954549
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
While my book attempts to reflect the full range of scholarly debate, I have also attempted to make it useful to anyone interested in Whitehead. To this end, I have introduced the Whiteheadian terms one by one, explaining each in the light of my interpretation, and I have used examples wherever possible. I try to show that Whitehead intended his philosophy have a place in our lives by reshaping our common conceptions, and that he did not intend it to be relegated to purely abstract or esoteric application. F. Bradford Wallack The twentieth century has seen the greatest innovations in philosophical cosmology since Newton and Descartes, and Alfred North Whitehead was the first and greatest of the philosophers to work out these innovations in systematic ways. In a book that will be controversial in the philosophical community, F. Bradford Wallack argues that interpretations widely accepted by Whiteheadians need revaluation because these interpretations are based on materialist and substantialist assumptions that Whitehead sought to replace. Specifically, she proposes a thorough revision of accepted interpretations of Whiteheads concept of the actual entity. Wallack then elucidates Whiteheads ideas in order of their increasing dependence upon other basic Whiteheadian terms to complete the study of Whiteheadian time and to clarify its purpose within the cosmology of Process and Reality. Whiteheads philosophy then emerges as more intelligible and cohesive than is generally believed.
Event Universe
Author: Leemon B. McHenry
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474404782
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead's theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as W. V. Quine. In this way, McHenry defends the naturalised and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474404782
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead's theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as W. V. Quine. In this way, McHenry defends the naturalised and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century.
Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy
Author: David Ray Griffin
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791480305
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Postmodern philosophy is often dismissed as unintelligible, self-contradictory, and as a passing fad with no contribution to make to the problems faced by philosophers in our time. While this characterization may be true of the type of philosophy labeled postmodern in the 1980s and 1990s, David Ray Griffin argues that Alfred North Whitehead had formulated a radically different type of postmodern philosophy to which these criticisms do not apply. Griffin shows the power of Whitehead's philosophy in dealing with a range of contemporary issues—the mind-body relation, ecological ethics, truth as correspondence, the relation of time in physics to the (irreversible) time of our lives, and the reality of moral norms. He also defends a distinctive dimension of Whitehead's postmodernism, his theism, against various criticisms, including the charge that it is incompatible with relativity theory.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791480305
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Postmodern philosophy is often dismissed as unintelligible, self-contradictory, and as a passing fad with no contribution to make to the problems faced by philosophers in our time. While this characterization may be true of the type of philosophy labeled postmodern in the 1980s and 1990s, David Ray Griffin argues that Alfred North Whitehead had formulated a radically different type of postmodern philosophy to which these criticisms do not apply. Griffin shows the power of Whitehead's philosophy in dealing with a range of contemporary issues—the mind-body relation, ecological ethics, truth as correspondence, the relation of time in physics to the (irreversible) time of our lives, and the reality of moral norms. He also defends a distinctive dimension of Whitehead's postmodernism, his theism, against various criticisms, including the charge that it is incompatible with relativity theory.
Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
Author: Michael Epperson
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823283062
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics would have on metaphysics. This ambitious book is the first extended analysis of the intricate relationships between relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and Whitehead's cosmology. Michael Epperson illuminates the intersection of science and philosophy in Whitehead's work-and details Whitehead's attempts to fashion an ontology coherent with quantum anomalies. Including a nonspecialist introduction to quantum mechanics, Epperson adds an essential new dimension to our understanding of Whitehead-and of the constantly enriching encounter between science and philosophy in our century.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823283062
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics would have on metaphysics. This ambitious book is the first extended analysis of the intricate relationships between relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and Whitehead's cosmology. Michael Epperson illuminates the intersection of science and philosophy in Whitehead's work-and details Whitehead's attempts to fashion an ontology coherent with quantum anomalies. Including a nonspecialist introduction to quantum mechanics, Epperson adds an essential new dimension to our understanding of Whitehead-and of the constantly enriching encounter between science and philosophy in our century.
Adventures of Ideas
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0029351707
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
History of the human race from the point of view of mankind's changing ideas--sociological, cosmological, philosophica.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0029351707
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
History of the human race from the point of view of mankind's changing ideas--sociological, cosmological, philosophica.
Physics of the World-Soul
Author: Matthew Segall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948609364
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948609364
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Principia Mathematica
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Publisher:
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Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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