Perspective in Whitehead's metaphysics

著者

• Ross, Stephen David

書誌事項

Perspective in Whitehead's metaphysics

Stephen David Ross

（SUNY series in systematic philosophy）

State University of New York Press, c1983

• : pbk

注記

Bibliography: p. 279-283

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Stephen David Ross presents an extensive, detailed, and critical interpretation of Whitehead's mature thought, emphasizing the fundamental role of perspective in Whitehead's cosmology, and tracing the conflicts and difficulties therein to tensions involving perspective in relation to other central features of Whitehead's thought. Ross isolates four principles as having a fundamental role in whitehead's metaphysics: perspective, cosmology, experience, and mechanical analysis. He argues that many of Whitehead's difficulties can be eliminated by raising the principle of perspective to prominence and by revising the other central features of Whitehead's theory accordingly. This book addresses key Whiteheadian texts and secondary interpretations of Whitehead. The discussion ranges over most of Whitehead's theory in Process and Reality, and offers a number of significant and, in some cases, novel views on different aspects of Whitehead's theory: perception, prehension, causation, objective immortality, self-causation, the extensive continuum, natural order, possiblity, concreteness, and God. Ross's concluding suggestions for modifying Whitehead's system promise to occasion much debate among process philosophers, theologians, and anyone concerned with Whitehead's thought.

目次

PREFACE 1. PERSPECTIVE 2. CAUSATION Causal Relations The Uniformity of Nature Natural Teleology Inductive Knowledge Causal Perception 3. FREEDOM Novelty Contingency Self-Causation Conceptual Reversion Subjective Aim The Ultimate Irrationality 4. EXPERIENCE General Considerations Mind and Body Perception Higher Experience Subjectivity and Anthropomorphism 5. KNOWLEDGE Propositions Truth Philosophical Knowedge 6. ORDER The Order of the Universe Social Order The Philosophy of Organism The Unity of the World 7. EXTENSION The Extensive Continuum Duration The Presented Duration Extensive Abstraction 8. REALITY Actuality Possibility Abstraction 9. GOD The Primordial Nature of God The Consequent Nature of God The Cosmological Status of God 10. SUMMARY AND EVALUATION WORKS CITED INDEX

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA14203826
• ISBN:
  • 0873956575
  • 0873956583
• LCCN: 82008332
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Albany
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 295 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : B1674.W354
  • DC19 : 110
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947 -- Contributions in metaphysics
  • LCSH : Metaphysics -- History -- 20th century
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA01109643