Whitehead's pancreativism : the basics

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Whitehead's pancreativism : the basics

Michel Weber ; foreword by Nicholas Rescher

(Process thought, v. 7)

Ontos-Verlg, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-249)

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Volume

ISBN 9783110330724

Description

There is one question that any potential reader who suspects that Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) might be important for past, contemporary, and future philosophy inevitably raises: how should I read Whitehead? How can I make sense of this incredibly dense tissue of imaginative systematizing, spread over decades of work in disciplines so different and specialized as algebra, geometry, logic, relativistic physics and philosophy of science? Accordingly, this monograph has two main complementary objectives. The first one is to propose a set of efficient hermeneutical tools to get the reader started. These straightforward tools provide answers that are highly coherent and probably the most applicable to Whitehead's entire corpus. The second objective is to illustrate how the several parts of Process and Reality are interconnected, something that all commentators have either failed to recognise or only incompletely acknowledged.
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ISBN 9783938793152

Description

There is one question that any potential reader who suspects that Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) might be important for past, contemporary, and future philosophy inevitably raises: how should I read Whitehead? How can I make sense of this incredibly dense tissue of imaginative systematising, spread over decades of work in disciplines so different and specialised as algebra, geometry, logic, relativistic physics and philosophy of science? Accordingly, this monograph has two main complementary objectives. The first one is to propose a set of efficient hermeneutical tools to get the reader started. These straightforward tools provide answers that are highly coherent and probably the most applicable to Whitehead's entire corpus. The second objective is to illustrate how the several parts of Process and Reality are interconnected, something that all commentators have either failed to recognise or only incompletely acknowledged.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Historico-Conceptual Context
  • The Intertwining of Science, Philosophy and Religion
  • Process and Reality's Goal and Method
  • Creative Advance and Categoreal Scheme
  • Pancreativism
  • Epochal Actuality and Types of Potentiality
  • Conclusion.

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  • NCID
    BA83120910
  • ISBN
    • 9783938793152
    • 9783110330724
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Frankfurt [am Main ]
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxii, 255 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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