Weber Whitehead's Pancreativism

The Basics
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-033077-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 7, 277 Seiten

Reihe: Process Thought

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weber, Michel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophie der Physik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;ForewordNicholas Rescher;9
3;Introduction;10
4;I. Historico-ConceptualContext;22
5;II. The Intertwining ofScience, Philosophy andReligion;87
6;III. Process and Reality ’sGoal and Method;105
7;IV. Creative Advance andCategoreal Scheme;161
8;V. Pancreativism;204
9;VI. Epochal Actuality andTypes of Potentiality;233
10;VII. Conclusion;251
11;Bibliography;264