| Title | : | Whitehead's Metaphysics: An Introductory Exposition. |
| Author | : | Ivor LeClerc. |
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| Title | : | Whitehead's Metaphysics: An Introductory Exposition. |
| Author | : | Ivor LeClerc. |
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Alfred north whitehead is a major figure in the development of process philosophy because he proposes a metaphysical understanding of the nature of things that emphasizes their radical temporality.
The art of becoming veitch chapter 7 truth and reality in whitehead’s metaphysics glen veitch this paper seeks to challenge the idea of a determinate, singular reality within the philosophy of alfred north whitehead.
The received interpretations of whitehead’s thought, nobo shows, have ignored the mutual relevance of the solidarity thesis and the organic categoreal scheme and, for that reason, have grossly misrepresented many of whitehead’s most important metaphysical doctrines.
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.
A highly accessible reading of whitehead's writings on education and their connection to his metaphysics. Educators are familiar with alfred north whitehead’s three stages of education: romance, precision, and generalization. Philosophers are familiar with his metaphysical theories about the primacy of temporal processes.
Whitehead, on the other hand, offered a radical conceptual realignment grounded in a new metaphysics. Wittgenstein might have viewed the new metaphysics as a radically new language game, but one bound to come up against the limits inherently posed by its own categorizations.
Whitehead’s metaphysics is especially constructed with reference to the emerging objective scientific worldview, but not to the neglect of subjective human experience. Indeed, the metaphysics is such that the normal uses of the terms subjective and objective no longer apply.
Jul 11, 2018 in this manuscript i widen the interpretive parameters of alfred north whitehead's thought in an effort to make his philosophy more readily.
Whitehead's philosophy is of perennial scholarly interest as one of the relatively few really serious attempts at a systematic metaphysics.
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Nov 7, 2019 alfred north whitehead's (1861–1947) philosophy of organism offers an important, indeed fundamental, metaphysical doctrine.
The joy of being alive in an exuberant, music-making universe the most radical idea in whitehead's philosophy is not that everything is present in everything.
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Whitehead's metaphysics; a critical examination of process and reality. Publication date 1967 topics whitehead, alfred north, 1861-1947.
Introduces the reader to whitehead's complex and often misunderstood metaphysics by showing that it deals with questions about the nature of causation.
A breathtaking detective story, this book charts the adventure of whitehead's ideas in a remarkably detailed and careful reconstruction of his metaphysical views.
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This examination involves: first, an explication of whitehead's cosmology and metaphysics and their ostensibly platonic elements.
Alfred north whitehead (1861–1947) was a british mathematician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and the philosophy of science. In collaboration with bertrand russell, he co-authored the landmark three-volume principia mathematica (1910, 1912, 1913).
In terms of current philosophical classifications, whitehead is an exponent of ‘process philosophy’. Philosophical denominations are difficult to pin down to a precise definition, but in this case there is a clear-cut criterion for distinguishing between process and non-process thinkers.
Whitehead's metaphysics: an introductory exposition by ivor leclerc - hardcover. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears.
His father, an anglican clergyman, had a keen interest in education.
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Whitehead's most far-reaching and radical contribution to metaphysics is his invention of a better way of choosing the actual entities. Whitehead chooses a way of defining the actual entities that makes them all alike, qua actual entities, with a single exception.
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Within whitehead's metaphysics, this introduction also seeks to acquaint the reader with reasons for the birth and development of whitehead's process thought. In the first place, it gives a general introduction to some of the major differences between process thought and traditional substance metaphysics.
3whitehead's philosophy of organism would not have been created were it not for an analysis of the relations between the self and world.
Jul 23, 2017 an overview of alfred north whiteheads process metaphysics. It isn't a complete explanation of his categories but it is the main ideas.
By tackling these questions, pierfrancesco basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts of whitehead’s process metaphysics – especially the crucial notion that being and power are one and the same – and appreciate the complex way this is rooted in the modern philosophical tradition.
Christian's, in short, is a book primarily for the whitehead specialist, one who knows the texts and even something of the scholarly controversies that have grown up about their inter pretation. Leclerc, on the other hand, has aimed his book at those with little knowledge of whitehead's.
Whitehead's metaphysics contains an accurate portrayal of concrete human existence - one which can serve as a ground for criticizing the abstractions into which liberalism has fallen. His critical individualism, his insistence both on the individual as the seat of all value and on our essential connectedness to one another in modern society, is a call for liberalism to restore concrete meaning.
Whitehead's relevance to transpersonal thoughtalfred north whitehead, an english mathematician and philosopher, is probably best known as the coauthor of principia mathematica with bertrand russell. His major work, process and reality, was written in 1929 during his tenure as a philosophy professor at harvard university (1924university (to 1937.
It was during this time that he worked primarily on issues in metaphysics.
Whitehead's metaphysics for being obscure, yet several such philosophers have espoused positions.
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Whitehead turned to metaphysics precisely because the early 20th century revolutions in physics had revealed the complete inadequacy of the old substantivist, mechanistic ontology that modern science had been presupposing since descartes. He wrote in 1925: “the old foundations of scientific thought are becoming unintelligible.
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Alfred north whitehead's political theory and philosophy of civilization were written in light of his metaphysics.
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