Whitehead's Pancreativism The Basics
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Michel Weber
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Whitehead's Pancreativism The Basics
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110330779
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Process ThoughtISSN
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1
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CHF 123.80
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20. und 21. Jahrhundert
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English
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277
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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.
Contents
6
ForewordNicholas Rescher
9
Introduction
10
I. Historico-ConceptualContext
22
II. The Intertwining ofScience, Philosophy andReligion
87
III. Process and Reality ’sGoal and Method
105
IV. Creative Advance andCategoreal Scheme
161
V. Pancreativism
204
VI. Epochal Actuality andTypes of Potentiality
233
VII. Conclusion
251
Bibliography
264
