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Event Universe

Author : Leemon B. McHenry
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474404782
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Event Universe written by Leemon B. McHenry and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead's theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as W. V. Quine. In this way, McHenry defends the naturalised and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century.

Whitehead’s Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics

Author : W. Mays
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401010854
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Whitehead’s Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics written by W. Mays and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science and Philosophy

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497675804
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Science and Philosophy written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a discussion of Einstein’s theories to an analysis of meaning, the philosopher offers a fascinating collection of essays on a wide range of topics. This is a collection of many of Whitehead’s papers that are scattered elsewhere. It was the penultimate book he published, and represents his mature thoughts on many topics. Philosophical Library has done a great service by publishing a representative collection of his writings on the subjects of Philosophy, Education and Science. The portion on Philosophy includes five papers: “Immortality”, “Mathematics and the Good”, “Process and Reality”, “John Dewey and His Influence” and the “Analysis of Meaning.” The first three chapters consist of Whitehead’s personal reflections illumined by flashes of his lively humor. They are picturesque and amusing. The remainder of the book consists of chapters on Philosophy, Education, and Science. They cover in depth his positions on many scientific and philosophical matters in an extraordinarily unified way. The final section of the book is devoted to excellent surveys of Geometry and Mathematics as well as a paper on Einstein’s theories.

Whitehead_ Organic Philosophy of Science

Author : Ann L. Plamondon
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873951661
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Whitehead_ Organic Philosophy of Science written by Ann L. Plamondon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work assumes that Leclerc has correctly interpreted the relationship of the earlier philosophy of science to the later philosophy of organism and that the "considerable change in Whitehead's theories about the problems of science" has yet to be elucidated. It is the purpose of the present work to set out passages from Whitehead's philosophy of organism in order to elaborate the philosophy of nature embodied in the metaphysics and to draw the implications of the metaphysics for present discussions in the philosophy of science.

Whitehead's Metaphysics of Extension and Solidarity

Author : Jorge Luis Nobo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438414803
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Whitehead's Metaphysics of Extension and Solidarity written by Jorge Luis Nobo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1986-06-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the base of Whitehead's philosophy of organism is a vision of the solidarity of all final actualities. Each actuality is a discrete individual enjoying autonomous self-determination, yet each also requires all other actualities as essential components and partial determinants of its own nature. This vision of universal solidarity, Nobo demonstrates, is the fundamental metaphysical thesis whose truth the categories and principles of Whitehead's philosophy were expressly designed to elucidate. 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. Contending that the difficult tasks of interpreting and developing Whitehead's metaphysics presuppose an understanding of the solidarity thesis, Nobo explores that thesis and the metaphysical categories and principles most relevant to its elucidation. In the process, he not only corrects many misinterpretations but also develops important metaphysical doctrines that Whitehead neglected to make sufficiently explicit in his published writings. It is precisely in terms of the neglected doctrine of eternal extensive continuity, Nobo demonstrates, that the more puzzling aspects of the solidarity thesis are satisfactorily explained. He then shows that the extensional solidarity of all final actualities is an essential ingredient of the generalized conception of experience on which Whitehead builds his ontology, cosmology, and epistemology.

Modes of Learning

Author : George Allan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438441894
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Modes of Learning written by George Allan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In Modes of Learning, George Allan brings these two sides of Whitehead's thought together for the first time in a book suitable for both those initially approaching Whitehead's metaphysics and experts alike. Allan develops a series of analogies between Whitehead's ideas about how we learn and key concepts in his later metaphysical writings, demonstrating that both how we learn and how the world changes involve a tension between open-ended exploration and systematic organization. Novel ideas free us from the blinders imposed by old habits and beliefs. Yet only when these ideas are integrated with the old ways are we able to improve our individual and collective lives—until changing circumstances call for further new ideas and fresh integrations. Using a rich variety of examples, Allan illuminates the metaphysical ideas he explores by tethering them concretely to the educational practices in which they are rooted. This shows a key but neglected feature of Whitehead's thought: his pragmatic theory of truth, with its functionalist approach to experience and its humanistic appreciation of the frailty of all human endeavors.

Principia Mathematica

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principia Mathematica written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead

Author : Michael Epperson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823283062
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead by : Michael Epperson

Download or read book Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead written by Michael Epperson and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics would have on metaphysics. This ambitious book is the first extended analysis of the intricate relationships between relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and Whitehead's cosmology. Michael Epperson illuminates the intersection of science and philosophy in Whitehead's work-and details Whitehead's attempts to fashion an ontology coherent with quantum anomalies. Including a nonspecialist introduction to quantum mechanics, Epperson adds an essential new dimension to our understanding of Whitehead-and of the constantly enriching encounter between science and philosophy in our century.

The Metaphysics of Experience

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Experience written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysics of Experience styles itself as "a Sherpa guide to Process and Reality, whose function is to assist the serious reader in grasping the meaning of the text and to prevent falls into misinterpretation." Although originally published in 1925, Process and Reality has perhaps even more relevance to the contemporary scene in physics, biology, psychology, and the social sciences than it had in the mid-twenties. Hence its internal difficulty, its quasi-inaccessibility, is all the more tragic, since, unlike most metaphysical endeavors, it is capable of interpreting and unifying theories in the above sciences in terms of an organic world view, instead of selecting one theory as the paradigm and reducing all others to it. Because Alfred North Whitehead is so crucial to modern philosophy, The Metaphysics of Experience plays an important role in making Process and Reality accessible to a wider readership.

Whitehead and the Modern World

Author : Victor Lowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Whitehead and the Modern World written by Victor Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924-1925

Author : Paul A. Bogaard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474401856
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924-1925 written by Paul A. Bogaard and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents Whiteheads lectures at Harvard during the 19245 academic year: the first philosophy lectures he ever gaveBeginning in September of 1924, Alfred North Whitehead presented a regular course of 85 lectures which concluded in May of 1925. These represent the first ever philosophy lectures he gave and capture him working out the philosophical implications of the remarkable turns physics had taken in his lifetime. This volume finally recreates these lectures by transcribing notes by W. P. Bell, W. E. Hocking and Louise Heath taken at the time many of which have only recently been discovered and including hundreds of sketches of Whitehead's blackboard diagrams. This is a unique insight into the evolution of Whiteheads thought during the months when he was drafting his seminal work, Science and the Modern World. Includes transcriptions of the lecture notes, a chronology, over 300 line drawings of Whiteheads blackboard sketches, a bibliography of referenced works and an index to the lecturesGives an overview of the content of the 85 lecturesClarifies how these lectures represent Whiteheads philosophical insightsDescribes the circumstances that preserved the three sets of notes

The Emergence of Whitehead's Metaphysics, 1925-1929

Author : Lewis S. Ford
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438402996
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Whitehead's Metaphysics, 1925-1929 written by Lewis S. Ford and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1985-06-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking detective story, this book charts the adventure of Whitehead's ideas in a remarkably detailed and careful reconstruction of his metaphysical views. Incorporating heretofore unpublished material from students' notes and correspondence, Professor Ford analyzes the order of composition of various portions of Whitehead's books, principally Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and Reality. Ford's reconstructive method is perfectly tailored to his subject, for Whitehead revised by inserting new material rather than altering or deleting the old. Thus Ford is able to date the sequence of the composition of many passages. In distinguishing these layers of articulation, he has pushed the techniques of "higher criticism" beyond anything the French structuralists and deconstructionists have dreamed of and chronicled an extraordinary intellectual biography.

Adventures of Ideas

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0029351707
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Adventures of Ideas written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1933 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the human race from the point of view of mankind's changing ideas--sociological, cosmological, philosophica.

The Concept of Nature

Author : A. N. Whitehead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Nature written by A. N. Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School

Author : Lisa Landoe Hedrick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793646589
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School by : Lisa Landoe Hedrick

Download or read book Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School written by Lisa Landoe Hedrick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates Alfred North Whitehead's critiques of analytic philosophy in early nineteenth-century Cambridge and examines the ways in which those critiques both anticipate the problem of intentionality and inform contemporary efforts to resolve it—specifically those of the Pittsburgh School.

Process-Relational Philosophy

Author : C. Robert Mesle
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599472082
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Process-Relational Philosophy written by C. Robert Mesle and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process thought is the foundation for studies in many areas of contemporary philosophy, theology, political theory, educational theory, and the religion-science dialogue. It is derived from Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy, known as process theology, which lays a groundwork for integrating evolutionary biology, physics, philosophy of mind, theology, environmental ethics, religious pluralism, education, economics, and more. In Process-Relational Philosophy, C. Robert Mesle breaks down Whitehead's complex writings, providing a simple but accurate introduction to the vision that underlies much of contemporary process philosophy and theology. In doing so, he points to a "way beyond both reductive materialism and the traps of Cartesian dualism by showing reality as a relational process in which minds arise from bodies, in which freedom and creativity are foundational to process, in which the relational power of persuasion is more basic than the unilateral power of coercion." Because process-relational philosophy addresses the deep intuitions of a relational world basic to environmental and global thinking, it is being incorporated into undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy, educational theory and practice, environmental ethics, and science and values, among others. Process-Relational Philosophy: A Basic Introduction makes Whitehead's creative vision accessible to all students and general readers.

Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols

Author : M. Code
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597041
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols written by M. Code and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following A. N. Whitehead, this book takes up the principal challenge facing a natural philosopher who wishes to engage with Nature while rescuing both Life and Thought from materialistic approaches which rob them of their 'quicknesses'. Selecting certain insights and intuitions from the writings of Peirce, Coleridge, Deleuze and Nietzsche, the author proffers a remedy for the pervasive nihilism of 'the moderns' which illustrates Deleuze's suggestion that philosophy should be imaged as a dynamic collage that is forever in the making.