The Concept of Nature

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Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602062137
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis The Concept of Nature by : Alfred North Whitehead

Download or read book The Concept of Nature written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "one of the most valuable books on the relation of philosophy and science," Alfred North Whitehead's The Concept of Nature, first published in 1920, was an important contribution to the development of philosophic naturalism. Examining the fundamental problems of substance, space, and time, Whitehead assesses the impact of Einstein's theories as well as the then-recent findings of modern physics on the concept of nature. For students and teachers of natural philosophy, this is essential reading. English mathematician and philosopher ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1861-1947) contributed significantly to 20th-century logic and metaphysics. With Bertrand Russell he cowrote the landmark Principia Mathematica, and also authored An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, The Function of Reason, and Process and Reality.

Event Universe

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474404782
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Event Universe by : Leemon B. McHenry

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 262 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.

Principia Mathematica

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Principia Mathematica by : Alfred North Whitehead

Download or read book Principia Mathematica written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791480305
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy by : David Ray Griffin

Download or read book Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy written by David Ray Griffin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern philosophy is often dismissed as unintelligible, self-contradictory, and as a passing fad with no contribution to make to the problems faced by philosophers in our time. While this characterization may be true of the type of philosophy labeled postmodern in the 1980s and 1990s, David Ray Griffin argues that Alfred North Whitehead had formulated a radically different type of postmodern philosophy to which these criticisms do not apply. Griffin shows the power of Whitehead's philosophy in dealing with a range of contemporary issues—the mind-body relation, ecological ethics, truth as correspondence, the relation of time in physics to the (irreversible) time of our lives, and the reality of moral norms. He also defends a distinctive dimension of Whitehead's postmodernism, his theism, against various criticisms, including the charge that it is incompatible with relativity theory.

Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School

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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: Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School: Preempting the Problem of Intentionality proposes a revisionary history of the relationship between Alfred North Whitehead and analytic philosophy, as well as a constructive proposal for how thinking with Whitehead can help disabuse analytic philosophy of the problem of intentionality. Lisa Landoe Hedrick defines “analytic” philosophy as primarily the intellectual tradition that runs from Gottlob Frege to Bertrand Russell to Wilfrid Sellars, or, geographically speaking, from Vienna to Cambridge to Pittsburgh between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As key members of the Pittsburgh School of philosophy, Robert Brandom and John McDowell pick up the Sellarsian project of reconciling nature and normativity in different ways, yet each of them presupposes a problematic relationship between language and the world precisely bequeathed to them by an implicit metaphysics of subjecthood that characterized analytic thinkers of the early twentieth century. Hedrick both investigates Whitehead’s published and archived critiques of early analytic thought—as an extension of a wider critique of modern philosophy—and employs Whitehead to reimagine nature and normativity after the problem of intentionality by way of his aesthetics of symbolism. This book thereby builds upon a burgeoning effort among philosophers to interface process and analytic thought, but it is the first to focus on contemporary analytic thinkers.

Alfred North Whitehead's Early Philosophy of Space and Time

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Total Pages : 228 pages
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Book Synopsis Alfred North Whitehead's Early Philosophy of Space and Time by : Janet Anne Fitzgerald

Download or read book Alfred North Whitehead's Early Philosophy of Space and Time written by Janet Anne Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conclusion yielded by this three-stepped procedure is that, indeed, Whitehead's method of extensive abstraction from its origins in 1905 through its final, metaphysical appearance in Process and Reality, is a mathematical model. As such, Whitehead is cleared of many of the charges of his critics who claim that he used mathematical principles invalidly. The major issues of the Lenzen-Murphy, Grunbaum-Mays, Nagel-Lowe debates are thus satisfactorily resolved, and the worth of Whitehead's philosophy of space and time in the philosophy of science is recognized as a major contribution in bridging the gap between the level of sense observation and the level of theoretical science.

Process-Relational Philosophy

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Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599472082
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Book Synopsis Process-Relational Philosophy by : C. Robert Mesle

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 and Reality

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439118361
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Process and Reality by : Alfred North Whitehead

Download or read book Process and Reality written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy. Whitehead’s master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant. The ultimate edition of Whitehead’s magnum opus, Process and Reality is a standard reference for scholars of all backgrounds.

Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead

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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823223191
Total Pages : 279 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 2004-07-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extended analysis of the intricate relationships between relativity theory, quantum mechanics and Alfred North Whitehead's cosmology. Michael Epperson illuminates the intersection of science and philosophy in Whitehead's work.

An Introduction to Mathematics

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Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486821382
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Mathematics written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise volume for general students by prominent philosopher and mathematician explains what math is and does, and how mathematicians do it. "Lucid and cogent ... should delight you." — The New York Times. 1911 edition.

Aims of Education

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0029351804
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Aims of Education written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1967 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the texts of a series of lectures delivered between 1912 and 1928 on the purposes and practice of education.

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924-1925

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Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474464567
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (645 download)

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Book Synopsis The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924-1925 by : Paul A. Bogaard

Download or read book The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924-1925 written by Paul A. Bogaard and published by EUP. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume finally recreates the first philosophy lectures given by Alfred North Whitehead by transcribing notes and sketches by W. P. Bell, W. E. Hocking and Louise Heath taken at the time.

Physics of the World-Soul

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ISBN 13 : 9781948609364
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Book Synopsis Physics of the World-Soul by : Matthew Segall

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Science and the Modern World

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521800617
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Science and the Modern World written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1953 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific discovery. Taking readers through the history of modern science, Whitehead shows how cultural history has affected science over the ages in relation to such major intellectual themes as romanticism, relativity, quantum theory, religion, and movements for social progress.

A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226752933
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1981-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitehead's magnum opus is as important as it is difficult. It is the only work in which his metaphysical ideas are stated systematically and completely, and his metaphysics are the heart of his philosophical system as a whole. Sherburne has rearranged the text in a way designed to lead the student logically and coherently through the intricacies of the system without losing the vigor of Whitehead's often brilliant prose. "The Key renders Process and Reality pedagogically accessible for the first time."—Journal of Religion

Religion in the Making

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
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Book Synopsis Religion in the Making by : Alfred North Whitehead

Download or read book Religion in the Making written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: