Whitehead's Pancreativism ：The Basics ( Process Thought )

Publication subTitle ：The Basics

Publication series ：Process Thought

Author： Michel Weber  

Publisher： De Gruyter‎

Publication year： 2006

E-ISBN: 9783110330779

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110330786

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Language： ENG

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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.

Chapter

Contents

pp.：  6 – 9

ForewordNicholas Rescher

pp.：  9 – 10

Introduction

pp.：  10 – 22

I. Historico-ConceptualContext

pp.：  22 – 87

II. The Intertwining ofScience, Philosophy andReligion

pp.：  87 – 105

III. Process and Reality ’sGoal and Method

pp.：  105 – 161

IV. Creative Advance andCategoreal Scheme

pp.：  161 – 204

V. Pancreativism

pp.：  204 – 233

VI. Epochal Actuality andTypes of Potentiality

pp.：  233 – 251

VII. Conclusion

pp.：  251 – 264

Bibliography

pp.：  264 – 279

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