The relevance of Whitehead ; philosophical essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Alfred North Whitehead.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leclerc, Ivor, editor.

Series:

Muirhead library of philosophy

The Muirhead library of philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

383 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Allen & Unwin ; New York : Macmillan, [1961]

Contents:

Whitehead and contemporary philosophy, by C. Hartshorne.

Some uses of reason, by W. A. Christian.

Sketch of a philosophy, by F. B. Fitch.

Metaphysics and the modality of existential judgements, by C. Hartshorne.

Whitehead on the uses of language, by A. H. Johnson.

Time, value, and the self, by N. Lawrence.

Form and actuality, by I. Leclerc.

The approach to metaphysics, by V. Lowe.

Metaphysics as Scientia universalis and as Ontologia generalis, by G. Martin.

The relevance of "On mathematical concepts of the material world" to Whitehead's philosophy, by W. Mays.

Aesthetic perception, by E. Schaper.

In defence of the humanism of science; Kant and Whitehead, by H. Wein.

History and objective immortality, by P. Weiss.

Whitehead's empiricism, by W. P. D. Wightman.

Deity, monarchy, and metaphysics; Whitehead's critique of the theological tradition, by D. D. Williams.

Notes:

Bibliographical footnotes.

OCLC:

4658005