Adventures in unfashionable philosophy / James W. Felt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Felt, James W., 1926-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Philosophy, Modern.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adventures in Unfashionable Philosophy contains essays that address fundamental philosophical problems in the spirit of traditional metaphysics but updated with modern concerns.

Contents:

Preface (2008)

On being yourself (1968)

Invitation to a philosophic revolution (1971)

the temporality of divine freedom (1974)

Philosophic understanding and the continuity of becoming (1978)

Transmutation and Whitehead's elephant (1981)

Coming around again in philosophy (1982)

Impossible worlds (1983)

God's choice : reflections on evil in a created world (1984)

Whitehead's misconception of "substance" in Aristotle (1985)

Intuition, event-atomism, and the self (1987)

Faces of time (1987)

Fatalism and truth about the future (1992)

Relational realism and the great deception of sense (1994)

Why possible worlds aren't (1996)

Proposal for a Thomistic-Whiteheadian metaphysics of becoming (2000)

Epochal time and the continuity of experience (2003)

"Know yourself!" (2007).

Notes:

Essays in this volume have originally been published.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268079673

0268079676

OCLC:

694144524