Subjectivity, process, and rationality / Michel Weber, Pierfrancesco Basile, (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weber, Michel.

Basile, Pierfrancesco.

Series:

Process Thought

Process thought ; v. 14

Process Thought ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Process philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume gathers prominent international scholars to celebrate the complex legacy of Reiner Wiehl, whose work has been instrumental in bringing together the European tradition of prima philosophia as represented by Plato, Spinoza, Kant and Hegel, with the adventurous speculative renewal of the twentieth century by Alfred North Whitehead. Grouped into four sections (Process and Universals, Nature and Subjectivity, Ethics and Civilization, Psychology and Phenomenology) the fifteen papers collected in this book cover a range of topics which is as wide and as intertwined as Wiehl's own expertis

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

I. Process and Universals

Process Philosophy and the Problem of Universals / Wiehl, Reiner

Abstraction and Individuation in Whitehead and Wiehl: A Comparative Historical Approach / Weekes, Anderson

II. Nature and Subjectivity

Prehension / Cobb, John B.

Whitehead, Hume and the Phenomenology of Causation / Basile, Pierfrancesco

Subjectivity, System and Intersubjectivity / Bracken, Joseph A.

Maxwell's Field and Whitehead's Events: The Adventure of a Revolutionary Idea / McHenry, Leemon B.

III. Ethics and Civilization

Morality and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts / Griffin, David Ray

Can Specific Rules be Deduced from Moral Principles? / Lango, John W.

Ethical Quantities / Rescher, Nicholas

The Wand of the Enchanter / Allan, George

Creativity, Efficacy and Vision: Ethics and Psychology in an Open Universe / Weber, Michel

IV. Psychology and Phenomenology

Truthfulness and Memory: Philosophical Notes on Trauma / Hampe, Michael

Empathy and Reliability: Albert Fraenkel as seen by his Patients Hesse and Jaspers / Weidmann, Bernd

On Gadamer, Phenomenology and Historical Relativism / Segev, Alon

Max Scheler on Love and Hate: A Phenomenological Approach / Maaßen, Helmut

About the Authors

Analytical Table of Contents

Process Thought Series

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-938793-38-4

3-11-032834-8

OCLC:

851971039