La science et le monde moderne d'Alfred North Whitehead : actes des Journées d'étude internationales tenues à l'Université catholique de Louvain, les 30-31 mai et 1 juin 2003 = Alfred North Whitehead's science and the modern world : proceedings of the Second International "Chromatiques whiteheadiennes" Conference / François Beets, Michel Dupuis et Michel Weber (éditeurs).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beets, François.

Dupuis, Michel.

Weber, Michel, 1963-

Series:

Chromatiques whiteheadiennes

Chromatiques whiteheadiennes ; 5

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Science--Philosophy--Congresses.

Science.

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947--Congresses.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (445 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos, 2006.

Language Note:

French

Summary:

The second international Chromatiques whiteheadiennes conference was devoted exclusively to the exegesis and contextualization of Whitehead's Science and the Modern World (1925). In order to elucidate the meaning and significance of this epoch-making work, the Proceedings are designed to form ""companion"" volume. With one paper devoted to each of its thirteen chapters, the Proceedings aim, on the one hand, to identify the specific contribution of each chapter to Whitehead's own research program - that is to say, to put its categories into perspective by means of an internal analysis- and, on

Contents:

Front matter

Sommaire / Contents

Contributors / Liste des auteurs

Avant-propos / Weber, Michel

Foreword / Weber, Michel

Lire Science and the Modern World / Beets, François

Introduction: A. N. Whitehead Natural Philosopher / Riche, Jacques

I. La science et le monde moderne / Science and the Modern World

1. Faits, ordre des choses et foi scientifique / Verley, Xavier

2. Mathematics and Philosophy / Grattan-Guinness, Ivor

3. Le sophisme du concret mal placé / Durand, Guillaume

4. The Organic Turn: From Simple Location to Complex (dis)Location / Weber, Michel

5. The Double Meaning of Whitehead's Notion of Romanticism / Vanzago, Luca

6. Whitehead and the Rise of Modern Science / Decock, Lieven

7. Relativité et interconnexité / Saint-Sernin, Bertrand

8. La théorie quantique / Counet, Jean-Michel

9. L'esprit, l'événement et le temps / Cassou-Noguès, Pierre

10. Degrés d'abstraction / Benmakhlouf, Ali

11. No Concretion without God / Oomen, Palmyre

12. Platonism at Work: Religion, Science, and the Hope of Rationalism / Heinemann, Gottfried

13. De l'esthétique à l'histoire. L'atéléologie des valeurs vives / Rodrigo, Pierre

II. Complementary Studies / Études complémentaire

1. A. N. Whitehead as Precursor of the New Theories of Self-Organization / Beaulieu, Alain

2. Idéalité et abstraction dans la dernière philosophie de Whitehead / Berne, Vincent

3. Le concept d'abruptness et son rapport au principe de translucency of realization / Breuvart, Jean-Marie

4. Poésie, ontologie et mathématiques. Whitehead quelque part entre Wordsworth et Shelley / Dumoncel, Jean-Claude

5. Abstraction, objet éternel et occurrence actuelle / Nef, Frédéric

6. Merleau-Ponty, lecteur de Whitehead. Le concept de nature, socle d'une pensée renouvelée de l'Être / Robert, Franck

7. Deleuze and Whitehead on the Concept of Reciprocal Determination / Williams, James

Bibliographies

Table des matières / Table of Contents

Collection « chromatiques whiteheadienne »

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-437).

ISBN:

3-11-032208-0

OCLC:

851971103