The Metaphysics of Experience : A Companion to Whitehead's Process and Reality / Elizabeth Kraus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kraus, Elizabeth M., Author.

, NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Grant, Author.

Series:

American philosophy series.

American Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. Process and reality.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Cosmology.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 200 pages).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : Fordham University Press, 2018.

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Kraus Elizabeth : Elizabeth M. Kraus is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Fordham University.Elizabeth M. Kraus is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Fordham University.

Summary:

The Metaphysics of Experience styles itself as "a Sherpa guide to Process and Reality, whose function is to assist the serious reader in grasping the meaning of the text and to prevent falls into misinterpretation." Although originally published in 1925, Process and Reality has perhaps even more relevance to the contemporary scene in physics, biology, psychology, and the social sciences than it had in the mid-twenties. Hence its internal difficulty, its quasi-inaccessibility, is all the more tragic, since, unlike most metaphysical endeavors, it is capable of interpreting and unifying theories in the above sciences in terms of an organic world view, instead of selecting one theory as the paradigm and reducing all others to it. Because Alfred North Whitehead is so crucial to modern philosophy, The Metaphysics of Experience plays an important role in making Process and Reality accessible to a wider readership.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Note

Abbreviations

Foreword

Preface

1. Process Philosophy and Its Problems

2. Science and the Modern World as a Romantic Version of Process and Reality

3. The Speculative Scheme (PR, Part I)

4. Discussions and Applications (PR, Part II)

5. The Structure of a Concrescence (PR, Part ill)

6. The Theory of Extension (PR, Part IV)

7. God and the World (PR, Part V)

Bibliography

Indices

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8232-8517-0

OCLC:

1124771826