Process philosophy : a survey of basic issues / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Process philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as "process philosophy." Process philosophy views temporality, activity, and change as the cardinal factors for our understanding of the real-process has priority over product, both ontologically and epistemically. Rescher examines the movement's historical origins, reflecting a major line of thought in the work of such philosophers as Heracleitus, Leibniz, Bergson, Peirce, William James, and especially A. N. Whitehead. Reacting against the tendency to associate process philosophy too closely with this last-named thinker, Rescher writes, "Indeed, one cardinal task for the partisans of process at this particular juncture of philosophical history is to prevent the idea of 'process philosophy' from being marginalized through a limitation of its bearing to the work and influence of any one single individual or group." This book will appeal to both students and professors of philosophy. Those teachers who have not been trained in process philosophy will welcome this new text by one one of North America's foremost philosophers as a perspicuous and informative introduction.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1. The Promise of Process Philosophy

2. The Idea of Process

3. The Revolt against Process

4. Human Agency as Process

5. Cognitive Processes and Scientific Progress

6. The Cognitive Process and Metaphysical Realism

7. Process Philosophy and Historicist Relativism

8. Process Philosophy and Monadological Metaphysics

Notes

Name Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822973935

0822973936