Explorations in Whitehead's Philosophy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Lewis.

Contributor:

Kline, George.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages)

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Fordham University Press, 1983.

Summary:

All the authors of the sixteen essays gathered in this volume are concerned, in their different ways, to clarify, criticize, and develop key ideas and insights of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), one of the towering figures of twentieth-century speculative thought, whose "process philosophy" has, in recent decades, aroused intense intellectual interest both in this country and abroad. The present volume is intended to complement, but not to duplicate, an earlier selection of important Whitehead studies, Alfred North Whitehead: Essays on His Philosophy, ed. G. L. Kline (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1963).

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

FOREWORD

I. WHITEHEAD AS PHILOSOPHER

1. Some Conversations with Whitehead Concerning God and Creativity

2. Whitehead's Philosophical Response to the New Mathematics

II. THE METAPHYSICS OF PROCESS

3. Some Aspects of Whitehead's Metaphysics

4. Freedom in Whitehead's Philosophy

5. Being and Becoming in Whitehead's Philosophy

6. Matter and Event

7. Form, Concrescence, and Concretum

III. CREATIVITY, RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, AND GOD

8. Religion and Solitariness

9. The Religious Availability of Whitehead's God: A Critical Analysis

10. The Ultimacy of Creativity

11. God and Creativity

IV. SOME CONTRASTING INTERPRETATIONS

12. Whitehead on the One and the Many

13. Neville's Interpretation of Creativity

14. On a Strain of Arbitrariness in Whitehead's System

15. Ontological Primacy: A Reply to Buchler

AFTERWORD. A Sampling of Other Interpretations

INDEX

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ISBN:

0-8232-9549-4

OCLC:

1309037330