W. Mays

The Philosophy of Whitehead

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2002. This is Volume VII of seventeen in the Library of Philosophy series on Metaphysics. Written in 1959, after studying Whitehead's philosophy of applying mathematical logic to physical problems, the author's main purpose here is to illustrate the two principles upon which the Philosophy of Organism is based, (a) its logical or structural side, and (b) its physical-experiential side. Part I deals with (a) and Part II with (b).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9781138871069
• ISBN-10: 1138871060
• Artikelnr.: 42487847

Autorenporträt

W. Mays

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The Structure of Whitehead's Philosophy
Chapter 1 Speculative Philosophy
Chapter 2 Whitehead and Language
Chapter 3 Natural Theology
Chapter 4 The Realm of Eternal Objects
Chapter 5 The Algebraic Method
Chapter 6 The Extensive Continuum
Chapter 7 The Method of Extensive Abstraction
Part 2 The Dynamics of Whitehead's Philosophy
Chapter 8 The Theory of Prehensions
Chapter 9 Perception and Propositions
Chapter 10 Consciousness, Belief and Judgment
Chapter 11 Transmutation and Sense-Perception
Chapter 12 Sensory Perspectives
Chapter 13 Perceptual Causality, Time and Teleology
Chapter 14 Societies
Chapter 15 Physical Theory and the Philosophy of Organism
Chapter 16 Physical Theory in the Principle of Relativity
Chapter 17 Determinism and Free Will
Conclusion
Probability
The Multiple Location (or Inherence) Theory of Perception