Didier Debaise

Speculative Empiricism (eBook, ePUB)

Revisiting Whitehead
Übersetzer: Weber, Tomas Joseph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Can experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconciled with a method of systematic cosmological speculation? Didier Debaise's reading of Process and Reality shows clearly what a philosophy that makes this possible looks like, how it works and what is at stake. He focuses in on Whitehead's attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience: everything enjoyed and perceived, willed or thought. In this way, Debaise illustrates how Whitehead's philosophy gives us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474423076
• Artikelnr.: 54674528

Autorenporträt

Didier Debaise is Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy at the Free University of Brussels.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Preface
Preface by Isabelle Stengers
Introduction
Part I: Speculative Philosophy: Method And Function
What is Speculative Philosophy?
Creativity as Ultimate Principle
Actualising Creativity
Part II: The Speculative Approach To Existence: Process and Individuation
What is a Process of Individuation?
What is the Subject?
Realisation of Self and Power
Pure Potentiality and Actuality
Temporal Dimensions of Actual Entities
Part III: Experiences And Societies: Thinking Nature
A Universe of Societies
The Mode of Existence of Societies
Nature and Societies
Conclusion: What is Speculative Empiricism?
Works Cited