Alfred North Whitehead : essays on his philosophy /

Alfred North Whitehead : essays on his philosophy /

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Imprint:Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, 1963.
Description:x, 214 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:A Spectrum book
Spectrum book.
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Whitehead, Alfred North, -- 1861-1947.
Whitehead, Alfred North, -- 1861-1947.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1386575
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Other authors / contributors:Kline, George L. (George Louis), 1921-2014, editor.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Synopsis: This volume's aim is to clarify, criticize and theoretically develop some of Whitehead's major philosophic ideas and insights. Eighteen distinguished contributors follow Whitehead in his unique attempt to integrate the often disparate concerns of science (including mathematics and mathematical logic), art, religion, social life and common sense. They manage to avoid the twin pitfalls of uncritical acceptance and impatient rejection of Whitehead's thought. They delineate Whitehead's indebtedness to and divergence from the philosophic traditions of Plato, Leibniz, Hume, Hegel, Bergson and others. Some of the distinguished philosophers contributing to this volume are: Charles Hartshorne, William Ernest Hocking, Richard M. Rorty, Gregory Vlastos, William A. Christian, Sr., Nathaniel Lawrence, Ivor Leclerc, Victor Lowe, Robert M. Palter, and Donald W. Sherburne.
Other form:Online version: Kline, George Louis, 1921- Alfred North Whitehead. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1963]
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / George L. Kline
  • Part 1 : Whitehead as man and thinker
  • Whitehead as I knew him / William Ernest Hocking
  • Whitehead's novel intuition / Charles Hartshorne
  • Part 2 : logic, mathematics, and methodology
  • Algebra of logic and the theory of deduction / Hugues Leblanc
  • Whitehead and mathematicism / Ralph V. Norman
  • Place of mathematics in Whitehead's philosophy / Robert M. Palter
  • Part 3 : metaphysics and cosmology
  • Whitehead's answer to Hume / J.W. Robson
  • Whitehead's answer to Hume: a reply / Mason W. Gross
  • Whitehead's theory of becoming / V.C. Chappell
  • Whitehead's theory of prehensions / Lucio Chiaraviglio
  • Whitehead's explanation of the past / William A. Christian
  • Of what use are Whitehead's eternal objects? / Everett W. Hall
  • Whitehead and the problem of extension / Ivor Leclerc
  • Concept of experience in Whitehead's metaphysics / Victor Lowe
  • Subjectivist principle and the linguistic turn / Richad M. Rorty
  • Organic categories in Whitehead / Gregory Vlastos
  • Part 4 : ethics, aesthetics, and philosophical theology
  • Vision of beauty and the temporality of deity in Whitehead's philosophy / Nathaniel Lawrence
  • Responsibility, punishment, and Whitehead's theory of the self / Donald W. Sherburne
  • Moral obligation in process philosophy / Daniel D. Williams
  • Part 5 : documents and materials
  • Unpublished letter from Whitehead to Hartshorne (1936)
  • Corrigenda for process and reality
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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