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| Preface | |
| Systematic Philosophy and the Rehabilitation of Whitehead | |
| Systematic Philosophy of the "Death of Philosophy" | |
| Systematic Philosophy as Public Philosophy | |
| The Relevance of Whitehead | |
| The Rehabilitation of Whitehead | |
| Philosophy Before Whitehead | |
| Evolution and the Emergence of Process Metaphysics | |
| On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life | |
| The Structure of Philosophic Revolutions | |
| Evolution and Revolution | |
| German Idealism and Romantic Naturphilosophie | |
| The Convergence of Post-Hegelian Idealism and Later Evolutionary Cosmology | |
| Summary | |
| Realism, Idealism, and the Development of Whitehead's Philosophy | |
| The Realist Revolt | |
| The Significance of Whitehead's Philosophy | |
| Concluding Summary | |
| Whitehead and the Historical Tradition | |
| Whitehead and Evolutionary Cosmologies | |
| The Importance of Evolutionary Cosmology | |
| Historical Reprise of Evolutionary Cosmology | |
| The Influence of Evolutionary Cosmology on Whitehead | |
| Whitehead's Philosophical Differences from Evolutionary Cosmology | |
| Whitehead's Distinctive Contributions to Speculative Metaphysics vis-a-vis Evolutionary Cosmology | |
| Conclusion | |
| Whitehead's Understanding of Kant | |
| Whitehead's Aversion to Idealism | |
| Whitehead and the Problem of Kant | |
| The Misappropriation of Kant | |
| Whitehead's Significant Innovations | |
| Conclusion | |
| Whitehead, Hegel, and the Philosophy of Nature | |
| Whitehead's Theory of Organic Mechanism | |
| Hegel's Philosophy of Nature | |
| The Later Discussion of Nature in Hegel's Encyclopedia | |
| Conclusion | |
| Whitehead and Russell | |
| Some Important Differences | |
| Some Important Similarities | |
| Substantive Philosophical Comparisons | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Future of Process Philosophy | |
| Analytic and Post-Analytic Themes in Whitehead's Metaphysics | |
| Whitehead's Exclusion from the Philosophic Mainstream | |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | |
| The Logic of Scientific Discovery | |
| Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature | |
| Possible Worlds | |
| Mind, Body, Agency, and Personal Identity | |
| The Reconception of Experience | |
| Recent Developments in Process Metaphysics | |
| Process Metaphysics and the Problem of Freedom | |
| Freedom and the Problem of Human Agency | |
| Freedom and Enduring Substance | |
| Substance, Causality, and Identity | |
| Theism and Naturalism | |
| The Causal Objectification of the Past | |
| Becoming and Being | |
| The Compositional Analysis of Whitehead's Writings | |
| Conclusion | |
| Philosophy of Science and Philosopy of Nature | |
| The Theory of Relativity | |
| Bell's Theorem and Causal Explanations in Quantum Mechanics | |
| David Bohm: Physics and the "Implicate Order" | |
| From Physics to a Systematic Philosophy of Nature | |
| Conclusion: The Future of Philsophy and of Process Philosophy | |
| Notes | |
| Index | |
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