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9780887069888

The Rehabilitation of Whitehead

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    9780887069888

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    0887069886

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1989-10-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Table of Contents

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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