The Relevance of Whitehead : Philosophical Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Alfred North Whitehead

Leclerc, Ivor

Routledge（2015/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 384 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138871045
• DDC分類 192.1

Full Description

This is Volume X of seventeen in a collection on Metaphysics. Originally published in 1994, this text looks at the relevance of Alfred North Whitehead with a collection of philosophical essays on his ideas. He was a scientist-a mathematician and physicist. Then, on the eve of his retirement as professor of applied mathematics in the University of London, at the age of 63, he commenced his second career, as professor of philosophy in Harvard University.

Contents

WHITEHEAD AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY; SOME USES OF REASON; SKETCH OF A PHILOSOPHY; METAPHYSICS AND THE MODALITY OF EXISTENTIAL JUDGMENTS; WHITEHEAD ON THE USES OF LANGUAGE; TIME, VALUE, AND THE SELF; FORM AND ACTUALITY; THE APPROACH TO METAPHYSICS; METAPHYSICS AS Scientia Universalis AND AS Ontologia Generalis; THE RELEVANCE OF ON MATHEMATICAL CON[1]CEPTS OF THE MATERIAL WORLD TO WHITEHEAD'S PHILOSOPHY; AESTHETIC PERCEPTION; THE RELEVANCE OF WHITEHEAD; IN DEFENCE OF THE HUMANISM OF SCIENCE: KANT AND WHITEHEAD; HISTORY AND OBJECTIVE IMMORTALITY; WHITEHEAD'S EMPIRICISM; DEITY, MONARCHY, AND METAPHYSICS: WHITE[1]HEAD'S CRITIQUE OF THE THEOLOGICAL TRADITION