Explorations in Whitehead's Philosophy / / Lewis Ford, George Kline.

All the authors of the sixteen essays gathered in this volume are concerned, in their different ways, to clarify, criticize, and develop key ideas and insights of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), one of the towering figures of twentieth-century speculative thought, whose "process philosophy&...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (353 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
ABBREVIATIONS --
FOREWORD --
I. WHITEHEAD AS PHILOSOPHER --
1. Some Conversations with Whitehead Concerning God and Creativity --
2. Whitehead's Philosophical Response to the New Mathematics --
II. THE METAPHYSICS OF PROCESS --
3. Some Aspects of Whitehead's Metaphysics --
4. Freedom in Whitehead's Philosophy --
5. Being and Becoming in Whitehead's Philosophy --
6. Matter and Event --
7. Form, Concrescence, and Concretum --
III. CREATIVITY, RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, AND GOD --
8. Religion and Solitariness --
9. The Religious Availability of Whitehead's God: A Critical Analysis --
10. The Ultimacy of Creativity --
11. God and Creativity --
IV. SOME CONTRASTING INTERPRETATIONS --
12. Whitehead on the One and the Many --
13. Neville's Interpretation of Creativity --
14. On a Strain of Arbitrariness in Whitehead's System --
15. Ontological Primacy: A Reply to Buchler --
AFTERWORD. A Sampling of Other Interpretations --
INDEX
Summary:All the authors of the sixteen essays gathered in this volume are concerned, in their different ways, to clarify, criticize, and develop key ideas and insights of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), one of the towering figures of twentieth-century speculative thought, whose "process philosophy" has, in recent decades, aroused intense intellectual interest both in this country and abroad. The present volume is intended to complement, but not to duplicate, an earlier selection of important Whitehead studies, Alfred North Whitehead: Essays on His Philosophy, ed. G. L. Kline (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1963).
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780823295494
9783111189604
9783110743296
DOI:10.1515/9780823295494
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Lewis Ford, George Kline.