Abstract

Philosophical Mysteries is one of a series developing a systematic philosophy of orders and the categories called “Ordinal Pluralism.” To consider it in depth it should be separated neither from its predecessor Transition to an Ordinal Metaphysics nor from its successor Perspective in Whitehead’s Metaphysics. Yet a review cannot enter into the details of Ross’s whole program, nor its exact dependence on that of Justus Buchler’s Metaphysics of Natural Complexes and other interpretations of Buchler’s admirable contribution, such as Beth Singer’s Ordinal Naturalism.