Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics

Michel Weber

Published by De Gruyter 2006

Whitehead's Pancreativism

The Basics

Michel Weber

Volume 7 in the series Process Thought

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110330779

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There is one question that any potential reader who suspects that Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) might be important for past, contemporary, and future philosophy inevitably raises: how should I read Whitehead? How can I make sense of this incredibly dense tissue of imaginative systematizing, spread over decades of work in disciplines so different and specialized as algebra, geometry, logic, relativistic physics and philosophy of science? Accordingly, this monograph has two main complementary objectives. The first one is to propose a set of efficient hermeneutical tools to get the reader started. These straightforward tools provide answers that are highly coherent and probably the most applicable to Whitehead's entire corpus. The second objective is to illustrate how the several parts of Process and Reality are interconnected, something that all commentators have either failed to recognise or only incompletely acknowledged.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Foreword Nicholas Rescher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xix
I. Historico-Conceptual Context Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. The Intertwining of Science, Philosophy and Religion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
III. Process and Reality’s Goal and Method Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
IV. Creative Advance and Categoreal Scheme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
V. Pancreativism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
VI. Epochal Actuality and Types of Potentiality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
VII. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Analytic Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 22
- Main content: 255
Keywords: Alfred North; Whitehead

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110330779

Hardcover

Published: January 1, 2006
ISBN: 9783110330724