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Author : Timothy E. Eastman,Hank Keeton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0791459144
Leading scholars explore the connections between quantum physics and process philosophy.
Author : Timothy E. Eastman,Hank Keeton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780791485996
Featuring discussions and dialogue by prominent scientists and philosophers, this book explores the rich interface of contemporary physics and Whitehead-inspired process thought. The contributors share the conviction that quantum physics not only corroborates many of Whitehead's philosophical theses, but is also illuminated by them. Thus, though differing in perspective or emphasis, the contributions by Geoffrey Chew, David Finkelstein, Henry Stapp and other scientists conceptually dovetail with those of Philip Clayton, Jorge Nobo, Yutaka Tanaka and other process philosophers.
Author : Michael Epperson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823283064
In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics would have on metaphysics. This ambitious book is the first extended analysis of the intricate relationships between relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and Whitehead's cosmology. Michael Epperson illuminates the intersection of science and philosophy in Whitehead's work-and details Whitehead's attempts to fashion an ontology coherent with quantum anomalies. Including a nonspecialist introduction to quantum mechanics, Epperson adds an essential new dimension to our understanding of Whitehead-and of the constantly enriching encounter between science and philosophy in our century.
Author : Laurence Bright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Physics
ISBN : UCAL:B4244974
Author : Matthew Segall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948609363
Author : Leemon B. McHenry
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474404785
Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead's theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as W. V. Quine. In this way, McHenry defends the naturalised and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century.
Author : Ronald John Laurence BRIGHT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:557786108
Author : Alfred North Whitehead,Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 052106791X
The Principia Mathematica has long been recognised as one of the intellectual landmarks of the century.
Author : F. B. Wallack
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1980-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438423111
"While my book attempts to reflect the full range of scholarly debate, I have also attempted to make it useful to anyone interested in Whitehead. To this end, I have introduced the Whiteheadian terms one by one, explaining each in the light of my interpretation, and I have used examples wherever possible. I try to show that Whitehead intended his philosophy have a place in our lives by reshaping our common conceptions, and that he did not intend it to be relegated to purely abstract or esoteric application." — F. Bradford Wallack The twentieth century has seen the greatest innovations in philosophical cosmology since Newton and Descartes, and Alfred North Whitehead was the first and greatest of the philosophers to work out these innovations in systematic ways. In a book that will be controversial in the philosophical community, F. Bradford Wallack argues that interpretations widely accepted by Whiteheadians need revaluation because these interpretations are based on materialist and substantialist assumptions that Whitehead sought to replace. Specifically, she proposes a thorough revision of accepted interpretations of Whitehead's concept of the actual entity. Wallack then elucidates Whitehead's ideas in order of their increasing dependence upon other basic Whiteheadian terms to complete the study of Whiteheadian time and to clarify its purpose within the cosmology of Process and Reality. Whitehead's philosophy then emerges as more intelligible and cohesive than is generally believed.
Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Relativity (Physics)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
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Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Nature
ISBN : WISC:89055060990
The Tarner Lectures delivered in Trinity College November 1919.
Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781602062184
Following up on his two previous works, The Principles of Natural Knowledge and The Concept of Nature, Whitehead explains his alternative theory of relativity, which "cuts away the casual heterogeneity" of Einstein's later theory. Dividing his book into three parts--General Principles, Physical Applications, and Elementary Theory of Tensors--the author's arguments and observations utilize his own unique mix of nature, philosophy, and "the old division between physics and geometry." This work, first published in 1922, is essential reading for students, teachers, scientists, or anyone interested in the relationship of physics to philosophy. English mathematician and philosopher ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1861-1947) contributed significantly to 20th-century logic and metaphysics. With Bertrand Russell he cowrote the landmark Principia Mathematica, and also authored The Concept of Nature, The Function of Reason, and Process and Reality.
Author : Randall E. Auxier,Gary L. Herstein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351792486
The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries. Using a complete interpretation of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophical and mathematical writings and an interpretive structure that is essentially new, Auxier and Herstein argue that Whitehead has never been properly understood, nor has the depth and breadth of his contribution to the human search for knowledge been assimilated by his successors. This important book effectively applies Whitehead’s philosophy to problems in the interpretation of science, empirical knowledge, and nature. It develops a new account of philosophical naturalism that will contribute to the current naturalism debate in both Analytic and Continental philosophy. Auxier and Herstein also draw attention to some of the most important differences between the process theology tradition and Whitehead’s thought, arguing in favor of a Whiteheadian naturalism that is more or less independent of theological concerns. This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy and is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in American philosophy, the philosophy of mathematics and physics, and issues associated with naturalism, explanation and radical empiricism.
Author : Jorge Luis Nobo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438414805
At the base of Whitehead's philosophy of organism is a vision of the solidarity of all final actualities. Each actuality is a discrete individual enjoying autonomous self-determination, yet each also requires all other actualities as essential components and partial determinants of its own nature. This vision of universal solidarity, Nobo demonstrates, is the fundamental metaphysical thesis whose truth the categories and principles of Whitehead's philosophy were expressly designed to elucidate. The received interpretations of Whitehead's thought, Nobo shows, have ignored the mutual relevance of the solidarity thesis and the organic categoreal scheme and, for that reason, have grossly misrepresented many of Whitehead's most important metaphysical doctrines. Contending that the difficult tasks of interpreting and developing Whitehead's metaphysics presuppose an understanding of the solidarity thesis, Nobo explores that thesis and the metaphysical categories and principles most relevant to its elucidation. In the process, he not only corrects many misinterpretations but also develops important metaphysical doctrines that Whitehead neglected to make sufficiently explicit in his published writings. It is precisely in terms of the neglected doctrine of eternal extensive continuity, Nobo demonstrates, that the more puzzling aspects of the solidarity thesis are satisfactorily explained. He then shows that the extensional solidarity of all final actualities is an essential ingredient of the generalized conception of experience on which Whitehead builds his ontology, cosmology, and epistemology.
Author : F. Bradford Wallack
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1980-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0873954548
While my book attempts to reflect the full range of scholarly debate, I have also attempted to make it useful to anyone interested in Whitehead. To this end, I have introduced the Whiteheadian terms one by one, explaining each in the light of my interpretation, and I have used examples wherever possible. I try to show that Whitehead intended his philosophy have a place in our lives by reshaping our common conceptions, and that he did not intend it to be relegated to purely abstract or esoteric application. F. Bradford Wallack The twentieth century has seen the greatest innovations in philosophical cosmology since Newton and Descartes, and Alfred North Whitehead was the first and greatest of the philosophers to work out these innovations in systematic ways. In a book that will be controversial in the philosophical community, F. Bradford Wallack argues that interpretations widely accepted by Whiteheadians need revaluation because these interpretations are based on materialist and substantialist assumptions that Whitehead sought to replace. Specifically, she proposes a thorough revision of accepted interpretations of Whiteheads concept of the actual entity. Wallack then elucidates Whiteheads ideas in order of their increasing dependence upon other basic Whiteheadian terms to complete the study of Whiteheadian time and to clarify its purpose within the cosmology of Process and Reality. Whiteheads philosophy then emerges as more intelligible and cohesive than is generally believed.
