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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452724103321

Titolo

Subjectivity, process, and rationality [[electronic resource] /] / Michel Weber, Pierfrancesco Basile, (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2007

ISBN

3-11-032834-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

Process Thought ; ; 14

Process thought ; ; v. 14

Altri autori (Persone)

WeberMichel

BasilePierfrancesco

Disciplina

146.7

Soggetti

Process philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Process and Universals -- Process Philosophy and the Problem of Universals / Wiehl, Reiner -- Abstraction and Individuation in Whitehead and Wiehl: A Comparative Historical Approach / Weekes, Anderson -- II. Nature and Subjectivity -- Prehension / Cobb, John B. -- Whitehead, Hume and the Phenomenology of Causation / Basile, Pierfrancesco -- Subjectivity, System and Intersubjectivity / Bracken, Joseph A. -- Maxwell's Field and Whitehead's Events: The Adventure of a Revolutionary Idea / McHenry, Leemon B. -- III. Ethics and Civilization -- Morality and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts / Griffin, David Ray -- Can Specific Rules be Deduced from Moral Principles? / Lango, John W. -- Ethical Quantities / Rescher, Nicholas -- The Wand of the Enchanter / Allan, George -- Creativity, Efficacy and Vision: Ethics and Psychology in an Open Universe / Weber, Michel -- IV. Psychology and Phenomenology -- Truthfulness and Memory: Philosophical Notes on Trauma / Hampe, Michael -- Empathy and Reliability: Albert Fraenkel as seen by his Patients Hesse and Jaspers / Weidmann, Bernd -- On Gadamer, Phenomenology and Historical Relativism / Segev, Alon -- Max Scheler on Love and Hate: A Phenomenological Approach / Maaßen, Helmut -- About the Authors -- Analytical Table of Contents -- Process Thought Series



Sommario/riassunto

This volume gathers prominent international scholars to celebrate the complex legacy of Reiner Wiehl, whose work has been instrumental in bringing together the European tradition of prima philosophia as represented by Plato, Spinoza, Kant and Hegel, with the adventurous speculative renewal of the twentieth century by Alfred North Whitehead. Grouped into four sections (Process and Universals, Nature and Subjectivity, Ethics and Civilization, Psychology and Phenomenology) the fifteen papers collected in this book cover a range of topics which is as wide and as intertwined as Wiehl's own expertis