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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452825903321

Autore

Weber Michel

Titolo

Whitehead's pancreativism [[electronic resource] ] : the basics / / Michel Weber ; foreword by Nicholas Rescher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt ; ; New Brunswick, : Ontos Verlag, 2006

ISBN

3-11-033077-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Process Thought ; ; 7

Process thought ; ; v. 7

Altri autori (Persone)

RescherNicholas

Disciplina

170.922

Soggetti

Creative ability

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 -- Abbreviations -- Foreword / Rescher, Nicholas -- Introduction -- Notes -- I. Historico-Conceptual Context -- II. The Intertwining of Science, Philosophy and Religion -- III. Process and Reality's Goal and Method -- IV. Creative Advance and Categoreal Scheme -- V. Pancreativism -- VI. Epochal Actuality and Types of Potentiality -- VII. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Analytic Table of Contents -- Process Thought Series

Sommario/riassunto

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.