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This volume addresses the sudden interest, across a range of disciplines, in Alfred North Whitehead's speculative philosophy. Among its fifteen contributions are essays on metaphysics, philosophy of science, digital art, sociology, computer software design, artificial life, and Whitehead's...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Gaskill, Nicholas, 1981- (Editor), Nocek, A. J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Whitehead, Alfred North, > 1861-1947.
Whitehead, Alfred North, > 1861-1947
Philosophy.
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Philosophy & Religion.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I. Speculation beyond the Bifurcation
  • 1. A Constructivist Reading of Process and Reality
  • 2. Scientism and the Modern World
  • 3. What Is the Style of Matters of Concern
  • 4. The Technics of Prehension
  • II. The Metaphysics of Creativity
  • 5. Whitehead's Involution of an Outside Chance
  • 6. Multiplicity and Mysticism
  • 7. The Event and the Occasion
  • 8. Whitehead and Schools X, Y, and Z
  • 9. Whitehead's Curse?
  • 10. Cutting Away from Smooth Space
  • III. Process Ecology
  • 11. Possessive Subjects
  • 12. Another Regard
  • 13. Of "Experiential Togetherness
  • 14. The Order of Nature and the Creation of Societies
  • 15. Imaginative Chemistry
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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