The Philosophy of WhiteheadRoutledge, 3 jun 2014 - 264 pagina's First published in 2002. This is Volume VII of seventeen in the Library of Philosophy series on Metaphysics. Written in 1959, after studying Whitehead’s philosophy of applying mathematical logic to physical problems, the author’s main purpose here is to illustrate the two principles upon which the Philosophy of Organism is based, (a) its logical or structural side, and (b) its physical-experiential side. Part I deals with (a) and Part II with (b). |
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Whitehead and Language | 53 |
The Realm of Eternal Objects | 74 |
The Method of Extensive Abstraction | 109 |
ABSTRACT OF PART II | 121 |
Perception and Propositions | 139 |
Sensory Perspectives | 172 |
Perceptual Causality Time and Teleology | 182 |
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