Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy (Suny Series in Phil

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Book Title
Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy (Suny
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Intended Audience
Adult
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9780791428184
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Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10
0791428184
ISBN-13
9780791428184
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1028947

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
224 Pages
Publication Name
Process Metaphysics : an Introduction to Process Philosophy
Language
English
Subject
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General, History & Surveys / Modern
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy
Author
Nicholas Rescher
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
95-008784
Reviews
"In this book, one of the nation's most literate, prolific, and respected philosophers brings his considerable analytic skills to bear on process philosophy. It is over 30 years since a philosopher of such national and international stature has chosen to focus on the main issues of this extensive but neglected philosophical school. Earlier evaluations of process philosophy by Strawson, Rorty, and Grünbaum, moreover, were partial, selective, and often rested upon serious misunderstandings. By contrast, Rescher aims at a comprehensive, fair, and impartial treatment of the main problems in analytic metaphysics, including now-standard problems in logic, language, and epistemology, to which a process-oriented approach offers substantive insights. Rescher offers a calm, thoughtful, and open-minded analysis of problems such as personhood and personal identity, the status of universals and particulars, our understanding of nature and of biological and cultural evolution, and brief discussions of philosophical approaches to the nature of scientific inquiry itself and to theology that coordinate the insights of process philosophy and with the work of many leading contemporary anglo-American philosophers. "This is a masterly treatment and a monumental achievement, resulting in an eminently readable introduction and survey for specialists and a useful and instructive outline for students." -- George R. Lucas, Jr., Georgetown University
Dewey Edition
20
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
146/.7
Table Of Content
Preface Introduction 1. Historical Background 1. Prospect 2. Heraclitus (6th Century B.C.) 3. Plato and Aristotle 4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1717) 5. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) 6. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) 7. William James (1842-1910) 8. Henri Bergson (1859-1941) 9. John Dewey (1859-1952) 10. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) 11. Wilmon H. Shelfon (1875-1981) 12. Retrospect 2. Basic Ideas 1. The Process Approach and Its Alternatives 2. Key Concepts and Categories 3. What Is a Process? 4. Modes of Process 5. The Priority of Process: Against the Process Reducibility Thesis 6. Processes and Dispositions 3. Process and Particulars 1. Particulars 2. Complexification 3. Ongoing Identity as a Matter of Ongoing Reidentifiability: An Idealistic Perspective 4.Against Strawson's Critique of Processism 5. Difficulties of Substantialism 6. The Origination of Particulars 4. Process and Universals 1. Process and "The Problem of Universals" 2. Novelty, Innovation, Creativity 3. Taxonomic Complexification 5. Process Philosophy of Nature 1. Basic Ideas of a Process Philosophy of Nature 2. Process and Existence 3. Process and the Laws of Nature 4. Space-Time 5. The Quantum Apsect 6. Process Philosophy and Evolutionary Optimism 7. Validation 6. Process and Persons 1. Difficulties of the Self and the Process Approach to Persons 2. Mind and Matter in Processual Perspective 3. Human Life as a Process: The General Idea of a Life Cycle 4. Historical Process 5. Transiency and Value 7. Process Logic and Epistemology 1. Truth and Knowledge: The Processual Perspective 2. Aristotle and Truth-Value Indeterminacy 3. The Processual Nature of Knowledge and the Cognitive Inexhaustibility of Things 4. Process and Experience 5. Process and Communication 8. A Processual View of Scientific Inquiry 1. Inquiry as a Productive Process: The Example of Science 2. Difficulties in Predicting Future Science: In Natural Science, the Present Cannot Speak for the Future 3. Scientific Progress Is Driven by Technological Escalation 9. Process Theology 1. God: Substance or Process? 2. The Process View of God 3. God in Time and Eternity: The Problem of Free Will 4. God in and for Nature 10. Process in Philosophy 1. Philosophy in Process 2. Is Process Philosophy Coherent? 3. The State of Process Philosophy 4. Process and Metaphilosophy 5. The Bottom Line Appendix: Process Semantics Notes Bibliography Name Index
Synopsis
Presents a synoptic, compact, and accessible exposition of this influential and interesting sector of twentieth-century American philosophy., This is a synoptic, compact, and accessible exposition for readers who want to inform themselves regarding this influential and interesting sector of twentieth-century American philosophy., Presents a synoptic, compact, and accessible exposition of this influential and interesting sector of twentieth-century American philosophy. This is a synoptic, compact, and accessible exposition for readers who want to inform themselves regarding this influential and interesting sector of twentieth-century American philosophy.
LC Classification Number
BD372.R47 1996

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