Whitehead's Metaphysics of CreativityFriedrich Rapp, Reiner Wiehl This book discusses the problems raised by Whitehead s metaphysics of creativity metaphysics focused on dynamic becoming rather than on static being and the proposed solutions to those problems. Whitehead adds a new dimension to the issues of traditional metaphysics by taking into account the world view of our civilization and the results of modern science. His all-embracing speculative cosmology provides a synthesis which goes far beyond the details considered in modern analytic philosophy. To him, the principle of novelty is the universal of universals, and in his system of categories, he aims at avoiding the bifurcation of nature into a physical and mental pole. |
Contents
Whitehead and the Dichotomy of Rationalism and Empiricism | 1 |
Whitehead and Berkeley On the True Nature of Sense Perception | 21 |
Whitehead s Interpretation of Locke in Process and Reality | 34 |
Creativity and the Passage of Nature | 59 |
Whitehead s Concept of Creativity and Modern Science | 70 |
Whiteheads Cosmology as Revisable Metaphysics | 94 |
What One Thinks Singular Propositions and the Content of Judgements | 117 |
Whiteheads Cosmology of Feeling Between Ontology and Anthropology | 127 |
Atom Duration Form Difficulties with Process Philosophy | 167 |
Creativity as Universal Activity | 178 |
Creativity A New Transcendental? | 189 |
The Authors | 209 |
Abbreviations | 213 |
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Which Experiences Teach Us to Understand the World? Observations on the Paradigm of Whitehead s Cosmology | 152 |
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absolute abstract activity actual entities actual occasions Aristotelian Aristotle behavior Berkeley Berkeley's causality Charles Hartshorne conceived concept of creativity concrescence concrete actual constitutes contrast cosmology creation creative advance creatures criticism Descartes distinction doctrine dualism Emphasis added empirical empiricism Essay essence eternal objects existence experience explain expressed external fact feelings and sensations finite formulation fundamental Hegel Ibid ideas internal interpretation Kant Leibniz Locke Locke's Lockean logical means mental metaphysical dualism metaphysics mind modern science Modern World neoplatonic notion novelty ontological panpsychism particular perceiving perception phenomena philosophy of organism physical possible prehension principle problem Process and Reality process philosophy question rationalism reason regard relation Robert Spaemann scheme scientific sense singular proposition soul Summa theologiae theoretical theory things and substances Thomas Aquinas thought tion traditional transcendental truth ultimate understanding unity universal Whitehead's concept Whitehead's cosmology Whitehead's philosophy Whiteheadian