Whitehead's Metaphysics of Creativity

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Friedrich Rapp, Reiner Wiehl
SUNY Press, Jan 1, 1990 - Philosophy - 223 pages
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.
 

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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
Index of Names
215
Index of Subjects
219
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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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In West Germany, Friedrich Rapp is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dortmund

and Reiner Wiehl is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg.

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