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Process and reality : an essay in cosmology
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Based on the Gifford Lectures which Whitehead delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1927-8. Process and Reality presents a system of speculative philosophy which is based on a categorical sch...
Based on the Gifford Lectures which Whitehead delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1927-8. Process and Reality presents a system of speculative philosophy which is based on a categorical scheme of investigation designed to explain how concrete aspects of human experience can provide a foundation for our understanding of reality. It also investigates how reality can be defined as a process of becoming.
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- by Alfred North Whitehead
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- English
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- Corrected edition / edited by David Ray Griffin, Donald W. Sherburne
- New York : Free Press, 1979
- ©1929
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- xxxi, 413 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0029345707, 9780029345702
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- ocm09261279, ocm09261279
- First Free Press paperback edition 1979--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The speculative scheme. Speculative philosophy ; The categoreal scheme ; Some derivative notions -- Discussions and applications. Fact and form ; The extensive continuum ; The order of nature ; Organisms and environment ; Locke and Hume ; From Descartes to Kant ; The subjectivist principle ; Symbolic reference ; The propositions ; Process ; Propositions and feelings ; The higher phases of experience -- The theory of extension. Coordinate division ; Extensive connection ; Flat loci ; Strains ; Measurement -- Final interpretation. The ideal opposites ; God and the world