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Title A.N. Whitehead's thought through a new prism / edited by Aljoscha Berve and Helmut Maaßen
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages) : illustrations
Series European studies in process thought ; 3
Contents Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Part I: Methodology; On the Relation of The Function of Reason and Process and Reality; The Implicit Logic of Whitehead's Metaphysical System; Process Ontology; Language and Symbolism; The Extensive Continuum as Indefinite Real Potentiality; Part II: Application; 1. Physics; Milic Capek; The Problem of Novelty and the Atomization of Time; Whitehead's Copernican Turn; 2. Religion; Why is the Unison not Eurythmic?; The Problematic of Harmony in Classical Chinese Religious Thought; Against Dogmatic Finality; 3. Education and Psychology
Idealist Thinking in Coleridge, Emerson and WhiteheadIgnatian and Whiteheadian Educational Process; Signs in the Flesh; Contributors
Summary This volume brings together the proceedings of the "European Summer School for Process Thought", which took place in Mülheim, Germany, in August 2012. It explores Alfred North Whitehead's thinking in different fields of science, connecting his philosophical writings with physics, religion, education, psychology and aesthetics. The first part of the book is concerned with Whitehead's philosophical methodology, discussing a plethora of subjects, including the interdependence between some of Whitehead's works, the role of logic in his style of argument, concepts of time, the role of symbolism, an
Notes "This volume is a selection of the papers presented at the "Second European Summer School for Process Thought", which took place in Mülheim, Germany, from August 5-10, 2012"--Preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947 -- Congresses
SUBJECT Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947 fast
Subject Process philosophy -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Process philosophy
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Berve, Aljoscha, editor
Maassen, Helmut, 1946- editor.
ISBN 9781443860918
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