Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 449 pages) : illustrations |
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Fordham American philosophy
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Contents |
The architecture of theories ; The doctrine of necessity examined ; The law of mind ; Man's glassy essence / Charles Sanders Peirce -- The dilemma of determinism ; The stream and consciousness ; The problem of novelty / William James -- "Reason" in philosophy ; The four great errors / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Natural piety / Samuel Alexander -- The idea of duration ; The possible and the real / Henri Bergson -- Qualitative thought ; Time and individuality ; Existence as precarious and stable ; Nature, life and body-mind / John Dewey -- Critique of scientific materialism ; Process ; Fact and form ; Objects and subjects ; The grouping of occasions / Alfred North Whitehead -- The present as the locus of reality ; The genesis of the self and social control / George Herbert Mead -- The development of process philosophy (introduction to the first edition) ; A world of organisms ; Chance, love and incompatibility / Charles Hartshorne |
Summary |
Process philosophy is fundamentally a metaphysical position. Its doctrine is that the universe is essentially to be understood not as substance and causality, as in the Cartesian tradition, but as process and creativity." "Since the publication of the first edition of Philosophers of Process, interest in American Pragmatism - particularly Peirce and Dewey - has continued to grow. In addition, there is another group whose interest is more straightforwardly metaphysical. The interests of this group tend toward the works of Whitehead, Hartshorne, and sometimes Bergson and James. Between these two groups there are quite a number of philosophers interested in teaching process metaphysics on both the undergraduate and graduate level. This book is intended to fill the need for a single volume of primary texts in this area. -- Provided by publisher |
Notes |
Previous ed. entered under editor |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Process philosophy.
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Philosophers, Modern -- United States
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Philosophers, Modern -- Europe
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process philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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Philosophers, Modern
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Process philosophy
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Europe
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Browning, Douglas, 1929-
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Myers, William T
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ISBN |
058517105X |
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9780585171050 |
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