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Author Kraus, Elizabeth M

Title American philosophy series. No. 8, The metaphysics of experience : a companion to Whitehead's Process and reality / Elizabeth M. Kraus ; with a foreword by Robert Cummings Neville
Edition 2nd ed
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 200 pages) : illustrations
Series American philosophy series, 1073-2764
American philosophy series. 1073-2764
Contents Process philosophy and its problems -- Science and the modern world as a romantic version of process and reality -- The speculative scheme (PR, Part 1) -- Discussions and applications (PR, Part 2) -- The structure of a concrescence (PR, Part 3) -- The theory of extension (PR, Part 4) -- God and the world (PR, Part 5)
Summary The Metaphysics of Experience styles itself as "a Sherpa guide to Process and Reality, whose function is to assist the serious reader in grasping the meaning of the text and to prevent falls into misinterpretation." Although originally published in 1925, Process and Reality has perhaps even more relevance to the contemporary scene in physics, biology, psychology, and the social sciences than it had in the mid-twenties. Hence its internal difficulty, its quasi-inaccessibility, is all the more tragic, since, unlike most metaphysical endeavors, it is capable of interpreting and unifying theories in the above sciences in terms of an organic world view, instead of selecting one theory as the paradigm and reducing all others to it. The author has made revisions for this 1998 edition. -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 185) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. Process and reality
SUBJECT Process and reality (Whitehead, Alfred North) fast
Subject Cosmology.
Science -- Philosophy.
Process philosophy.
Experience.
cosmology.
process philosophy.
SCIENCE -- Cosmology.
Cosmology
Experience
Process philosophy
Science -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 058517122X
9780585171227
Other Titles Metaphysics of experience