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Author Debaise, Didier, author

Title Speculative empiricism : revisiting Whitehead / Didier Debaise ; translated by Tomas Joseph Weber
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Speculative realism
Speculative realism.
Contents Intro; Speculative Empiricism; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Translator's Note; Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Speculative Philosophy: Method and Function; 2 What is Speculative Philosophy?; 3 Creativity as Ultimate Principle; 4 Actualising Creativity; Part II The Speculative Approach to Existence: Process and Individuation; 5 What is a Process of Individuation?; 6 What is the Subject?; 7 Realisation of Self and Power; 8 Pure Potentiality and Actuality; 9 Temporal Dimensions of Actual Entities; Part III Experiences and Societies: Thinking Nature; 10 A Universe of Societies
11 The Mode of Existence of Societies12 Nature and Societies; 13 Conclusion: What is Speculative Empiricism?; Works Cited; Index
Summary Didier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead's attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience, giving us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation
Notes Translated from the French
Previously issued in print: 2017
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 13, 2018)
Subject Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
SUBJECT Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. fast (OCoLC)fst00036159
Subject Empiricism.
Empiricism.
Form Electronic book
Author Weber, Tomas Joseph, translator
ISBN 9781474438612
147443861X