Explorations in Whitehead's Philosophy / / Lewis Ford, George Kline.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Ford, Lewis,; Kline, George,
• MitwirkendeR: Buchler, Justus,; Christian, William A.,; Cobb, John B.,; Crosby, Donald A.,; Ely, Stephen Lee,; Ford, Lewis S.,; Garland, William J.,; Hartshorne, Charles,; Henry, Granville C.,; Johnson, A. H.,; Kline, George L.,; Leclerc, Lvor,; Neville, Robert C.,; Reeves, Gene,; Rorty, Richard M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 p.)

All the authors of the sixteen essays gathered in this volume are concerned, in their different ways, to clarify, criticize, and develop key ideas and insights of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), one of the towering figures of twentieth-century speculative thought, whose "process philosophy&...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• FOREWORD
• I. WHITEHEAD AS PHILOSOPHER
• 1. Some Conversations with Whitehead Concerning God and Creativity
• 2. Whitehead's Philosophical Response to the New Mathematics
• II. THE METAPHYSICS OF PROCESS
• 3. Some Aspects of Whitehead's Metaphysics
• 4. Freedom in Whitehead's Philosophy
• 5. Being and Becoming in Whitehead's Philosophy
• 6. Matter and Event
• 7. Form, Concrescence, and Concretum
• III. CREATIVITY, RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, AND GOD
• 8. Religion and Solitariness
• 9. The Religious Availability of Whitehead's God: A Critical Analysis
• 10. The Ultimacy of Creativity
• 11. God and Creativity
• IV. SOME CONTRASTING INTERPRETATIONS
• 12. Whitehead on the One and the Many
• 13. Neville's Interpretation of Creativity
• 14. On a Strain of Arbitrariness in Whitehead's System
• 15. Ontological Primacy: A Reply to Buchler
• AFTERWORD. A Sampling of Other Interpretations
• INDEX