Speculative Empiricism : : Revisiting Whitehead / / Tomas Joseph Weber, Isabelle Stengers, Didier Debaise.

A radically new philosophy of experience and speculation, based on a reading of Whitehead’s Process and RealityCan experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Speculative Realism : SPRE
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Translator’s Note
  • Preface Isabelle Stengers
  • 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 Societies
  • 12 Nature and Societies
  • 13 Conclusion: What is Speculative Empiricism?
  • Works Cited
  • Index