Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality / / ed. by Michel Weber, Pierfrancesco Basile.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, George,; Basile, Pierfrancesco,; Bracken, Joseph A.,; Cobb, John B.,; Griffin, David Ray,; Hampe, Michael,; Lango, John W.,; Maaßen, Helmut,; McHenry, Leemon B.,; Rescher, Nicholas,; Segev, Alon,; Weber, Michel,; Weekes, Anderson,; Weidmann, Bernd,; Wiehl, Reiner,
• HerausgeberIn: Basile, Pierfrancesco,; Weber, Michel,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Process Thought , 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 p.)

This volume gathers prominent international scholars to celebrate the complex legacy of Reiner Wiehl, whose work has been instrumental in bringing together the European tradition of prima philosophia as represented by Plato, Spinoza, Kant and Hegel, with the adventurous speculative renewal of the twentieth century by Alfred North Whitehead. Grouped into four sections (Process and Universals, Nature and Subjectivity, Ethics and Civilization, Psychology and Phenomenology) the fifteen papers collected in this book cover a range of topics which is as wide and as intertwined as Wiehl's own expertise. The common thread running through all contributions is the problematic nature of subjectivity and especially of its process slant, which easily eludes the static and abstract schemes of rationality.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Process and Universals -- Process Philosophy and the Problem of Universals -- Abstraction and Individuation in Whitehead and Wiehl: A Comparative Historical Approach -- II. Nature and Subjectivity -- Prehension -- Whitehead, Hume and the Phenomenology of Causation -- Subjectivity, System and Intersubjectivity -- Maxwell’s Field and Whitehead’s Events: The Adventure of a Revolutionary Idea -- III. Ethics and Civilization -- Morality and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts -- Can Specific Rules be Deduced from Moral Principles? -- Ethical Quantities -- The Wand of the Enchanter -- Creativity, Efficacy and Vision: Ethics and Psychology in an Open Universe -- IV. Psychology and Phenomenology -- Truthfulness and Memory: Philosophical Notes on Trauma -- Empathy and Reliability: Albert Fraenkel as seen by his Patients Hesse and Jaspers -- On Gadamer, Phenomenology and Historical Relativism -- Max Scheler on Love and Hate: A Phenomenological Approach -- About the Authors -- Analytical Table of Contents -- Process Thought Series