Whitehead's Pancreativism : : The Basics / / Michel Weber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Weber, Michel,
• MitwirkendeR: Rescher, Nicholas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Process Thought , 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (255 p.)

There is one question that any potential reader who suspects that Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) might be important for past, contemporary, and future philosophy inevitably raises: how should I read Whitehead? How can I make sense of this incredibly dense tissue of imaginative systematizing, spread over decades of work in disciplines so different and specialized as algebra, geometry, logic, relativistic physics and philosophy of science? Accordingly, this monograph has two main complementary objectives. The first one is to propose a set of efficient hermeneutical tools to get the reader started. These straightforward tools provide answers that are highly coherent and probably the most applicable to Whitehead's entire corpus. The second objective is to illustrate how the several parts of Process and Reality are interconnected, something that all commentators have either failed to recognise or only incompletely acknowledged.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Notes -- I. Historico-Conceptual Context -- II. The Intertwining of Science, Philosophy and Religion -- III. Process and Reality’s Goal and Method -- IV. Creative Advance and Categoreal Scheme -- V. Pancreativism -- VI. Epochal Actuality and Types of Potentiality -- VII. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Analytic Table of Contents -- Process Thought Series