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Lucas treats Whitehead within the framework of major themes in current Anglo-American "analytic" philosophy, viewed against the backdrop of significant historical trends in European and American thought since the Enlightenment. This most misunderstood of twentieth-century philosophers is critically interpreted here. Whitehead had developed 50 years ago some ideas only now emerging in analytic philosophy. Lucas examines the significance of Whitehead's thought for current epistemology of science, for the anti-foundationalism debate, and more generally, for modal logic, action, theory, philosophical psychology, and the philosophy of mind. He shows how some recent analytic philosophy is now developing ideas concerning language, personal identity, and other topics that are found in Whitehead. Lucas concludes with recent problems in relativity theory and quantum mechanics, indicating how these bear on the philosophy of science and on the task of forging a comprehensive understanding of nature. He examines the debates concerning Einstein and Whitehead on relativity and analyzes the work of Bohm, Prigogine, and others who have found Whitehead's categories useful for their own success. Whitehead is shown to be a historical figure of great importance, not an idiosyncratic thinker, isolated along with a few enthusiastic followers from the mainstream of contemporary philosophy. With Russell, Whitehead participated in the same philosophical world that gave rise to analytic philosophy.

Table of Contents:
Preface I. Systematic Philosophy and the Rehabilitation of Whitehead Systematic Philosophy of the "Death of Philosophy" Systematic Philosophy as Public Philosophy The Relevance of Whitehead The Rehabilitation of Whitehead PART ONE: Philosophy Before Whitehead II. Evolution and the Emergence of Process Metaphysics On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life The Structure of Philosophic Revolutions Evolution and Revolution German Idealism and Romantic Naturphilosophie The Convergence of Post-Hegelian Idealism and Later Evolutionary Cosmology Summary III. Realism, Idealism, and the Development of Whitehead's Philosophy The Realist Revolt The Significance of Whitehead's Philosophy Concluding Summary PART TWO: Whitehead and the Historical Tradition IV. Whitehead and Evolutionary Cosmologies The Importance of Evolutionary Cosmology Historical Reprise of Evolutionary Cosmology The Influence of Evolutionary Cosmology on Whitehead Whitehead's Philosophical Differences from Evolutionary Cosmology Whitehead's Distinctive Contributions to Speculative Metaphysics vis-a-vis Evolutionary Cosmology Conclusion V. Whitehead's Understanding of Kant Whitehead's Aversion to Idealism Whitehead and the Problem of Kant The Misappropriation of Kant Whitehead's Significant Innovations Conclusion VI. Whitehead, Hegel, and the Philosophy of Nature Whitehead's Theory of Organic Mechanism Hegel's Philosophy of Nature The Later Discussion of Nature in Hegel's Encyclopedia Conclusion VII. Whitehead and Russell Some Important Differences Some Important Similarities Substantive Philosophical Comparisons Conclusion PART THREE: The Future of Process Philosophy VIII. Analytic and Post-Analytic Themes in Whitehead's Metaphysics Whitehead's Exclusion from the Philosophic Mainstream The Structure of Scientific Revolutions The Logic of Scientific Discovery Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Possible Worlds Mind, Body, Agency, and Personal Identity The Reconception of Experience IX. Recent Developments in Process Metaphysics Process Metaphysics and the Problem of Freedom Freedom and the Problem of Human Agency Freedom and Enduring Substance Substance, Causality, and Identity Theism and Naturalism The Causal Objectification of the Past Becoming and Being The Compositional Analysis of Whitehead's Writings Conclusion X. Philosophy of Science and Philosopy of Nature The Theory of Relativity Bell's Theorem and Causal Explanations in Quantum Mechanics David Bohm: Physics and the "Implicate Order" From Physics to a Systematic Philosophy of Nature Conclusion: The Future of Philsophy and of Process Philosophy Notes Index


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  • ISBN-13: 9780887069895
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 227 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0887069894
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 1989
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process Philosophy
  • Width: 152 mm


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