The lure of Whitehead /
This volume addresses the sudden interest, across a range of disciplines, in Alfred North Whitehead's speculative philosophy. Among its fifteen contributions are essays on metaphysics, philosophy of science, digital art, sociology, computer software design, artificial life, and Whitehead's...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I. Speculation beyond the Bifurcation
- 1. A Constructivist Reading of Process and Reality
- 2. Scientism and the Modern World
- 3. What Is the Style of Matters of Concern
- 4. The Technics of Prehension
- II. The Metaphysics of Creativity
- 5. Whitehead's Involution of an Outside Chance
- 6. Multiplicity and Mysticism
- 7. The Event and the Occasion
- 8. Whitehead and Schools X, Y, and Z
- 9. Whitehead's Curse?
- 10. Cutting Away from Smooth Space
- III. Process Ecology
- 11. Possessive Subjects
- 12. Another Regard
- 13. Of "Experiential Togetherness
- 14. The Order of Nature and the Creation of Societies
- 15. Imaginative Chemistry
- Contributors
- Index.