Presents a synoptic, compact, and accessible exposition of this influential and interesting sector of twentieth-century American philosophy.
This is a synoptic, compact, and accessible exposition for readers who want to inform themselves regarding this influential and interesting sector of twentieth-century American philosophy.
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Preface
Introduction
1. Historical Background
1. Prospect
2. Heraclitus (6th Century B.C.)
3. Plato and Aristotle
4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1717)
5. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
6. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)
7. William James (1842-1910)
8. Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
9. John Dewey (1859-1952)
10. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
11. Wilmon H. Shelfon (1875-1981)
12. Retrospect
2. Basic Ideas
1. The Process Approach and Its Alternatives
2. Key Concepts and Categories
3. What Is a Process?
4. Modes of Process
5. The Priority of Process: Against the Process Reducibility Thesis
6. Processes and Dispositions
3. Process and Particulars
1. Particulars
2. Complexification
3. Ongoing Identity as a Matter of Ongoing Reidentifiability: An Idealistic Perspective
4.Against Strawson’s Critique of Processism
5. Difficulties of Substantialism
6. The Origination of Particulars
4. Process and Universals
1. Process and ‘The Problem of Universals’
2. Novelty, Innovation, Creativity
3. Taxonomic Complexification
5. Process Philosophy of Nature
1. Basic Ideas of a Process Philosophy of Nature
2. Process and Existence
3. Process and the Laws of Nature
4. Space-Time
5. The Quantum Apsect
6. Process Philosophy and Evolutionary Optimism
7. Validation
6. Process and Persons
1. Difficulties of the Self and the Process Approach to Persons
2. Mind and Matter in Processual Perspective
3. Human Life as a Process: The General Idea of a Life Cycle
4. Historical Process
5. Transiency and Value
7. Process Logic and Epistemology
1. Truth and Knowledge: The Processual Perspective
2. Aristotle and Truth-Value Indeterminacy
3. The Processual Nature of Knowledge and the Cognitive Inexhaustibility of Things
4. Process and Experience
5. Process and Communication
8. A Processual View of Scientific Inquiry
1. Inquiry as a Productive Process: The Example of Science
2. Difficulties in Predicting Future Science: In Natural Science, the Present Cannot Speak for the Future
3. Scientific Progress Is Driven by Technological Escalation
9. Process Theology
1. God: Substance or Process?
2. The Process View of God
3. God in Time and Eternity: The Problem of Free Will
4. God in and for Nature
10. Process in Philosophy
1. Philosophy in Process
2. Is Process Philosophy Coherent?
3. The State of Process Philosophy
4. Process and Metaphilosophy
5. The Bottom Line
Appendix: Process Semantics
Notes
Bibliography
Name Index
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Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of more than one hundred books, including Epistemology: An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge; Realistic Pragmatism: An Introduction to Pragmatic Philosophy; Predicting the Future: An Introduction to the Theory of Forecasting; Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy; and Dialectics: A Controversy-Oriented Approach to the Theory of Knowledge; all published by SUNY Press. Among his many achievements, he is former president of the American Philosophical Association and recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship.
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