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State University of New York Press - Nicholas Rescher

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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.

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

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	01 février 1996
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781438417110
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	67 Mo

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