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The first scholarly edition of critically edited, previously unpublished notes of Whitehead's philosophy lectures from 1925 to 1927. Reproduces more than 170 lectures delivered by Alfred North Whitehead during his 2nd and 3rd years at Harvard. Provides a window into the developm…
"Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered Whitehead and his work as a philosoph…
"Rather than a "logical assertion," Whitehead described a proposition as a "lure for feeling" for a collectivity to come. The unique contributions in Propositions in the Making articulate the newest reaches of Whiteheadian propositions for a postmodern world"--.
"A engaging dialogue with the modern "axionoetic" proposals of A.N. Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie, arguing for the relational nature of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility and Actuality, God and the World are affirmed as ultimate only in virtue of their relatio…
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Addressing the question of whether, and if so how, philosophy can come to the assistance of a culture mired in bad sense, this book begins with a critique of the reductionistic approach to thinking that is promoted by modern science. It moves toward a novel view of reason and re…
This study attempts to elucidate a possible meeting point of the traditions of Eastern and Western metaphysical thinking. In discussing Whitehead's and Aurobindo's views on being and becoming, it seeks the possibility of a better engagement between the East and the West in the l…
The lure of Whitehead
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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 …