Process Metaphysics

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ISBN: 9780791428177 | 0791428176
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Copyright: 2/1/1996

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Preface
Introduction
Historical Background
Prospect
Heraclitus (6th Century B.C.)
Plato and Aristotle
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1717)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)
William James (1842-1910)
Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Wilmon H. Shelfon (1875-1981)
Retrospect
Basic Ideas
The Process Approach and Its Alternatives
Key Concepts and Categories
What Is a Process?
Modes of Process
The Priority of Process: Against the Process Reducibility Thesis
Processes and Dispositions
Process and Particulars
Particulars
Complexification
Ongoing Identity as a Matter of Ongoing Reidentifiability: An Idealistic Perspective
Against Strawson's Critique of Processism
Difficulties of Substantialism
The Origination of Particulars
Process and Universals
Process and "The Problem of Universals"
Novelty, Innovation, Creativity
Taxonomic Complexification
Process Philosophy of Nature
Basic Ideas of a Process Philosophy of Nature
Process and Existence
Process and the Laws of Nature
Space-Time
The Quantum Apsect
Process Philosophy and Evolutionary Optimism
Validation
Process and Persons
Difficulties of the Self and the Process Approach to Persons
Mind and Matter in Processual Perspective
Human Life as a Process: The General Idea of a Life Cycle
Historical Process
Transiency and Value
Process Logic and Epistemology
Truth and Knowledge: The Processual Perspective
Aristotle and Truth-Value Indeterminacy
The Processual Nature of Knowledge and the Cognitive Inexhaustibility of Things
Process and Experience
Process and Communication
A Processual View of Scientific Inquiry
Inquiry as a Productive Process: The Example of Science
Difficulties in Predicting Future Science: In Natural Science, the Present Cannot Speak for the Future
Scientific Progress Is Driven by Technological Escalation
Process Theology
God: Substance or Process?
The Process View of God
God in Time and Eternity: The Problem of Free Will
God in and for Nature
Process in Philosophy
Philosophy in Process
Is Process Philosophy Coherent?
The State of Process Philosophy
Process and Metaphilosophy
The Bottom Line
Appendix: Process Semantics
Notes
Bibliography
Name Index
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