The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925 - 1927: General Metaphysical Problems of Science, Henning Brian G., Petek Joseph, Lucas George
Автор: Henning Brian G Название: Whitehead at Harvard, 1924-1925 ISBN: 1474461352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474461351 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 16632.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead`s first year of philosophy lectures. Also included in this volume is the text of Whitehead`s first lecture at Harvard, allowing for a clearer understanding of Whitehead`s plans and goals for his first philosophy lectures.
Описание: Argues that events, not substances, are the fundamental units of reality
What kinds of things are events? Battles, explosions, accidents, crashes, rock concerts would be typical examples of events and these would be reinforced in the way we speak about the world. Philosophers following Aristotle have claimed that events are dependent on substances such as physical objects and persons. But with the advances of modern physics, some philosophers and physicists have argued that events are the basic entities of reality and what we perceive as physical bodies are just very long events spread out in space-time. In other words, everything turns out to be events. This view, no doubt, radically revises our ordinary common sense view of reality, but as our event theorists argue, common sense is out of touch with advancing science.
Leemon B. McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a sounder basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead's theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as W. V. Quine. In this way, McHenry defends the naturalised and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century. In this context, Whitehead's process metaphysics, long considered incomprehensible by mainstream philosophers, becomes intelligible.
Read an interview with Leemon McHenry on Crosscurrents series editor Christopher Watkin's blog
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Название: Harvard lectures of alfred north whitehead, 1924-1925 ISBN: 1474401848 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474401845 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 29304.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Alfred North Whitehead presented a regular course of 85 lectures which extended from September of 1924 to May 1925. These represent the first ever philosophy lectures he gave and capture him working out the philosophical implications of the remarkable turns that physics had taken in his lifetime.
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