The metaphysics of experience : a companion to Whitehead's Process and reality /
The Metaphysics of Experience styles itself as "a Sherpa guide to Process and Reality, whose function is to assist the serious reader in grasping the meaning of the text and to prevent falls into misinterpretation." Although originally published in 1925, Process and Reality has perhaps eve...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
1998.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | American philosophy series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The Metaphysics of Experience styles itself as "a Sherpa guide to Process and Reality, whose function is to assist the serious reader in grasping the meaning of the text and to prevent falls into misinterpretation." Although originally published in 1925, Process and Reality has perhaps even more relevance to the contemporary scene in physics, biology, psychology, and the social sciences than it had in the mid-twenties. Hence its internal difficulty, its quasi-inaccessibility, is all the more tragic, since, unlike most metaphysical endeavors, it is capable of interpreting and unifying theories in the above sciences in terms of an organic world view, instead of selecting one theory as the paradigm and reducing all others to it. The author has made revisions for this 1998 edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 200 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 058517122X 9780585171227 9780823217953 0823217957 9780823217960 0823217965 9780823283156 0823283151 9780823285174 0823285170 |
| ISSN: | 1073-2764 |