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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.

Table of Contents:
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 Bibliography Name Index

About the Author :
Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also served as Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. For over three decades, he has been editor of the American Philosophical Quarterly. He was elected to membership in both the Institut International de Philosophie and the Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. Rescher is the author of more than 60 books in various areas of philosophy, and his works have been translated into German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese. He has held fellowships from the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society. He is a former president of the American Philosophical Association, the C.S. Peirce Society, and the G.W. Leibniz Society of America and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. He was elected an honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and in 1983 he received an Alexander von Humboldt Humanities Prize, awarded under the auspices of the Federal Republic of Germany, "in recognition of the research accomplishments of humanistic scholars of international distinction."

Review :
"In this book, one of the nation's most literate, prolific, and respected philosophers brings his considerable analytic skills to bear on process philosophy. It is over 30 years since a philosopher of such national and international stature has chosen to focus on the main issues of this extensive but neglected philosophical school. Earlier evaluations of process philosophy by Strawson, Rorty, and Grünbaum, moreover, were partial, selective, and often rested upon serious misunderstandings. By contrast, Rescher aims at a comprehensive, fair, and impartial treatment of the main problems in analytic metaphysics, including now-standard problems in logic, language, and epistemology, to which a process-oriented approach offers substantive insights. Rescher offers a calm, thoughtful, and open-minded analysis of problems such as personhood and personal identity, the status of universals and particulars, our understanding of nature and of biological and cultural evolution, and brief discussions of philosophical approaches to the nature of scientific inquiry itself and to theology that coordinate the insights of process philosophy and with the work of many leading contemporary anglo-American philosophers. "This is a masterly treatment and a monumental achievement, resulting in an eminently readable introduction and survey for specialists and a useful and instructive outline for students." — George R. Lucas, Jr., Georgetown University


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  • ISBN-13: 9780791428177
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 227 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0791428176
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Series Title: SUNY series in Philosophy
  • Sub Title: An Introduction to Process Philosophy
  • Width: 140 mm


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