Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology

✍ Scribed by Alfred North Whitehead

• Publisher: Free Press
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 447
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century,Process and Realityis based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.

Whitehead’s master work in philsophy,Process and Realitypropounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant.

The ultimate edition of Whitehead’s magnum opus,Process and Realityis a standard reference for scholars of all backgrounds.

✦ Table of Contents

PART I: THE SPECULATIVE SCHEME
1. Speculative Philosophy
2. The Categoreal Scheme
3. Some Derivative Notions
PART II: DISCUSSIONS AND APPLICATIONS
1. Fact and Form
2. The Extensive Continuum
3. The Order of Nature
4. Organisms and Environment
5. Locke and Hume
6. From Descartes to Kant
7. The Subjectivist Principle
8. Symbolic Reference
9. The Propositions
10. Process
PART III: THE THEORY OF PREHENSIONS
1. The Theory of Feelings
2. The Primary Feelings
3. The Transmission of Feelings
4. Propositions and Feelings
5. The Higher Phases of Experience
PART IV: THE THEORY OF EXTENSION
1. Coordinate Division
2. Extensive Connection
3. Flat Loci
4. Strains
5. Measurement
PART V: FINAL INTERPRETATION
1. The Ideal Opposites
2. God and the World