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Reconciling Evolution and Whitehead's Process Philosophy: Is Randomness the Key to Creativity in Nature?
I am somewhat interested in Whitehead's process philosophy and reality.
The following points puzzled me:
How can the survival of the fittest (evolution) be explained through process philosophy?
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"Vector Character" in Whitehead's Process and Reality
In Process and Reality, Alfred North Whitehead discusses the concept of "prehensions" and describes them as having a "vector character." Coming from a physics background, I ...
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Formal deduction of Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism
In Process and Reality Whitehead starts off the investigation by giving his categoreal scheme - different types of categories and their derivatives, as well as some axioms. If I understand correctly, ...
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How does Whitehead explain repeated attempts of remembrance/recollection?
In Process and Reality one of the main concepts Whitehead talks about is the symbolic reference. A derivative element of the connection between symbolic type and meaning type of species (in Whitehead'...
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What are the characteristics of an event according to Whitehead?
Throughout Concept of Nature Whitehead adds different types of characteristics to his most basic concept - events.
For example, he talks of objects, the situation of the event in space and time, its ...
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Does Whitehead's physics include atoms?
I know that one of the major points of Whitehead is to criticize the atomistic theory of nature and replace it with events. But can an atom exist as part of an event? What role does electron, protons, ...
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What motivated Whitehead to choose "Cogredience"?
I'm not a native english speaker, so I was not familiar with the term "cogredience" when I first saw it in Concept of Nature. frankly, it seems like its a word Whitehead used in a different ...
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For Whitehead, is an event theoretical or ontological?
I'm getting to Whitehead in my reading list, and have started with "Concept of Nature".
Have not finished it yet, but something disturbs me throughout the book (aside from his god-awful ...
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Can we do without Necessity?
It appears that necessity is a dead idea that, unfortunately, only philosophers still gush over. The association of epistemological and logical necessity with ontological necessity ran its course ...
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Should Time and Space Serve as Necessary or Contingent modalities of Division in Cosmology?
In the introduction to Process and Reality, Whitehead criticizes the tendency to posit logical or ontological necessity as the primary modes of cosmological explanation. For Whitehead time is a ...
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What is the telos of a proposition?
Whitehead contends in Process and Reality that propositions are “hybrid entities” which act as “lures for feeling.” The famous co-author of Principia Mathematica scolds the traditional conventions of ...
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