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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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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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