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By: Jakub Dziadkowiec

ISBN: 9781498554688
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Beyond Whitehead brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in process philosophy, concerning the study its basic concepts and their roots, and its potential extensions and revisions.


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By: Brianne Donaldson

ISBN: 9781498501798
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book asserts that metaphysics is a fundamental factor in systemic brutality toward animals, plants, and marginalized populations and examines Whiteheads process-relational thought and the nonviolent Indian tradition of Jainism in order to offer a new perspective on metaphysics.


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By: Michael Epperson

ISBN: 9781498516228
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Foundations of Relational Realism presents an intuitive interpretation of quantum mechanics, based on a revised decoherent histories interpretation, structured within a category theoretic topological formalism.


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By: Randy Ramal

ISBN: 9781793638809
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book calls scholars to avoid the temptation to reduce philosophy into a normative discipline. The author argues that philosophy's main responsibility does not reside in changing the world, but in safeguarding sense and intelligibility against unfounded forms of skepticism.


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By: Roland Faber

ISBN: 9781793612564
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Rather than a logical assertion, Whitehead described a proposition as a lure for feeling for a collectivity to come. The unique contributions in Propositions in the Making articulate the newest reaches of Whiteheadian propositions for a postmodern world.


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By: Roland Faber

ISBN: 9780739191392
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In an intricate play on Dantes Divine Comedy, this book engages questions of religion and philosophy through the aporetic dynamics of love and power, locating its discussions in the midst of, and in between the spheres of a genuine philosophy of multiplicity.


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By: Brian G. Henning

ISBN: 9780739190319
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This collection of original essays explores the connections between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and the classical American pragmatists.


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By: Steve Odin

ISBN: 9781498514774
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines Whitehead's process aesthetics focusing the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while establishing parallels with the Japanese sense of evanescent beauty. It clarifies how both traditions develop a religio-aesthetic vision of tragic beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace.


(Paperback)

By: Steve Odin

ISBN: 9781498514798
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines Whiteheads process aesthetics focusing the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while establishing parallels with the Japanese sense of evanescent beauty. It clarifies how both traditions develop a religio-aesthetic vision of tragic beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace.


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By: Timothy E. Eastman

ISBN: 9781793639189
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Untying the Gordian Knot shows how the fundamental notions of process, logic and relations, woven with triads of input-output-context, can be combined with quantum distinctions associated with actuality and potentiality, enabling the leveraging of many advances in philosophy and physics to unravel several long-standing philosophical problems.


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By: Jeremy D. Fackenthal

ISBN: 9781498595100
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explores how thinking with Alfred North Whitehead and various continental philosophers can advance ideas about sustainability and civilization writ large. Contributors employ Whitehead and one or more continental thinkers around a given topic, whether philosophical or social, to produce the dislocations necessary for generating new ideas.


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By: Jeremy D. Fackenthal

ISBN: 9781498595124
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explores how thinking with Alfred North Whitehead and various continental philosophers can advance ideas about sustainability and civilization writ large. Contributors employ Whitehead and one or more continental thinkers around a given topic, whether philosophical or social, to produce the dislocations necessary for generating new ideas.


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By: Lisa Landoe Hedrick

ISBN: 9781793646576
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book investigates Alfred North Whitehead's critiques of analytic philosophy in early nineteenth-century Cambridge and examines the ways in which those critiques both anticipate the problem of intentionality and inform contemporary efforts to resolve itspecifically those of the Pittsburgh School.


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By: George Allan

ISBN: 9781793620057
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book argues that Whiteheads introduction of God into his process metaphysics renders it incoherent. Replacing roles assigned to God with the powers inherent in finite entities, George Allan recovers a coherent presentation of the truth of times primacy, using Whiteheads major writings.