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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Canadiana
Author: Religion in the Making
Author: Alfred North WhiteheadPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Process and Reality
Author: Alfred North WhiteheadPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439118361
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is 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 Reality propounds 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 Reality is a standard reference for scholars of all backgrounds.
Adventures of Ideas
Author: Alfred North WhiteheadPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0029351707
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
History of the human race from the point of view of mankind's changing ideas--sociological, cosmological, philosophica.
The Mind-Body Problem and Its Solution (Second Edition)
Author: Carey R. CarlsonPublisher: Go to Publish
ISBN: 9781950073924
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
OVER THE LAST CENTURY scientists have made tremendous strides in understanding the physical nature of the universe and the biochemical nature of life. Yet the most salient feature of individual lives--our day-to-day consciousness and experience of the world, or "sentience"--remains stubbornly immune to scientific explanation. This divide is called the "mind-body problem," and it is centuries old. In this book, author Carey Carlson performs two valuable tasks. First, he lays out the mind-body problem in crystalline common-sense prose. Second, he proposes an intriguing solution based on the work of early-twentieth-century philosophers Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead. This book will be of interest both to general readers of science and philosophy and to those steeped in the literature. The second edition includes additional arrow diagrams in Chapter 5 that fortify Russell and Whitehead's view of physics as a causal web of time-ordered events.
Consilience
Author: E. O. WilsonPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804154066
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." —The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest scientists—and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants—gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities. Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.
The Poetics of Evil
Author: Philip TallonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199778930
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
What role do art and aesthetics play in unravelling the theological problem of evil? Philip Tallon constructs an aesthetic theodicy through a fascinating examination of Christian aesthetics, ranging from the writings of Augustine to contemporary philosophy.
A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality
Author: Alfred North WhiteheadPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226752933
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Whitehead's magnum opus is as important as it is difficult. It is the only work in which his metaphysical ideas are stated systematically and completely, and his metaphysics are the heart of his philosophical system as a whole. Sherburne has rearranged the text in a way designed to lead the student logically and coherently through the intricacies of the system without losing the vigor of Whitehead's often brilliant prose. "The Key renders Process and Reality pedagogically accessible for the first time."—Journal of Religion
God and the World
Author: John B. CobbPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1579104452
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Author: Gregory BatesonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226039053
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.