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1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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European studies in process thought ; 3
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"This volume is a selection of the papers presented at the "Second European Summer School for Process Thought", which took place in Mülheim, Germany, from August 5-10, 2012."--Preface. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Part I: Methodology; On the Relation of The Function of Reason and Process and Reality; The Implicit Logic of Whitehead's Metaphysical System; Process Ontology; Language and Symbolism; The Extensive Continuum as Indefinite Real Potentiality; Part II: Application; 1. Physics; Milic Capek; The Problem of Novelty and the Atomization of Time; Whitehead's Copernican Turn; 2. Religion; Why is the Unison not Eurythmic?; The Problematic of Harmony in Classical Chinese Religious Thought; Against Dogmatic Finality; 3. Education and Psychology |
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Idealist Thinking in Coleridge, Emerson and WhiteheadIgnatian and Whiteheadian Educational Process; Signs in the Flesh; Contributors |
| Summary |
This volume brings together the proceedings of the "European Summer School for Process Thought", which took place in Mülheim, Germany, in August 2012. It explores Alfred North Whitehead's thinking in different fields of science, connecting his philosophical writings with physics, religion, education, psychology and aesthetics. The first part of the book is concerned with Whitehead's philosophical methodology, discussing a plethora of subjects, including the interdependence between some of Whitehead's works, the role of logic in his style of argument, concepts of time, the role of symbolism, an. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947 -- Congresses.
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Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. |
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Process philosophy -- Congresses.
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Process philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Berve, Aljoscha, 1984- editor.
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Maassen, Helmut, 1946- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: A.N. Whitehead's thought through a new prism. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 1443899607 (OCoLC)964377486 |
| ISBN |
9781443860918 (electronic book) |
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1443860913 (electronic book) |
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1443899607 |
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9781443899604 |
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