Speculative Empiricism : Revisiting Whitehead.

By: Stengers, IsabelleContributor(s): Weber, Tomas JosephMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017Copyright date: �2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (198 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781474423069Subject(s): Whitehead, Alfred North,-1861-1947-Criticism, Textual | Whitehead, Alfred North,-1861-1947.-Process and reality | EmpiricismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Speculative EmpiricismDDC classification: 192 LOC classification: B1674.W354 .D43213 2017Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Speculative Empiricism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Translator's Note -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Speculative Philosophy: Method and Function -- 2 What is Speculative Philosophy? -- 3 Creativity as Ultimate Principle -- 4 Actualising Creativity -- Part II The Speculative Approach to Existence: Process and Individuation -- 5 What is a Process of Individuation? -- 6 What is the Subject? -- 7 Realisation of Self and Power -- 8 Pure Potentiality and Actuality -- 9 Temporal Dimensions of Actual Entities -- Part III Experiences and Societies: Thinking Nature -- 10 A Universe of Societies -- 11 The Mode of Existence of Societies -- 12 Nature and Societies -- 13 Conclusion: What is Speculative Empiricism? -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: Didier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead's attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience, giving us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.
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Intro -- Speculative Empiricism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Translator's Note -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Speculative Philosophy: Method and Function -- 2 What is Speculative Philosophy? -- 3 Creativity as Ultimate Principle -- 4 Actualising Creativity -- Part II The Speculative Approach to Existence: Process and Individuation -- 5 What is a Process of Individuation? -- 6 What is the Subject? -- 7 Realisation of Self and Power -- 8 Pure Potentiality and Actuality -- 9 Temporal Dimensions of Actual Entities -- Part III Experiences and Societies: Thinking Nature -- 10 A Universe of Societies -- 11 The Mode of Existence of Societies -- 12 Nature and Societies -- 13 Conclusion: What is Speculative Empiricism? -- Works Cited -- Index.

Didier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead's attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience, giving us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.

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