George R. Lucas, Jr. , is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University in South Carolina.

"Lucas' book competently brings Whitehead's philosophy into dialogue with "analytic" philosophy. This is a topic of great originality and considerable potential importance for the field of philosophy. The writing is forceful, concise, and clear." — George L. Kline, Bryn Mawr College

• Preface I. Systematic Philosophy and the Rehabilitation of Whitehead Systematic Philosophy of the "Death of Philosophy"Systematic Philosophy as Public PhilosophyThe Relevance of WhiteheadThe Rehabilitation of Whitehead PART ONE: Philosophy Before Whitehead II. Evolution and the Emergence of Process Metaphysics On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for LifeThe Structure of Philosophic RevolutionsEvolution and RevolutionGerman Idealism and Romantic NaturphilosophieThe Convergence of Post-Hegelian Idealism and Later Evolutionary CosmologySummary III. Realism, Idealism, and the Development of Whitehead's Philosophy The Realist RevoltThe Significance of Whitehead's PhilosophyConcluding Summary PART TWO: Whitehead and the Historical Tradition IV. Whitehead and Evolutionary Cosmologies The Importance of Evolutionary CosmologyHistorical Reprise of Evolutionary CosmologyThe Influence of Evolutionary Cosmology on WhiteheadWhitehead's Philosophical Differences from Evolutionary CosmologyWhitehead's Distinctive Contributions to Speculative Metaphysics vis-a-vis Evolutionary CosmologyConclusion V. Whitehead's Understanding of Kant Whitehead's Aversion to IdealismWhitehead and the Problem of KantThe Misappropriation of KantWhitehead's Significant InnovationsConclusion VI. Whitehead, Hegel, and the Philosophy of Nature Whitehead's Theory of Organic MechanismHegel's Philosophy of NatureThe Later Discussion of Nature in Hegel's EncyclopediaConclusion VII. Whitehead and Russell Some Important DifferencesSome Important SimilaritiesSubstantive Philosophical ComparisonsConclusion PART THREE: The Future of Process Philosophy VIII. Analytic and Post-Analytic Themes in Whitehead's Metaphysics Whitehead's Exclusion from the Philosophic MainstreamThe Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThe Logic of Scientific DiscoveryPhilosophy and the Mirror of NaturePossible WorldsMind, Body, Agency, and Personal IdentityThe Reconception of Experience IX. Recent Developments in Process Metaphysics Process Metaphysics and the Problem of FreedomFreedom and the Problem of Human AgencyFreedom and Enduring SubstanceSubstance, Causality, and IdentityTheism and NaturalismThe Causal Objectification of the PastBecoming and BeingThe Compositional Analysis of Whitehead's WritingsConclusion X. Philosophy of Science and Philosopy of Nature The Theory of RelativityBell's Theorem and Causal Explanations in Quantum MechanicsDavid Bohm: Physics and the "Implicate Order"From Physics to a Systematic Philosophy of Nature Conclusion: The Future of Philsophy and of Process Philosophy Notes Index

George R. Lucas, Jr. , is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University in South Carolina.

"Lucas' book competently brings Whitehead's philosophy into dialogue with "analytic" philosophy. This is a topic of great originality and considerable potential importance for the field of philosophy. The writing is forceful, concise, and clear." — George L. Kline, Bryn Mawr College

• Preface I. Systematic Philosophy and the Rehabilitation of Whitehead Systematic Philosophy of the "Death of Philosophy"Systematic Philosophy as Public PhilosophyThe Relevance of WhiteheadThe Rehabilitation of Whitehead PART ONE: Philosophy Before Whitehead II. Evolution and the Emergence of Process Metaphysics On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for LifeThe Structure of Philosophic RevolutionsEvolution and RevolutionGerman Idealism and Romantic NaturphilosophieThe Convergence of Post-Hegelian Idealism and Later Evolutionary CosmologySummary III. Realism, Idealism, and the Development of Whitehead's Philosophy The Realist RevoltThe Significance of Whitehead's PhilosophyConcluding Summary PART TWO: Whitehead and the Historical Tradition IV. Whitehead and Evolutionary Cosmologies The Importance of Evolutionary CosmologyHistorical Reprise of Evolutionary CosmologyThe Influence of Evolutionary Cosmology on WhiteheadWhitehead's Philosophical Differences from Evolutionary CosmologyWhitehead's Distinctive Contributions to Speculative Metaphysics vis-a-vis Evolutionary CosmologyConclusion V. Whitehead's Understanding of Kant Whitehead's Aversion to IdealismWhitehead and the Problem of KantThe Misappropriation of KantWhitehead's Significant InnovationsConclusion VI. Whitehead, Hegel, and the Philosophy of Nature Whitehead's Theory of Organic MechanismHegel's Philosophy of NatureThe Later Discussion of Nature in Hegel's EncyclopediaConclusion VII. Whitehead and Russell Some Important DifferencesSome Important SimilaritiesSubstantive Philosophical ComparisonsConclusion PART THREE: The Future of Process Philosophy VIII. Analytic and Post-Analytic Themes in Whitehead's Metaphysics Whitehead's Exclusion from the Philosophic MainstreamThe Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThe Logic of Scientific DiscoveryPhilosophy and the Mirror of NaturePossible WorldsMind, Body, Agency, and Personal IdentityThe Reconception of Experience IX. Recent Developments in Process Metaphysics Process Metaphysics and the Problem of FreedomFreedom and the Problem of Human AgencyFreedom and Enduring SubstanceSubstance, Causality, and IdentityTheism and NaturalismThe Causal Objectification of the PastBecoming and BeingThe Compositional Analysis of Whitehead's WritingsConclusion X. Philosophy of Science and Philosopy of Nature The Theory of RelativityBell's Theorem and Causal Explanations in Quantum MechanicsDavid Bohm: Physics and the "Implicate Order"From Physics to a Systematic Philosophy of Nature Conclusion: The Future of Philsophy and of Process Philosophy Notes Index

George R. Lucas, Jr. , is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University in South Carolina.

"Lucas' book competently brings Whitehead's philosophy into dialogue with "analytic" philosophy. This is a topic of great originality and considerable potential importance for the field of philosophy. The writing is forceful, concise, and clear." — George L. Kline, Bryn Mawr College

• Preface I. Systematic Philosophy and the Rehabilitation of Whitehead Systematic Philosophy of the "Death of Philosophy"Systematic Philosophy as Public PhilosophyThe Relevance of WhiteheadThe Rehabilitation of Whitehead PART ONE: Philosophy Before Whitehead II. Evolution and the Emergence of Process Metaphysics On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for LifeThe Structure of Philosophic RevolutionsEvolution and RevolutionGerman Idealism and Romantic NaturphilosophieThe Convergence of Post-Hegelian Idealism and Later Evolutionary CosmologySummary III. Realism, Idealism, and the Development of Whitehead's Philosophy The Realist RevoltThe Significance of Whitehead's PhilosophyConcluding Summary PART TWO: Whitehead and the Historical Tradition IV. Whitehead and Evolutionary Cosmologies The Importance of Evolutionary CosmologyHistorical Reprise of Evolutionary CosmologyThe Influence of Evolutionary Cosmology on WhiteheadWhitehead's Philosophical Differences from Evolutionary CosmologyWhitehead's Distinctive Contributions to Speculative Metaphysics vis-a-vis Evolutionary CosmologyConclusion V. Whitehead's Understanding of Kant Whitehead's Aversion to IdealismWhitehead and the Problem of KantThe Misappropriation of KantWhitehead's Significant InnovationsConclusion VI. Whitehead, Hegel, and the Philosophy of Nature Whitehead's Theory of Organic MechanismHegel's Philosophy of NatureThe Later Discussion of Nature in Hegel's EncyclopediaConclusion VII. Whitehead and Russell Some Important DifferencesSome Important SimilaritiesSubstantive Philosophical ComparisonsConclusion PART THREE: The Future of Process Philosophy VIII. Analytic and Post-Analytic Themes in Whitehead's Metaphysics Whitehead's Exclusion from the Philosophic MainstreamThe Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThe Logic of Scientific DiscoveryPhilosophy and the Mirror of NaturePossible WorldsMind, Body, Agency, and Personal IdentityThe Reconception of Experience IX. Recent Developments in Process Metaphysics Process Metaphysics and the Problem of FreedomFreedom and the Problem of Human AgencyFreedom and Enduring SubstanceSubstance, Causality, and IdentityTheism and NaturalismThe Causal Objectification of the PastBecoming and BeingThe Compositional Analysis of Whitehead's WritingsConclusion X. Philosophy of Science and Philosopy of Nature The Theory of RelativityBell's Theorem and Causal Explanations in Quantum MechanicsDavid Bohm: Physics and the "Implicate Order"From Physics to a Systematic Philosophy of Nature Conclusion: The Future of Philsophy and of Process Philosophy Notes Index