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Ethics of Energy
William James's Moral Philosophy in Focus
Inbunden, 2008
1962 kr
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William James's moral philosophy is neither a remaking of utilitarianism nor it is a theory of values as it is assumed by the majority of his interpreters. Instead James offers an ethical view consistently arising out of valorization of energy of his days, and effecting a counter-tendency to the …
Creativity and Its Discontents
The Response to Whitehead's Process and Reality
Inbunden, 2009
2035 kr
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"I do not expect a good reception from professional philosophers" wrote Whitehead in 1929, immediately after the publication of Process and Reality. Indeed, it took nearly thirty years before scholars seriously started to try to decipher the book taken as a whole. And there remains today …
Applied Process Thought II
Following a Trail Ablaze
Av Mark Dibben, Rebecca Newton
Inbunden, 2009
3021 kr
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Concentrating mainly on the process philosophy developed by Alfred North Whitehead, this series of essays brings together some of the newest developments in the application of process thinking to the physical and social sciences. These essays, by established scholars in the field, demonstrate how a …
Ideas in Process
A Study on the Development of Philosophical Concepts
Inbunden, 2009
1351 kr
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The book aims to provide a process-philosophical perspective philosophizing itself. It employs the perspectives of process philosophy for elucidating the historical development of philosophical ideas. The doctrine of historicism in the history of ideas has it that each era and perhaps even each …
Roar of Awakening
A Whiteheadian Dialogue Between Western Psychotherapies and Eastern Worldviews
Av George Derfer, Zhihe Wang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2035 kr
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The primary goal of this volume is to describe the contemporary state of affairs in Western psychotherapy, and to do so in a Whiteheadian spirit: with genuine openness to the relative ways in which creativity, beauty, truth, and peace manifest themselves in various cultural traditions. This …
After Whitehead
Rescher on Process Metaphysics
Av Michel Weber
Inbunden, 2004
1962 kr
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When Reschers Process Metaphysics (1996) was published, it was widely acclaimed as a major step towards the academic recognition of a mode of thought that has otherwise been confined within sharp scholarly boundaries. Of course it is not an easy book: despite its stylistic clarity, it remains the …
Process and the Authentic Life
Toward a Psychology of Value
Inbunden, 2005
2621 kr
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The thesis advanced in this book is that feeling and cognition actualize through a process that originates in older brain formations and develops outward through limbic and cortical fields through the self-concept and private space into (as) the world. An iteration of this transition deposits acts, …
Whitehead and China
Relevance and Relationships
Av Wenyu Xie, Zhihe Wang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1962 kr
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Whitehead acknowledged that 'the philosophy of organism seems to approximate more to some strains of.Chinese thought.' Some scholars have attempted to explore this relationship and its implications. The Beijing Conference provided a good forum for interested and engaged scholars to address each …
Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of Cosmology
Inbunden, 2006
1514 kr
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Einstein's General Theory of Relativity links the metrical structure of the cosmic order (or "cosmology") to the contingent distributions of matter and energy throughout the universe, one of the chief areas of investigation in astrophysics. However, presently we have neither devised nor discovered …
Basho of Economics
An Intercultural Analysis of the Process of Economics. Translated and Introduced by Roger Gathman
Av Silja Graupe
Inbunden, 2007
1665 kr
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In the parlance of modern Japanese philosophy, the term Basho denotes a field of experience underlying all conceptions of reality, while remaining itself conceptually ungraspable. The Basho of Economics, then, refers to the economy’s hidden experiential ground, which has never been explicitly …
Space, Time, and Theology in the Leibniz-Newton Controversy
Inbunden, 2006
1514 kr
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In the famous Correspondence with Clarke, which took place during the last year of Leibniz’s life, Leibniz advanced several arguments purporting to refute the absolute theory of space and time that was held by Newton and his followers. The main aim of this book is to reassess Leibniz’s attack on …
Process Philosophical Deliberations
Inbunden, 2006
1482 kr
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Process philosophy has established itself as one of the 20th century's prime contributions to philosophical thought and Nicholas Rescher has for many years figured among its prime exponents. His new book Process Philosophical Deliberations collects together ten studies illuminating various aspects …
Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality
Av Michel Weber, Pierfrancesco Basile
Inbunden, 2006
2321 kr
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This volume gathers prominent international scholars to celebrate the complex legacy of Reiner Wiehl, whose work has been instrumental in bringing together the European tradition of prima philosophia as represented by Plato, Spinoza, Kant and Hegel, with the adventurous speculative renewal of the …
Fringes of Religious Experience
Cross-perspectives on William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience
Av Sergio Francese, Felicitas Kraemer
Inbunden, 2007
1701 kr
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William James's Varieties of Religious Experience is one of the most renowned works of the famous psychologist and founder of pragmatism, and a fully accomplished anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of religion. In this book a selection of 10 papers from international scholars, previously …
Consciousness, Reality and Value
Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge
Av Pierfrancesco Basile, Leemon B. McHenry
Inbunden, 2007
2321 kr
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Timothy Sprigge has been a major player on the philosophical scene contributing to discussions as diverse as consciousness, the ontology of time, personal identity, animal rights, punishment, censorship and wider issues in metaphysics, ethics and the history of philosophy. He is, however, less well …
Applied Process Thought
Initial Explorations in Theory and Research
Inbunden, 2008
2321 kr
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Concentrating mainly on the process philosophy developed by Alfred North Whitehead, this series of essays brings together some of the newest developments in the application of process thinking to the physical and social sciences. These essays, by established scholars in the field, demonstrate how a …
Process and Personality
Actualization of the Personal World With Process-Oriented Methods
Av Gudmund J. W. Smith, Ingegerd M. Carlsson
Inbunden, 2008
2321 kr
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This book is a joint effort of like-minded researchers to define the concept of process within a psychological setting. Although minor differences exist as regards choice of background theory, their common focus is on personality in a broad psychodynamic context. Their definition of personality …
Process and Pluralism
Chinese Thought on the Harmony of Diversity
Av Zhihe Wang
Inbunden, 2013
1800 kr
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This book offers a uniquely process relational oriented Chinese approach to inter-religious dialogue called Chinese Harmonism. The key features of Chinese harmonism are peaceful co-existence, mutual transformation, and openness to change. As developed with help from Whiteheadian process thought, …
Neuropsychology and Philosophy of Mind in Process
Essays in Honor of Jason W. Brown
Av Maria Pachalska, Michel Weber
Inbunden, 2008
3021 kr
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This volume celebrates the life achievements of Jason W. Brown, who, along with Jean Piaget, Heinz Werner, Alexander Luria and the Würzburg school, has significantly contributed to the development of a process-based theory of brain/mind capable of challenging the currently fashionable modularist or …
Whitehead's Pancreativism
Jamesian Applications
Av Michel Weber
Inbunden, 2010
2321 kr
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Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics has provided tools to understand Whitehead secundum Whitehead. We now seek to bring him in dialogue with James. It will be a pragmatic dialogue looking for two types of synergy: to establish the relevance of a Jamesian background to read Whitehead, and to …
Whitehead's Pancreativism
The Basics
Av Michel Weber
Inbunden, 2006
1753 kr
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There is one question that any potential reader who suspects that Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) might be important for past, contemporary, and future philosophy inevitably raises: how should I read Whitehead? How can I make sense of this incredibly dense tissue of imaginative systematizing, …
How is Global Dialogue Possible?
Foundational Reseach on Value Conflicts and Perspectives for Global Policy
Av Johanna Seibt, Jesper Garsdal
Inbunden, 2014
1962 kr
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Intercultural dialogue is often invoked in vague reference to a method that can build cross-cultural understanding and facilitate global policy-making. This book clarifies the theoretical foundations of intercultural dialogue and demonstrates the practical significance of intercultural value …
Metaphysics of Becoming
On the Relationship between Creativity and God in Whitehead and Supermind and Sachchidananda in Aurobindo
Inbunden, 2014
2492 kr
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This study attempts to elucidate a possible meeting point of the traditions of Eastern and Western metaphysical thinking. In discussing Whitehead’s and Aurobindo’s views on being and becoming, it seeks the possibility of a better engagement between the East and the West in the light of the …
Life and Process
Towards a New Biophilosophy
Inbunden, 2014
2141 kr
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Alfred North Whitehead is arguably the most original 20th-century philosopher of nature and metaphysics. In recent decades a number of physicists have produced ground-breaking new theories in fundamental physics influenced by his process philosophy. In contrast, few biologists are even aware that …
Physics and Speculative Philosophy
Potentiality in Modern Science
Av Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1402 kr
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Through both an historical and philosophical analysis of the concept of possibility, we show how including both potentiality and actuality as part of the real is both compatible with experience and contributes to solving key problems of fundamental process and emergence. The book is organized into …
Ort ökonomischen Denkens
Die Methodologie der Wirtschaftswissenschaften im Licht japanischer Philosophie
Av Silja Graupe
Häftad, 2019
266 kr
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Der interkulturelle Dialog mit der japanischen Philosophie erhellt die verborgenen, unreflektierten Denkgewohnheiten der Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Die Andersartigkeit japanischen Denkens macht den impliziten methodologischen Grundrahmen der Ökonomie sichtbar, verweist kritisch auf Widersprüche …
Process Realism in Physics
How Experiment and History Necessitate a Process Ontology
Av William Penn
Inbunden, 2023
1410 kr
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Science should tell us what the world is like. However, realist interpretations of physics face many problems, chief among them the pessimistic meta induction. This book seeks to develop a realist position based on process ontology that avoids the traditional problems of realism. Primarily, the …
Process Realism in Physics
How Experiment and History Necessitate a Process Ontology
Av William Penn
Häftad, 2025
276 kr
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Science should tell us what the world is like. However, realist interpretations of physics face many problems, chief among them the pessimistic meta induction. This book seeks to develop a realist position based on process ontology that avoids the traditional problems of realism. Primarily, the …
