Concept of Nature - Tarner Lectures

Informationen zum Autor An English mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead provided the foundation for the school of thought known as process philosophy. With an academic career that spanned from Cambridge to Harvard, Whitehead wrote extensively on mathematics, metaphysis, and philosophy. He died in Massachusetts in 1947. Klappentext This book is an exploration of the fundamental metaphysical problems of substance, space and time. Zusammenfassung This influential discussion of the fundamental metaphysical problems of space! time and substance continues to be important and illuminating for philosophers and scientists alike. With a specially commissioned preface written by Michael Hampe! this book is presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery for a new generation of readers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to this edition Michael Hampe; Preface; 1. Nature and thought; 2. Theories of the bifurcation of nature; 3. Time; 4. The method of extensive abstraction; 5. Space and motion; 6. Congruence; 7. Objects; 8. Summary; 9. The ultimate physical concepts; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Alfred North Whitehead
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107113732
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11373-2
• No. of pages: 141
• Series: Cambridge Philosophy Classics; Cambridge Philosophy Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works