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Informationen zum Autor Pierfrancesco Basile is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Klappentext 'Whitehead's speculative cosmology and willingness to reform language in its service set him against the philosophical trends of his time. Pierfrancesco Basile's discerning study eschews adulation, revealing a carefully revolutionary Whitehead grappling with matter, mind and metaphysics, a tempered rationalist indebted to Leibniz, whose philosophy "escapes any easy judgment."'Peter Simons, Trinity College DublinHow Whitehead's metaphysics developed out of his reading of the history of philosophyAt the beginning of his magnum opus, Process and Reality (1929), Whitehead lists a series of beliefs which he thinks are widely held by contemporary philosophers. They are all condemned as dangerously mistaken.What are these myths? Why are they rejected? In the works of which modern thinkers did they arise? What precisely went wrong? At what stage in the development of Western thought did this happen? By tackling these questions, Pierfrancesco Basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts of Whitehead's process metaphysics - especially the crucial notion that being and power are one and the same - as well as to appreciate the complex way this is rooted in the modern philosophical tradition.Pierfrancesco Basile is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bern and at the KSA Luzern, Switzerland.Cover image: © iStockphoto.comCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBNBarcode Zusammenfassung Pierfrancesco Basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts of Whitehead’s process metaphysics – especially the crucial notion that being and power are one and the same – and appreciate the complex way this is rooted in the modern philosophical tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPart I. In Search of a New Metaphysics1. Introduction: Metaphysics, Science, Common Sense2. Speculative Metaphysics: Defining the IdealPart II. From Permanence to Process3. Deconstructing Tradition: Substance Revisited4. The Flowing Self: From Monads to Actual Occasions5. Overcoming the Cartesian Legacy: The Process Concept of SubstancePart III. From Process to Permanence6. Changing Shapes of Reality: Understanding Nature under a Social Analogy7. Theological Afterthoughts: A Neo-Platonic God for a Darwinian Universe?8. Conclusion: The Ethics of Creativity - A Deweyan CritiqueAppendix: The Making of a Metaphysician - a Biographical NoteBibliographyIndex...
