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A key to Whitehead's Process and reality by Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947, Sherburne, Donald W is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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viii, 263 pages ; 21 cm, Text rearranged by the editor from an abridged ed, Includes index, The actual entity -- Prehensions -- Satisfaction, superject, and objective immortality -- The ontological principle -- The formative elements -- Eternal objects -- God -- Creativity -- The phasis of concrescence -- Phase I: conformal feelings -- Phase II: conceptual feelings -- Phase III: simple comparative feelings -- Phase IV: complex comparative feelings -- Satisfaction -- Nexus and the macrocosmic -- Transmutation -- Nexus and order -- Psychological physiology -- Perception -- Causal efficacy -- Presentational immediacy -- Symbolic reference -- Perception, causation, and Whitehead's rebuttal of Hume -- Whitehead and other philosophers -- Descartes (and Hume) -- Locke (and Hume) -- Kant -- Newton -- Newton and Plato -- Modern science -- God and the world -- The ideal opposites -- Appendix. In defense of speculative philosophy

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947, Sherburne, Donald W
Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Published
1981
Language
EN
ISBN
9780226752938
Category
science
Subjects
Philosophy, Science, Humanities
Rating
4.6 / 5 (32 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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