Process and Reality

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Process and Reality is Alfred North Whitehead’s seminal philosophical work that lays out his influential process philosophy and metaphysical system of “process thought.”


Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf book
philosophical work
author Alfred North Whitehead
basedOn Gifford Lectures
centralThesis reality is fundamentally constituted by processes rather than substances
correctedEditionEditor David Ray Griffin
Donald W. Sherburne NERFINISHED
correctedEditionPublisher Free Press
correctedEditionYear 1978
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationYear 1929
genre metaphysics
process philosophy
influenced American pragmatism
continental philosophy
ecological philosophy
philosophy of religion
process theology
systematic theology
language English
lectureLocation University of Edinburgh
mainConcept God
actual entity
actual occasions
concrescence
creativity
eternal objects
nexus
organism
prehension
process
metaphysicalSystem philosophy of organism
process thought
notableEdition Corrected Edition
ontologicalClaim actual occasions are the final real things of which the world is made up
partTitle Part I: The Speculative Scheme
Part II: Discussions and Applications
Part III: The Theory of Prehensions
Part IV: The Theory of Extension
Part V: Final Interpretation
philosophicalAim to construct a comprehensive speculative cosmology
philosophicalTradition analytic philosophy
continental philosophy
process philosophy
publisher Cambridge University Press
Macmillan
structure five parts
subtitle An Essay in Cosmology
viewOfGod dipolar theism


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