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.”
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| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work → |
| author |
Alfred North Whitehead
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| basedOn |
Gifford Lectures
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| centralThesis |
reality is fundamentally constituted by processes rather than substances
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| correctedEditionEditor |
David Ray Griffin
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Donald W. Sherburne NERFINISHED → |
| correctedEditionPublisher |
Free Press
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| correctedEditionYear |
1978
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| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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| firstPublicationYear |
1929
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| genre |
metaphysics
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process philosophy → |
| influenced |
American pragmatism
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continental philosophy → ecological philosophy → philosophy of religion → process theology → systematic theology → |
| language |
English
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| lectureLocation |
University of Edinburgh
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| mainConcept |
God
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actual entity → actual occasions → concrescence → creativity → eternal objects → nexus → organism → prehension → process → |
| metaphysicalSystem |
philosophy of organism
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process thought → |
| notableEdition |
Corrected Edition
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| ontologicalClaim |
actual occasions are the final real things of which the world is made up
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| partTitle |
Part I: The Speculative Scheme
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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
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| philosophicalTradition |
analytic philosophy
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continental philosophy → process philosophy → |
| publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Macmillan → |
| structure |
five parts
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| subtitle |
An Essay in Cosmology
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| viewOfGod |
dipolar theism
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Referenced by (4)
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Science and the Modern World
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followedBy |
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Adventures of Ideas
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follows |
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Alfred North Whitehead
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notableWork |
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The Concept of Nature
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relatedWork |