Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead

To quote Rorty (who is certainly no Whiteheadian), American philosophical thought 'began taking its cue from Frege rather than Locke.' Broadly considered, this meant that language rather than experience, mind rather than body, was taken to be the most serious matter for philosophy. These thinkers have in recent decades been resurrected by contemporary neopragmatists, most notably Richard Rorty, who look back at the arid desert of mid-twentieth century philosophy and wonder how far we have come after all. Alfred North Whitehead Process And Reality Shirt Alfred North Whitehead Process And Reality Hoodie Alfred North Whitehead Process And Reality Sweatshirt. Process and reality by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929, The Macmillan Company, University Press edition, in English.

Among these philosophers were Dewey and James.

Because of this turn, certain philosophers and ways of doing philosophy all but stopped being considered. The book, published in 1929, is a revision of the Gifford Lectures he gave in 192728. It is a turn many of us, looking back, wish it had never made. Process and Reality is a book by Alfred North Whitehead, in which the author propounds a philosophy of organism, also called process philosophy. Title, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology Gifford lectures Author, Alfred North Whitehead Publisher, Social Science Book Store, 1941 Original from. In the spirit of the times, language made its way to the forefront of philosophy, the end result being (among other things) Positivism and a scientistic approach to the Geisteswissenschaften. Alfred North Whitehead (18611947) was a British mathematician, logician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and the philosophy of science. Early in this century American philosophy made a 'linguistic' turn that determined the direction it would take all the way to the present day. Process thought, also known as process philosophy or process theology, is a system of thought with its essential description in Alfred North Whiteheads.

Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead