Process and Analysis: Whitehead, Hartshorne, and the Analytic Tradition (Suny Series in Philosophy)

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Author: George W. Shields

ISBN-10: 0791455742

ISBN-13: 9780791455746

Category: European & American Philosophy

Process and Analysis brings together an unprecedented collection of the world's leading contemporary process and analytic philosophers of explore philosophical topics of common interest. The contributors examine a wide variety of explicit and implicit commonalities and differences of approach to such central philosophical issues as the nature and status of events, time, space, relations, particulars, and God. This unique collection demonstrates that both traditions have important things to...

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Eleven senior scholars in philosophy (one is in Canada, the rest teach in the US) have contributed essays on themes shared by process and analytic philosophy. Topics include notions of metaphysics according to Whitehead and Wittgenstein, disanalogies between space and time, relational particulars in light of Whitehead's metaphysics, and de re modality and ontological argument. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

PrefaceAbbreviationsPt. 1Overviews1Introduction: On the Interface of Analytic and Process Philosophy32The Promise of Process Philosophy493Whitehead and Wittgenstein: The Critique of Enlightenment and the Question Concerning Metaphysics67Pt. 2Process Philosophy and Issues in Analytic Metaphysics4Disanalogies Between Space and Time975Relational Particulars and Whitehead's Metaphysics1196Whitehead and the Analysis of the Propositional Function1397Quine and Whitehead: Ontology and Methodology1578Response to Leemon McHenry1719De Re Modality and the Ontological Argument17510The Second Epistemic Way19911The Logic of Future Contingents209Notes on Contributors247Index of Names251