Process and reality by Alfred North Whitehead in 1929
I. The Speculative Scheme
1. Speculative philosophy
- 1.1 speculative philosophy; coherent logical necessary system of ideas; interpretation of experience
- 1.2 defects of insight and of language; conditions for observation; rigid empiricism, imagination, generalization; coherence and incoherence; creativity, the ultimate
- 1.3 rationalism and dogmatism; scheme as a matrix, false and true propositions, use of the matrix; experimental adventure
- 1.4 philosophy and science, grades of generality; dogmatic influence of mathematics; progress of philosophy
- 1.5 defects of language; propositions and their background; metaphysical presupposition; excessive trust in language; metaphysics and practice; metaphysics and linguistic expression
- 1.6 speculative philosophy and over ambition; over ambition, dogmatism and progress; interpretation and metaphysics; The higher elements of experience, subjectivity and the metaphysical correction; morality, religion, science, connected by philosophy; contrast between religion and science; conclusion