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Process Metaphysics An introduction to process philosophy by Nicholas Rescher in 1996

philosophy, process philosophy, books, Nicholas Rescher

contents

1. Historical Background

    1. Prospect
    1. Heraclitus (6th Century B.C.)
    1. Plato and Aristotle
    1. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (16461717)
    1. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831)
    1. Charles Sanders Peirce (18391914)
    1. William James (18421910)
    1. Henri Bergson (18591941)
    1. John Dewey (18591952)
    1. Alfred North Whitehead (18611947)
    1. Wilmon H. Sheldon (18751981)

2. Basic Ideas

    1. The Process Approach and Its Alternatives
    1. Key Concepts and Categories
    1. What Is a Process?
    1. Modes of Process
    1. The Priority of Process: Against the Process Reducibility Thesis
    1. Processes and Dispositions

3. Process and Particulars

    1. Particulars
    1. Complexification
    1. Ongoing Identity as a Matter of Ongoing Reidentifiability: An Idealistic Perspective
    1. Against Strawson’s Critique of Processism
    1. Difficulties of Substantialism
    1. The Origination of Particulars

4. Process and Universals

    1. Process and “The Problem of Universals”
    1. Novelty, Innovation, Creativity
    1. Taxonomic Complexification

5. Process Philosophy of Nature

    1. Basic Ideas of a Process Philosophy of Nature
    1. Process and Existence
    1. Process and the Laws of Nature
    1. Space-Time
    1. The Quantum Aspect
    1. Process Philosophy and Evolutionary Optimism
    1. Validation

6. Process and Persons

    1. Difficulties of the Self and the Process Approach to Persons
    1. Mind and Matter in Processual Perspective
    1. Human Life as a Process: The General Idea of a Life Cycle
    1. Historical Process
    1. Transiency and Value

7. Process Logic and Epistemology

    1. Truth and Knowledge: The Processual Perspective
    1. Aristotle and Truth-Value Indeterminacy
    1. The Processual Nature of Knowledge and the Cognitive Inexhaustibility of Things
    1. Process and Experience
    1. Process and Communication

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