The Metaphysics of Experience: A Companion to Whitehead's Process and Reality
Elizabeth M. Kraus
Abstract
This book styles itself as “a Sherpa guide to Process and Reality, whose function is to assist the serious reader in grasping the meaning of the text and to prevent falls into misinterpretation.” Although originally published in 1925, Process and Reality has perhaps even more relevance to the contemporary scene in physics, biology, psychology, and the social sciences than it had in the mid-twenties. Hence, its internal difficulty, its quasi-inaccessibility, is all the more tragic, since, unlike most metaphysical endeavors, it is capable of interpreting and unifying theories in the above scienc ... More
Keywords: metaphysics, Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, modern philosophy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1997 | Print ISBN-13: 9780823217953 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: May 2019 | DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823217953.001.0001 |
