Process Pragmatism

Essays on a Quiet Philosophical Revolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-420-0985-1
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 137, 185 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Studies in Pragmatism and Values

This book discusses Process Pragmatism, the view that whatever is, derives from interactions. The contributors examine and defend its merits by focusing on major topics, including truth, the existence of unobservables, the origin of knowledge, scientific activity, mathematical functions, laws of nature, and moral agency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Debrock, Guy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Foreword by John R. Shook
Preface by Guy Debrock
ONE Guy DEBROCK: Introduction: Process Pragmatism
TWO Sandra B. ROSENTHAL: Pragmatic Process Philosophy: A Uniquely Powerful Paradigm
THREE Carl HAUSMAN: Charles Peirce’s Evolutionary Realism as a Process Philosophy
FOUR Jaime NUBIOLA: The Law of Reason and the Law of Love
FIVE Johan SIEBERS: Self-consciousness: A Pragmatic Process Approach
SIX James BRADLEY: The Generalization of the Mathematical Function: A Speculative Analysis
SEVEN Palmyre OOMEN: Immanence and Divine Persuasion: Whitehead’s Provocative View on the Laws of Nature
EIGHT Herman C.D. DE REGT: Restless Thought: A Pragmatist View on Belief and Scientific Realism
NINE Michael H.G. HOFFMANN: Peirce’s “Diagrammatic Reasoning”: A Solution of the Learning Paradox
TEN Rowland STOUT: The Life of a Process
ELEVEN Guy DEBROCK: Ethics and Pragmatic Process Philosophy
About the Authors
Index