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Zusammenfassung: | "Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), a mathematician and logician by training, is the author of highly original works at the crossroads of science and philosophy, exploring the nature of the world around us and its temporal flow. Convinced that everyday terms distort reality, Whitehead invented or borrowed terms more appropriate to his project. The word "Process", which gives its title to his most famous work Process and Reality (1929), is central to his thinking. Process introduces his vision of nature as a succession of crystallizations, each of which proves the finite granularity of time: the instant does not exist. It also implies a confrontation with the theory of relativity and quantum physics. Whitehead's perspective allows for the occurrence of creative novelties, but for which the world necessarily cooperates with a deity, the role of which is examined in this book's last chapter. In Alfred North Whitehead, Philosopher of Time, author Rémy Lestienne mixes biographical elements and intellectual advances, from logicism to philosophies of nature. A compelling introduction to Whitehead's demanding work, this book deciphers a metaphysical landscape often considered too abstract to be approachable, but points out the philosopher's imperfections with respect to the scientific advances of our time"-- |
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adam_text | Contents Preface.......................................................................................... xi About the Author....................................................................... xiii Chapter 1 : A Brilliant Mathematician............................... 1 Whiteheads Childhood...................................... 1 Whitehead at Cambridge................................... 3 The ‘Apostles’....................................................... 4 The Tripos of Mathematics................................ 7 Whitehead, Niven, Thomson, and Maxwell.... 8 Russell, Student, and then Colleague of Whitehead......................................................... 10 Principia Mathematica...................................... 12 Meeting with Evelyn Wade.............................. 14 Chapter 2: The Point Is an Abstraction: The Method of Extensive Abstraction....... 17 The Method of Extensive Abstraction in The Concept ofNature.......................................23 Measurements in Space-Time and the Congruence Problem........................................28 Primacy of Time Measurements..................... 29 Chapter 3: Whitehead in London: Philosophical Encounters....................................................... 31 An Eventful Resignation.................................. 32 World War I and the Russell Dispute............. 34
vi Contents The Aristotelian Society and the English Emergentist Movement.................................... 37 Whitehead and Bergson................................... 45 After the War.....................................................49 Departure for America..................................... 53 Chapter 4: The Instant Does Not Exist: Rebuttal of Descartes’ and Newton’s Time.................. ....55 If the Instant Doesn’t Exist, then the Time of Descartes and Newton Doesn’t Represent Real Time, It’s an Abstraction, and a Mutilation.......................................................... 70 Chapter 5: The Successive Crystallisations or ‘Concrescences’ of Reality.............................. 73 Concrescences................................................... 74 Incorporating the Thickness of the Past into the Present.......................................................... 78 A Look Back at the Concrescences................. 79 Actual Occasions............................................... 81 Satisfaction......................................................... 84 Appearance and Reality.................................... 86 Concreteness and Contemporaneity.............. 87 Chapter 6: Permanence of Objects, Causality, and Bifurcations of the Becoming....................... 91 The Prehensions............................................... 93 Classical Causality and Temporal Irreversibility..................................................... 97 The Permanence of Objects............................. 99 ‘Feelings’ and Physical Laws.......................... 101
Conceptual Prehensions: The Uncertain Future................................................................ 104
Contents Chapter 7: vii World Solidarity and Quantum Entanglement.......................109 Quantum Mechanics Denies the Idea of Spatial Localisation........................................ 110 What Happens When Two Interacting Quantum Systems Separate?......................... 114 Experimental Evidence of Inseparability..... 117 The Solidarity of the World According to Whitehead........................................................ 122 Potentiality, Reality, Actuality.........................127 Chapter 8: The Space-Time of Relativity and Whitehead’s Extensive Continuum............ 133 Special and General Relativity: From Einstein to Whitehead.................................... 133 Special Relativity....................................... 133 General Relativity...................................... 139 Practical Consequences on the Behaviour of Clocks.................................. 140 Whitehead Reads of Einsteins Work...... 142 Whitehead Criticises Einsteins Approach to Relativity......................................................143 Development of a Rival Theory of Gravitation.......................................................146 The Extensive Space-Time Continuum.. 147 Failures of the Whiteheadian Theory and Their Epistemological Meanings....................149 Chapter 9: Process and Time........................................... 153 The Engine of the World Is Not Time, but the Process....................................................... 153 Construction of Mathematical Time............. 156 Real Time and Potentiality.............................. 159
viii Contents Reiteration and Novelty.................................. 161 Do the Laws of Physics Evolve?......................165 Time and Creation.......................................... 166 Chapter 10: Free Will Saved from Determinism?.......... 169 Changing the Destination of Peripheral Nerves to Observe Changes in Motor Behaviour.........................................................171 Pain as a Key to Testing Mind-Body Relationships.................................................... 174 Passing from Animal Peripheral Nerves to the Human Brain............................................. 175 The Unity of Consciousness........................... 180 Restoring Free Will?........................................ 186 Philosophical Critique of Emergent Consciousness................................................. 187 Chapter 11 : Whitehead’s God............................................ 195 After Erics Death............................................ 197 Reading Space, Time, and Deity.................... 198 Whiteheads God and Time........................... 200 God as the Driving Force for Concrescence and Creativity.................................................. 203 Primordial and Consequent Nature of God............................................................... 207 Religion in the Making..................................... 210 Mysticism and Process Theology.................. 218
Contents ix Epilogue....................................................................................... 223 Bibliography................................................................................ 229 Index of Names........................................................................... 231 Glossary and Thematic Index.................................................... 233
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Contents Preface. xi About the Author. xiii Chapter 1 : A Brilliant Mathematician. 1 Whiteheads Childhood. 1 Whitehead at Cambridge. 3 The ‘Apostles’. 4 The Tripos of Mathematics. 7 Whitehead, Niven, Thomson, and Maxwell. 8 Russell, Student, and then Colleague of Whitehead. 10 Principia Mathematica. 12 Meeting with Evelyn Wade. 14 Chapter 2: The Point Is an Abstraction: The Method of Extensive Abstraction. 17 The Method of Extensive Abstraction in The Concept ofNature.23 Measurements in Space-Time and the Congruence Problem.28 Primacy of Time Measurements. 29 Chapter 3: Whitehead in London: Philosophical Encounters. 31 An Eventful Resignation. 32 World War I and the Russell Dispute. 34
vi Contents The Aristotelian Society and the English Emergentist Movement. 37 Whitehead and Bergson. 45 After the War.49 Departure for America. 53 Chapter 4: The Instant Does Not Exist: Rebuttal of Descartes’ and Newton’s Time. .55 If the Instant Doesn’t Exist, then the Time of Descartes and Newton Doesn’t Represent Real Time, It’s an Abstraction, and a Mutilation. 70 Chapter 5: The Successive Crystallisations or ‘Concrescences’ of Reality. 73 Concrescences. 74 Incorporating the Thickness of the Past into the Present. 78 A Look Back at the Concrescences. 79 Actual Occasions. 81 Satisfaction. 84 Appearance and Reality. 86 Concreteness and Contemporaneity. 87 Chapter 6: Permanence of Objects, Causality, and Bifurcations of the Becoming. 91 The Prehensions. 93 Classical Causality and Temporal Irreversibility. 97 The Permanence of Objects. 99 ‘Feelings’ and Physical Laws. 101
Conceptual Prehensions: The Uncertain Future. 104
Contents Chapter 7: vii World Solidarity and Quantum Entanglement.109 Quantum Mechanics Denies the Idea of Spatial Localisation. 110 What Happens When Two Interacting Quantum Systems Separate?. 114 Experimental Evidence of Inseparability. 117 The Solidarity of the World According to Whitehead. 122 Potentiality, Reality, Actuality.127 Chapter 8: The Space-Time of Relativity and Whitehead’s Extensive Continuum. 133 Special and General Relativity: From Einstein to Whitehead. 133 Special Relativity. 133 General Relativity. 139 Practical Consequences on the Behaviour of Clocks. 140 Whitehead Reads of Einsteins Work. 142 Whitehead Criticises Einsteins Approach to Relativity.143 Development of a Rival Theory of Gravitation.146 The Extensive Space-Time Continuum. 147 Failures of the Whiteheadian Theory and Their Epistemological Meanings.149 Chapter 9: Process and Time. 153 The Engine of the World Is Not Time, but the Process. 153 Construction of Mathematical Time. 156 Real Time and Potentiality. 159
viii Contents Reiteration and Novelty. 161 Do the Laws of Physics Evolve?.165 Time and Creation. 166 Chapter 10: Free Will Saved from Determinism?. 169 Changing the Destination of Peripheral Nerves to Observe Changes in Motor Behaviour.171 Pain as a Key to Testing Mind-Body Relationships. 174 Passing from Animal Peripheral Nerves to the Human Brain. 175 The Unity of Consciousness. 180 Restoring Free Will?. 186 Philosophical Critique of Emergent Consciousness. 187 Chapter 11 : Whitehead’s God. 195 After Erics Death. 197 Reading Space, Time, and Deity. 198 Whiteheads God and Time. 200 God as the Driving Force for Concrescence and Creativity. 203 Primordial and Consequent Nature of God. 207 Religion in the Making. 210 Mysticism and Process Theology. 218
Contents ix Epilogue. 223 Bibliography. 229 Index of Names. 231 Glossary and Thematic Index. 233 |
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