Science and Mind in Contemporary Process Thought
Title | Science and Mind in Contemporary Process Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Jakub Dziadkowiec |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2019-09-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1527540081 |
The relationship of mind to matter, and the very understanding of mind and matter still eludes understanding, even after millennia of philosophical work and centuries of scientific reflection. The present volume shows how process philosophy helps us in conceptualizing such problems. The reader will find twelve chapters—written by prominent specialists of various specializations—discussing the relation between a processual school of thinking and natural and psychological scientific research, with a focus on the problems of mind and experience. The three successive sections of the book scrutinise in increasing detail the human mind, to give the full overview of the role that process philosophy might play in providing a consistent, unified language for the description of physical and mental reality.
Science and the Modern World
Title | Science and the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred North Whitehead |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780521800617 |
Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific discovery. Taking readers through the history of modern science, Whitehead shows how cultural history has affected science over the ages in relation to such major intellectual themes as romanticism, relativity, quantum theory, religion, and movements for social progress.
Unlocking Divine Action
Title | Unlocking Divine Action PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Dodds |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2012-09-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0813219892 |
Provides a sustained account of how the thought of Aquinas may be used in conjunction with contemporary science to deepen our understanding of divine action and address such issues as creation, providence, prayer, and miracles.
Process Cosmology
Title | Process Cosmology PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew M. Davis |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2021-12-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3030813967 |
This book newly articulates the international and interdisciplinary reach of Whitehead’s organic process cosmology for a variety of topics across science and philosophy, and in dialogue with a variety historical and contemporary voices. Integrating Whitehead’s thought with the insights of Bergson, James, Pierce, Merleau-Ponty, Descola, Fuchs, Hofmann, Grof and many others, contributors from around the world reveal the relevance of process philosophy to physics, cosmology, astrobiology, ecology, metaphysics, aesthetics, psychedelics, and religion. A global collection, this book expresses multivocal possibilities for the development of process cosmology after Whitehead.
Recent Advances in the Creation of a Process-Based Worldview
Title | Recent Advances in the Creation of a Process-Based Worldview PDF eBook |
Author | Łukasz Lamża |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2017-01-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1443864900 |
Process thought is an important component of contemporary philosophy. Alfred North Whitehead’s organic philosophy has a special place in the landscape of process thinking, being detailed, precise and well-thought, and at the same time extremely visionary and far-reaching. The global community of process thinkers includes physicists, biologists, doctors, political scientists, educators, activists, philosophers, theologians and other people devoted to rethinking their disciplines in the light of process philosophy. This volume presents the cutting edge in the creation of a process worldview. Leading scholars from all over the world gathered to discuss how process thinking can inspire us to rethink our lives. Precise philosophical language and a unifying vision are applied to core issues, such as politics, society, education and religion. The book represents a bold move from academic philosophy into the realm of actual human lives.
Mind in Nature
Title | Mind in Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Maria-Teresa Teixeira |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2021-01-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1527565157 |
This collection of essays written by leading Whitehead scholars bridges two important philosophical movements in Western philosophy separated by many centuries: Neo-Platonism and Process Philosophy. It focuses on a variety of topics, which can be found in both theories, including creativity, temporality, holism, potentiality, causality, evolution, organism, and multiplicities. They all concur with an integral, natural worldview, showing that wholeness, complexity, and indivisibility are prevalent in Nature. All in all, it brings together Neo-Platonism and Process Philosophy through the impact the former had on the latter. This volume shows that process philosophy can contribute to an integral worldview as it draws on ancient philosophy, setting new paradigms for novel approaches to nature, science and metaphysics.
Matter and Consciousness
Title | Matter and Consciousness PDF eBook |
Author | Paul M. Churchland |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780262530743 |
In "Matter and Consciousness," Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates the striking developments that have taken place in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence and notes their expanding relevance to philosophical issues. Churchland organizes and clarifies the new theoretical and experimental results of the natural sciences for a wider philosophical audience, observing that this research bears directly on questions concerning the basic elements of cognitive activity and their implementation in real physical systems. (How is it, he asks, that living creatures perform some cognitive tasks so swiftly and easily, where computers do them only badly or not at all?) Most significant for philosophy, Churchland asserts, is the support these results tend to give to the reductive and the eliminative versions of materialism. "A Bradford Book"