[lit-ideas] Re: Whiteheadiana

  • From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:37:49 -0500 (EST)

In a message dated 1/27/2014 12:40:20 P.M.  Eastern Standard Time, 
omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Honestly, I think that  very few contemporary philosophers believe that 
their arguments possess the  certainty of 'demonstration' in the Aristotelian 
sense. (Other than perhaps in  the field of formal logic, to the extent that 
logic might still be considered a  branch of philosophy) It might be 
flogging a dead horse, here.   :)  

For the record, the table of contents of the book on Whitehead  at 
 
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674048034&content=toc
 
 
below.

Cheers,
 
Speranza
 
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Foreword: What Is Given in Experience? by Bruno Latour
Abbreviations and  References
Introduction: Whitehead Today?

Part One: From the Philosophy of Nature to Metaphysics

1 The Mathematician and the Sunset
2 Events and Passage
3 The  Foothold of the Mind
4 There It Is Again
5 Attention to Objects
6 The  Ingression of Scientific Objects
7 Interlude: A Pragmatics of Concepts
8  Science and the Modern World: A Strange Book
9 A New Epoch?
10 From the  Concept of Nature to the Order of Nature
11 Scientific Objects and the Test  of the Organism
12 The Event from Its Own Standpoint?
13 Entry into  Metaphysics
14 The Great Refusal
 
Part Two: Cosmology

15 Hic Circuli, Hic Saltus
16 Thinking under the Constraint of  Creativity
17 The Risks of Speculative Interpretation
18 Feeling One’s  World
19 Justifying Life?
20 The Adventure of the Senses
21 Actuality  between Physics and the Divine
22 And They Became Souls
23 Modes of  Existence, Modes of Thought
24 God and the World
25 An Adventure of  Ideas
 
Conclusion: Word of a Dragon, Word of Trance

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