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 ----- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html