A Case of Misplaced Concreteness?
The author argues that, while logical rigor requires Whiteheadians to emphasize the ontological priority of the notion of actual entity as a selfconstituting subject of experience for the proper understanding of physical reality, Whitehead’s understanding of the key category of society in his metaph...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Illinois Press
2015
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Process studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 259-269 |
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| Summary: | The author argues that, while logical rigor requires Whiteheadians to emphasize the ontological priority of the notion of actual entity as a selfconstituting subject of experience for the proper understanding of physical reality, Whitehead’s understanding of the key category of society in his metaphysics, especially the way that societies and their constituent actual entities reciprocally "constrain" one another’s existence and activity (PR 90-91) and the way that societies are hierarchically ordered to one another within the evolutionary process (PR 99-103) will presumably have more empirical resonance with natural scientists in their own efforts to understand the emergence of life from non-life, the progressive growth of self-awareness among higher-order animal species, etc. So, in dialogue with natural scientists, why not start with what is psychologically more interesting to the listener? |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/44798017 |