Process and Analysis
Whitehead, Hartshorne, and the Analytic Tradition
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
272 pages
978-0-7914-8761-7 (ISBN)
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Leading thinkers from both traditions explore common philosophical topics.
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George W. Shields is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Division of Literature, Languages, and Philosophy at Kentucky State University. He is coeditor (with Mark H. Shale) of Science, Technology, and Religious Ideas.
Content
Preface
Abbreviations
PART ONE: OVERVIEWS
1. Introduction: On the Interface of Analytic and Process Philosophy
George W. Shields
2. The Promise of Process Philosophy
Nicholas Rescher
3. Whitehead and Wittgenstein: The Critique of Enlightenment and the Question Concerning Metaphysics
George R. Lucas Jr.
PART TWO: PROCESS PHILOSOPHY AND ISSUES IN ANALYTIC METAPHYSICS
4. Disanalogies Between Space and Time
Richard M. Gale
5. Relational Particulars and Whitehead's Metaphysics
John W. Lango
6. Whitehead and the Analysis of the Propositional Function
James Bradley
7. Quine and Whitehead: Ontology and Methodology
Leemon McHenry 8. Response to Leemon McHenry
Willard Van Orman Quine
9. De Re Modality and the Ontological Argument
George L. Goodwin
10. The Second Epistemic Way
Billy Joe Lucas
11. The Logic of Future Contingents
George W. Shields and Donald W. Viney
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
Abbreviations
PART ONE: OVERVIEWS
1. Introduction: On the Interface of Analytic and Process Philosophy
George W. Shields
2. The Promise of Process Philosophy
Nicholas Rescher
3. Whitehead and Wittgenstein: The Critique of Enlightenment and the Question Concerning Metaphysics
George R. Lucas Jr.
PART TWO: PROCESS PHILOSOPHY AND ISSUES IN ANALYTIC METAPHYSICS
4. Disanalogies Between Space and Time
Richard M. Gale
5. Relational Particulars and Whitehead's Metaphysics
John W. Lango
6. Whitehead and the Analysis of the Propositional Function
James Bradley
7. Quine and Whitehead: Ontology and Methodology
Leemon McHenry 8. Response to Leemon McHenry
Willard Van Orman Quine
9. De Re Modality and the Ontological Argument
George L. Goodwin
10. The Second Epistemic Way
Billy Joe Lucas
11. The Logic of Future Contingents
George W. Shields and Donald W. Viney
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
