After Whitehead: Rescher on Process Metaphysics: Researcher on Process Metaphysics - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3937202498 ISBN 13: 9783937202495

Publisher: ontos verlag, 2004

Synopsis

"I judge [After Whitehead] this book to be a notable achievement both in terms of its overall organization and in the level of sustained reflection on various key issues within an overall process-oriented approach to reality." -Joseph A. Bracken, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Review

This book advances the development of an important and lively philosophical tradition. -- John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy and Director of The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College, USA.

From the Publisher

When Rescher's Process Metaphysics (1996) was published, it was widely acclaimed as a major step towards the academic recognition of a "mode of thought" that has otherwise been confined within sharp scholarly boundaries. Of course it is not an easy book: despite its stylistic clarity, it remains the complex outcome of a life's work in most areas of philosophy.

The goal of the present volume is to systematically unfold the vices and virtues of Process Metaphysics, and thereby to specify the contemporary state of affairs in process thought. To do so, the editor has gathered one focused contribution per chapter, each paper addressing specifically and explicitly its assigned chapter and seeking to promote a dialogue with Rescher. In addition, the volume features Rescher's replies to the papers.

Edition details

• Publisher: ontos verlag
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3937202498
• ISBN 13: 9783937202495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Weber Michel