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'Whitehead's speculative cosmology and willingness to reform language in its service set him against the philosophical trends of his time. Pierfrancesco Basile's discerning study eschews adulation, revealing a carefully revolutionary Whitehead grappling with matter, mind and metaphysics, a tempered rationalist indebted to Leibniz, whose philosophy "escapes any easy judgment."'Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin
How Whitehead's metaphysics developed out of his reading of the history of philosophy
At the beginning of his magnum opus, Process and Reality (1929), Whitehead lists a series of beliefs which he thinks are widely held by contemporary philosophers. They are all condemned as dangerously mistaken.
What are these myths? Why are they rejected? In the works of which modern thinkers did they arise? What precisely went wrong? At what stage in the development of Western thought did this happen? By tackling these questions, Pierfrancesco Basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts of Whitehead's process metaphysics - especially the crucial notion that being and power are one and the same - as well as to appreciate the complex way this is rooted in the modern philosophical tradition.
Pierfrancesco Basile is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bern and at the KSA Luzern, Switzerland.
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Pierfrancesco Basile is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Part I. In Search of a New Metaphysics 1. Introduction: Metaphysics, Science, Common Sense 2. Speculative Metaphysics: Defining the Ideal
Part II. From Permanence to Process 3. Deconstructing Tradition: Substance Revisited 4. The Flowing Self: From Monads to Actual Occasions 5. Overcoming the Cartesian Legacy: The Process Concept of Substance
Part III. From Process to Permanence 6. Changing Shapes of Reality: Understanding Nature under a Social Analogy 7. Theological Afterthoughts: A Neo-Platonic God for a Darwinian Universe?
8. Conclusion: The Ethics of Creativity - A Deweyan Critique
Appendix: The Making of a Metaphysician - a Biographical Note Bibliography Index
