Applied process thought ii : following a trail ablaze /

Concentrating mainly on the process philosophy developed by Alfred North Whitehead, this series of essays brings together some of the newest developments in the application of process thinking to the physical and social sciences. These essays, by established scholars in the field, demonstrate how a...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Dibben, Mark; Newton, Rebecca
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2009]
©2009
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Process thought; 21
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110328103
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Summary: Concentrating mainly on the process philosophy developed by Alfred North Whitehead, this series of essays brings together some of the newest developments in the application of process thinking to the physical and social sciences. These essays, by established scholars in the field, demonstrate how a wider and deeper understanding of the world can be obtained using process philosophical concepts, how the distortions and blockages inevitably inherent in substantivist talk can be set aside, and how new and fertile lines of research in the sciences can be opened as a result.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (402 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9783110328103
Index Number: B1674
CLC: B561.52
Contents: Frontmatter --
Memories of Forgotten Times /
Contents --
Contributors --
Foreword /
Passing /
Preface /
Fundamental Cosmological Dualities /
Introduction: Following a Trail Ablaze /
I. The Urizen of Whiteheadian Process Thought /
II. Mementos of a Timequake: Whitehead s Radical Empiricism /
III. Systems Thinking and Emergence /
IV. A Study in the Process Philosophy of Science: Biosystems and their Properties /
V. Containment and Reciprocity in Biological Systems: A Putative Psychophysical Organising Principle /
VI. The Philosophy of an Infinite, Open and Integrated Universe /
VII. The Religious Importance of Metaphysics /
VIII. The Earth, Life and Process Thinking: China and the West /
IX. Empire, Relational Power, and a Multi-Polar World /
X. Religion and Politics in Contemporary Democracy: A Whiteheadian Perspective /
XI. Propositions in Corporations: Unconscious and Non-Conscious Experience /
XII. The Curious Case of Routines: Between Deliberation and Instinct /
XIII. Sociology, Societies and Sociality /
XIV. Towards A Process Oriented Sociological Imagination: Linking Conceptions of Nature with Social Change and Practice /
XV. Education in a Decadent Age: The Place of Process Philosophy in the Curriculum /
XVI. How Can A Process Ontology Aid Philosophical Theology? /
XVII. The Role of Philosophy in the University /
Appendix: What is Applied Process Thought? The Editorial Introduction to Volume 1 /