Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead

Only recently has it been cited and understood and appreciated, by a few thinkers and philosophers and scientists and oddballs like myself. Theory is finite, though it might contain a symbol ( ∞ ) to stand for it.Īnd yet this book, though it was well received when it was published, has since been virtually ignored. Other articles where Process and Reality is discussed: Alfred North Whitehead: Career in the United States of Alfred North Whitehead: one of its greatest. It would weigh literally nothing by comparison.Theory is one thing, reality is another. Put reality on one pan, put science, quantum mechanics, relativity special and general, on the other. But even if it works as well as quantum mechanics, standing all experimental tests, it is still only a theory. A so called theory of everything might be proposed. Reality is almost all beyond science, outside its scope even, let alone somehow contained by it.

It would be arrogant to the point of insanity to believe that this is the whole show. 136 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead: Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge. In fact science only deals with what is measurable by human beings. The world itself, reality itself, isn't limited to what science says it is. Science itself, even modern quantum mechanics, might leave room for the subjective, for beauty, art, spirituality, but it never directly addresses any of those things, only indirectly through statistical analysis.This book deals with both sides of the boundary. File Type: PDF Date: 2015 Author: SIMONS, PETER Access: openAccess Citation: Peter Simons, Alfred North Whitehead s Process and Reality, Topoi, 34, 2015. It is also about what is beyond material. Chapter 1 is where he addresses the task he's set for himself - to define Speculative Philosophy and demonstrate its usefulness for the production of knowledge. It is really about the limitations of materialism. English Process and Reality is Alfred North Whitehead's preeminent philosophical work in the Philosophy of Organism, or Process Philosophy. The subject matter of this book by a mathematician, scientist, philosopher, is unusual, coming from a scientific background. Original, profound, mind-blowing, important Process and Reality, Whiteheads magnum opus, is one of the major philosophical works of the modern world, and an extensive body of secondary literature has.

Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead