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Title

Process pragmatism : essays on a quiet philosophical revolution / edited by Guy Debrock.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Debrock, G., 1934-

Description

xiv, 185 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Academic and practicing philosophers from Europe and North America offer a range of views on a branch of philosophy based on the propositions that nothing is unless something happens, that nothing happens unless it involves interaction, and that nothing happens in isolation. The 11 papers are from a May 1999 colloquium in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Series Statement

Value inquiry book series ; v. 137. Studies in pragmatism and values

Uniform Title

• Value inquiry book series v. 137.
• Value inquiry book series. Studies in pragmatism and values.

Subject

• Peirce, Charles S
• Pragmatism > Congresses
• Values > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Papers presented during the International Colloquium on Pragmatic Process Philosophy ... held at the University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in May 1999"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Process Pragmatism / Guy Debrock -- Three elementary propositions -- Pragmatism and Process Pragmatism -- The Quiet Revolution -- Pragmatic Process Philosophy: A Uniquely Powerful Paradigm / Sandra B. Rosenthal -- Charles Peirce's Evolutionary Realism as a Process Philosophy / Carl Hausman -- Peirce's Realism and the Twofold Object of Inquiry -- Five Functions of the Dynamical Object -- The Preferred Way to Understand the Dynamical Object -- The Law of Reason and the Law of Love / Jaime Nubiola -- Charles S. Peirce, a real scientist-philosopher -- The mature Peirce on science and the growth of science -- Cross-disciplinarity: communication and love -- By way of conclusion -- Self-consciousness: A Pragmatic Process Approach / Johan Siebers -- The Reflexivity of Experience -- An Account of Reflexivity -- Two Ways of Doing Philosophy -- Categories of Existence -- Speculative Method -- Reflexivity and Self-consciousness -- The Generalization of the Mathematical Function: A Speculative Analysis / James Bradley -- Hors d'oeuvre, speculative and analytical -- The First Step: Mapping as Activity -- The Second Step: Mapping Activity as a Theory of Difference or Singularity -- The Third Step: Mapping Activity as Synthesis -- Iterative Series -- Infinity as Transfinity -- Immanence and Divine Persuasion: Whitehead's Provocative View on the Laws of Nature / Palmyre Oomen -- A short and global exposition of Whitehead's philosophy -- Whitehead's view of the nature of the Laws of Nature and their requirements -- The compatibility question -- Restless Thought: A Pragmatist View on Belief and Scientific Realism / Herman C.D. De Regt -- On Van Fraassen's New Theory of Rationality -- Foley's Compromise between Pascal and Clifford -- The Rationality of Our Beliefs and Opinions -- Belief as Habit -- Peirce's "Diagrammatic Reasoning": A Solution of the Learning Paradox / Michael H.G. Hoffmann -- The Paradox of Learning -- Plato's, Chomsky's, and Fodor's Solution: Apriorism -- Aristotle's Solution: Acquiring Knowledge by Induction -- Two Horns of One Dilemma -- Peirce's Solution of the Learning Paradox through Diagrammatic Reasoning -- An Example of Diagrammatic Reasoning -- The Life of a Process / Rowland Stout -- People and their Lives -- Processes and their Events -- The mereology and identity of processes and events -- Ethics and Pragmatic Process Philosophy / Guy Debrock -- A Plea for a Revisionist Ethics -- Ethical Revisionism is possible -- Moral Agency without Moral Agents -- Ethics and Process Pragmatism.

ISBN

9042009853 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 52271301
• SCSB-11544933

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library