American Philosophy Today and Tomorrow. Horace M. Kallen , Sidney HookPhilosophical Essays for Alfred North Whitehead.

Ethics ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-557
Author(s):  
Marjorie Glicksman
Keyword(s):  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Philosophy Today ◽  
American Philosophy

American Philosophy Today and Tomorrow.

1936 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
H. A. L. ◽  
Horace M. Kallen ◽  
Sidney Hook
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Today ◽  
American Philosophy

American Philosophy Today and Tomorrow

1936 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-294
Author(s):  
Henry A. Lucks ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Today ◽  
American Philosophy

American Philosophy Today and Tomorrow.

1937 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 664
Author(s):  
Donald A. Piatt ◽  
H. M. Kallen ◽  
Sidney Hook
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Today ◽  
American Philosophy

American Philosophy Today and Tomorrow

1936 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-270
Author(s):  
Robert Marshak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Today ◽  
American Philosophy

The Event Universe

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leemon B. McHenry
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Physical Theory ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
Linguistic Methods

What kinds of things are events? Battles, explosions, accidents, crashes, rock concerts would be typical examples of events and these would be reinforced in the way we speak about the world. Events or actions function linguistically as verbs and adverbs. Philosophers following Aristotle have claimed that events are dependent on substances such as physical objects and persons. But with the advances of modern physics, some philosophers and physicists have argued that events are the basic entities of reality and what we perceive as physical bodies are just very long events spread out in space-time. In other words, everything turns out to be events. This view, no doubt, radically revises our ordinary common sense view of reality, but as our event theorists argue common sense is out of touch with advancing science. In The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a more adequate basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead’s theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as another key proponent of this theory, W. V. Quine. In this manner, McHenry defends the naturalized and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century.

Living Paradox in Riverine Bangladesh: Whiteheadian Perspectives on Ganga Devi and Khwaja Khijir

1969 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naveeda Khan
Keyword(s):  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Physical Entity ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many

We begin with the words of rural and riverine women from Bangladesh recalling the events of their children's deaths by drowning. These events are cast as the work of supernatural beings, specifically Ganga Devi and Khwaja Khijir, who compel the mothers into forgetfulness and entice the children to the water. Is this a disavowal of loss and responsibility? This article considers that the women, specifically those from northern Bangladesh, assert not only their understanding of the losses that they have suffered but also their changing relationship to the river and its changing nature through their evocations of mythological figures. Alongside the many experiences of the river, the article takes note of its experience as paradoxical, with paradoxicality serving as the occasion for the coming together of the mythological, the material, and the social. The article draws upon Alfred North Whitehead to interrelate the strata of myths and their permutations, with the women's experiences of the river, and the river as a physical entity, allowing us to explore how the women's expressions portend the changing climate.

Alfred North Whitehead

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Kal
Keyword(s):  
Alfred North Whitehead
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