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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Alfred North Whitehead"”.
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Becoming Otherwise: Politics, Metaphysics and Power in Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead
… drawn from the work of Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead. Read through and out of these two philosophers of becoming is a post-secular political ontology that is embedded within a metaphysics of creativity, a metaphysic that is itself already infected by the political. At the …
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The practice of 'creative block': making space for process
… lenses of process philosophy, including that of Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, this interplay of concepts in relation to lived experience breaks down binaries, becoming a solution of activated motility. My plastic practice of printmaking runs through the work, …
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The Problem of Coming to Terms with the Past: A Post-Holocaust Theology of Remembrance
… while introducing the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead as a helpful and appropriate means for continuing metaphysical reflection and perceiving the influence of the past upon the present and future in post-Holocaust discourse. This dissertation suggests, alongside Adorno and …
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The architecture of the extended mind: towards a critical urban ecology
… in the development of systems thinking – or what Alfred North Whitehead described as “the philosophy of organism” – with particular reference to a socio-political re-conception of architecture, urbanism and the wider environment today. I describe a network of relationships which traces the …
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The Canto of Ezra Pound as a Process Model
… Einstein and Michael Farraday in physics as with Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell in mathematics. The form of the vortex is familiar today in three-dimensional models of the double helix in human cells and DNA in biology, in models of the process of atomic fission, in Noam Chomsky's use …
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Abductive empiricism: the significance of substance in Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary
… around metaphysical connections among entities. Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Peirce see interconnectedness in a continuous process of becoming, Karen Barad explores the constant creation of entities through intra-action, and Erwin Schrӧdinger quantifies the connection between the quantum …
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Some Alternatives to Model Selection and New Approaches to Computing for the Economics. 12/6/2014
… through process philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead in the United Kingdom and Charles Sanders Peirce in the United States. I close with a Moore Method inspired course based on this work which provides a practical start for revising the economics curriculum to reclaim the …
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Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato
… of Plato in the philosophical expressions of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). It was Whitehead who issued the well-known remark that “the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists in a series of footnotes to Plato" -- the purpose of this …
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Three analytic philosophy of mind debates and a Deleuzian intervention: Folk Psychology, Personal Identity and Free Will
… and give the reasons for my choice. Next, Alfred North Whitehead together with ‘process philosophy’ is foregrounded. The pragmatic, problem based approach adopted together with Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism is set out.<br/><br/>Chapter Three is devoted to Moore’s lacunae, including …
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Ontological parity and reciprocal constitution in Buchler's system
… Aristotle, John Dewey, John Herman Randall, and Alfred North Whitehead. The process of philosophic assessment I endorse identifies similarities and differences in outlook as well as ascertains adequacies of formulation, portrayal, and generalization. In Buchler’s outlook, whatever is, in whatever …
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The Doctrine of Christian Perfection for Today: Reading Wesley's Theology Through the Lens of Process Thought
<p>My thesis is: A process-theological reading of Wesley's doctrine of perfection, by constructing an adequate concept of God in process, gives renewed importance and vitality to Wesley's doctrine of perfection, a doctrine that has been confused and virtually ignored even by Methodists themselves, …