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Speculative Empiricism : Revisiting Whitehead / Tomas Joseph Weber, Isabelle Stengers, Didier Debaise.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Speculative Realism : SPREPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474423045
  • 9781474423069
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 192
LOC classification:
  • B1674.W354 D43213 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Translator’s Note -- Preface Isabelle Stengers -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Speculative Philosophy: Method and Function -- 2 What is Speculative Philosophy? -- 3 Creativity as Ultimate Principle -- 4 Actualising Creativity -- Part II The Speculative Approach to Existence: Process and Individuation -- 5 What is a Process of Individuation? -- 6 What is the Subject? -- 7 Realisation of Self and Power -- 8 Pure Potentiality and Actuality -- 9 Temporal Dimensions of Actual Entities -- Part III Experiences and Societies: Thinking Nature -- 10 A Universe of Societies -- 11 The Mode of Existence of Societies -- 12 Nature and Societies -- 13 Conclusion: What is Speculative Empiricism? -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: A radically new philosophy of experience and speculation, based on a reading of Whitehead’s Process and RealityCan experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconciled with a method of systematic cosmological speculation? Didier Debaise’s reading of Whitehead shows clearly what a philosophy that makes this possible looks like, how it works and what is at stake. He focuses in on Whitehead’s attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience: everything enjoyed and perceived, willed or thought.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Translator’s Note -- Preface Isabelle Stengers -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Speculative Philosophy: Method and Function -- 2 What is Speculative Philosophy? -- 3 Creativity as Ultimate Principle -- 4 Actualising Creativity -- Part II The Speculative Approach to Existence: Process and Individuation -- 5 What is a Process of Individuation? -- 6 What is the Subject? -- 7 Realisation of Self and Power -- 8 Pure Potentiality and Actuality -- 9 Temporal Dimensions of Actual Entities -- Part III Experiences and Societies: Thinking Nature -- 10 A Universe of Societies -- 11 The Mode of Existence of Societies -- 12 Nature and Societies -- 13 Conclusion: What is Speculative Empiricism? -- Works Cited -- Index

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A radically new philosophy of experience and speculation, based on a reading of Whitehead’s Process and RealityCan experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconciled with a method of systematic cosmological speculation? Didier Debaise’s reading of Whitehead shows clearly what a philosophy that makes this possible looks like, how it works and what is at stake. He focuses in on Whitehead’s attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience: everything enjoyed and perceived, willed or thought.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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