Speculative Empiricism
Revisiting Whitehead
Seiten
2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2305-2 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2305-2 (ISBN)
Didier Debaise 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, giving us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.
Can 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 Process and Reality 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.
In this way, Debaise illustrates how Whitehead’s philosophy gives us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.
Can 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 Process and Reality 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.
In this way, Debaise illustrates how Whitehead’s philosophy gives us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.
Didier Debaise is Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy at the Free University of Brussels.
Translator’s Preface Preface by Isabelle StengersIntroduction
Part I: Speculative Philosophy: Method And Function What is Speculative Philosophy? Creativity as Ultimate Principle Actualising Creativity
Part II: The Speculative Approach To Existence: Process and Individuation What is a Process of Individuation? What is the Subject? Realisation of Self and Power Pure Potentiality and Actuality Temporal Dimensions of Actual Entities
Part III: Experiences And Societies: Thinking Nature A Universe of Societies The Mode of Existence of Societies Nature and Societies
Conclusion: What is Speculative Empiricism? Works Cited
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.09.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Speculative Realism |
| Übersetzer | Tomas Joseph Weber |
| Vorwort | Didier Debaise |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
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| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-2305-1 / 1474423051 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-2305-2 / 9781474423052 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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