Process and Reality

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Process and Reality (1929) from the 1927–28 Gifford Lectures, is Alfred North Whitehead's opus explicating the philosophy of organism, a philosophy of subjectivity as process itself. Also called process philosophy, Whitehead's paradigm laid the ground work for a paradigm of subjectivity, which Whitehead calls a "completed metaphysical language." (p. 18)

We diverge from Descartes by holding that what he has described as primary attributes of physical bodies, are really the forms of internal relationships between actual occasions. Such a change of thought is the shift from materialism to Organic Realism, as a basic idea of physical science.

—Process and Reality, 471

[edit] See also

• Mereology
• Whitehead's point-free geometry

[edit] Publication data

Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929). 1979 corrected edition, edited by David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne, Free Press. ISBN 0-02934570-7

[edit] External links

• • Process and Reality. Part V: Final Interpretation (pdf file, 157 kB) in Forizs Laszlo's homepage