Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance

by David Ray Griffin

Overview

Examines the postmodern implications of Whitehead's metaphysical system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791470497
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	03/08/2007
Series:	SUNY Series in Philosophy
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	315
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Ray Griffin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion at the Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University in California. His many books include Religion and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction     vii
Abbreviations     xi
Whitehead's Philosophy as Postmodern
Whitehead's Philosophy as Postmodern Philosophy     3
Whitehead's Philosophy and the Enlightenment     15
Whitehead on Consciousness, Ecology, Truth, Time, and Ethics
Consciousness as a Subjective Form: Interactionism without Dualism     51
Whitehead's Deeply Ecological Worldview: Egalitarianism without Irrelevance     70
Truth as Correspondence, Knowledge as Dialogical: Pluralism without Relativism     86
Time in Physics and the Time of Our Lives: Overcoming Misplaced Concreteness     106
Whitehead and the Crisis in Moral Theory: Theistic Ethics without Heteronomy     139
The Coherence of Whiteheadian Theism
Relativity Physics and Whiteheadian Theism: Overcoming the Apparent Conflicts     166
Whiteheadian Theism: A Response to Robert Neville's Critique     186
Whitehead's Subjectivist Principle: From Descartes to Panexperientialism     215
Notes     242
Bibliography     276
Index     297

Editorial Reviews

"Those who are unfamiliar with Griffin's recent books will be grateful for this clear, readable, and thorough introduction to Whitehead's philosophy as constructive (rather than deconstructive) and postmodern. However, those who are well versed in Griffin's previous books will also benefit from his expanded use of the theory of hard-core common sense, his defense of theological ethics, and his detailed examination of Whitehead's reformed subjectivist principle. In short, this is an excellent book that could be read with profit by philosophers and theologians generally." — Daniel A. Dombrowski, author of Rawls and Religion: The Case for Political Liberalism

"No one working in the area of process thought will want to miss this major new book by David Ray Griffin." — Donald W. Sherburne, coeditor of Whitehead's Philosophy: Points of Connection

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