Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time: Bohm, Prigogine, and Process Philosophy

Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time: Bohm, Prigogine, and Process Philosophy

by David Ray Griffin
ISBN-10:
088706115X
ISBN-13:
9780887061158
Pub. Date:
11/15/1985
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
ISBN-10:
088706115X
ISBN-13:
9780887061158
Pub. Date:
11/15/1985
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time: Bohm, Prigogine, and Process Philosophy

Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time: Bohm, Prigogine, and Process Philosophy

by David Ray Griffin

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Overview

Challenges the conventional view of the nature of time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780887061158
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 11/15/1985
Pages: 338
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David Ray Griffin is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the School of Theology at Claremont and Claremont Graduate School and Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: Time and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness

David Ray Griffin

I Historical Backgrounds

2. Evolutionary Epistemology, Durational Metaphysics, and Theoretical Physics: Capek and the Bergsonian Tradition

Andrew G. Bjelland

3. Dynamic, Asymmetrical, Internal Relations: Some Questions for Andrew Bjelland

Pete A. Y. Gunter

4. Response to Pete Gunter

Andrew G. Bjelland

5. Time in the Earlier and Later Whitehead

Patrick Hurley 6. Contemporaneity, Knowledge, and God: A Comment on Hurley's Paper

Frederick Ferré

7. Time, Events, and Substance: Comments on Hurley and Whitehead

Peter Miller

8. Whitehead's Later View on Space-Time: A Response to Patrick Hurley

John B. Cobb, Jr.

II Bohm, Prigogine, and Process Philosophy

9. Bohm and Whitehead on Wholeness, Freedom, Causality, and Time

David Ray Griffin

10. Bohm and Time

John B. Cobb, Jr.

11. Bohm and Process Philosophy: A Response to Griffin and Cobb

Ian G. Barbour

12. Reply to Comments of John Cobb and David Griffin

David Bohm

13. Time, the Implicate Order and Pre-Space

DavidBohm

14. A Response to David Bohm's "Time, the Implicate Order and Pre-Space"

Robert John Russell

15. Time and Higher-Order Wholeness: A Response to David Bohm

Steven M. Rosen

16. An Example of Bohm's"Implicate Order"

Crockett L. Grabbe

17. Irreversibility and Space-Time Structure

Ilya Prigogine

18. Far-from-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Process Thought

Joseph E. Earley

19. Some Questions for Ilya Prigogine

Pete A. Y. Gunter

20. Response to Pete Gunter

Ilya Prigogine

21. Comments on Ilya Prigogine's Program

David Bohm

22. Einstein Time and Process Time

Henry P. Stapp

23. Process Time and Static Time: A Response to Henry Stapp

Tim Eastman

24. Physics and Metaphysics: Henry Stapp on Time

William B. Jones

25. Comments on Henry Stapp's "Einstein Time and Process Time"

David Bohm

26. On "Becoming" as a Fifth Dimension

Peter Miller

27. A Short Comment on Henry Stapp's Contribution

Ilya Prigogine

III

Philosophical Overviews

28. The Unreality and Indeterminacy of the Future in the Light of Contemporary Physics

Milic Capek

29. On the Ultimate Significance of Time for Truth, Goodness, and the Sacred

Frederick Ferré

Notes on Contributors

Name Index
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