After Whitehead: Rescher on Process Metaphysics

ISBN-13: 9783110327939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 339 str.

Michel Weber

Opis

When Reschers Process Metaphysics (1996) was published, it was widely acclaimed as a major step towards the academic recognition of a mode of thought that has otherwise been confined within sharp scholarly boundaries. Of course it is not an easy book: despite its stylistic clarity, it remains the complex outcome of a lifes work in most areas of philosophy. The goal of the present volume is to systematically unfold the vices and virtues of Process Metaphysics, and thereby to specify the contemporary state of affairs in process thought. To do so, the editor has gathered one focused contribution per chapter, each paper addressing specifically and explicitly its assigned chapter and seeking to promote a dialogue with Rescher. In addition, the volume features Reschers replies to the papers.

O autorze

Michel Weber is one of the most distinguished European philosophers in the area of process philosophy in the tradition of Alfred North Whitehead. He university professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, editor of the series Chromatiques whiteheadiennes, and the series Process Thought (both published by ontos verlag) and the organizer of the annual Whitehead conferences in Paris (France) and Louvain (Belgium).