Process Philosophy: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9781474244343 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 480 str.

Keith Robinson

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PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION N. Rescher – On Situating Process Philosophy PART 1 - ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL SOURCES Introduction 1. Heraclitus Heraclitus - Selection of Fragments and Testimonia J.Barnes – The Natural Philosophy of Heraclitus D. Graham – Heraclitus as a Process Philosopher (alternatives: James Wayne Dye – Heraclitus and the Future of Process Philosophy G.S Kirk – Natural Change in Heraclitus) Critics: Parmenides Parmenides - Poem on Being F.M. Cornford – The Elimination of Time by Parmenides Critics: Zeno of Elea Zeno - Selection of Paradoxes B. Russell – Zeno’s Paradoxes H. Bergson – Zeno’s Paradoxes 2. Plato Plato- Selections from Timaeus, Parmenides, Cratylus, Theatetus, Sophist Robert Bolton – Plato’s Distinction Between Being and Becoming T. Irwin – Plato’s Heracleiteanism (Alternative H. Cherniss) 3. Aristotle Aristotle - Selections from the Categories, Metaphysics and Physics G.E.L Owen – Aristotle on Time M.L. Gill - Aristotle on Substance PART 2 - MODERN SOURCES CONTINENTAL Introduction 1. Schelling Schelling - Selections from First Outline of a System for the Philosophy of Nature and On the History of Modern Philosophy Arran Gare – From Kant to Schelling to Process Metaphysics Critics: Hegel – ‘Preface’, Phenomenology of Spirit 2. Hegel Hegel - Selections from Phenomenology of Spirit; Encyclopedia; Philosophy of Nature. John Burbridge – Concept and Time in Hegel (Alternative George Lucas ) Catherine Malabou – The Future of Hegel – Plasticity, Temporality, Dialectic Critics: Deleuze – Selection from Nietzsche and Philosophy 3. Nietzsche Nietzsche - Selections from Twilight of the Idols, Will to Power. John Richardson – Nietzsche on Time and Becoming Robin Small – Being, Becoming and Time in Nietzsche. Critics: Malcolm Bull – Selections from Anti-Nietzsche 4. Bergson Bergson – Selection from Creative Evolution, Creative Mind. Introduction to Metaphysics Milic Capek – Process and Personality in Bergson’s Thought John Mullarkey – Bergson and the Language of Process Critics: Bachelard – Dialectic of Duration, selections Horkhemer – On Bergson’s Metaphysics of Time Russell - The Philosophy of Bergson A. Grunbaum – The Meaning of Time (The Status of Temporal Becoming) (Choose 2 from above) 5. Deleuze Deleuze – Selections from Logic of Sense, Difference and Repetition, The Method of Dramatization. Keith Robinson – Deleuze and Process Philosophy James Williams – Identity and Time in Gilles Deleuze’s Process Philosophy Critics: Badiou – Selections from The Clamour of Being, Being and Event. PART 3 - MODERN SOURCES ANGLO-AMERICAN Introduction 1. C.S Peirce Peirce - Selections from The Writings of Charles Peirce, The Essential Peirce Carl Hausman – Charles Peirce’s Evolutionary Realism as a Process Philosophy Critics: McTaggart – The Unreality of Time. 2. James James - Selections from Principles of Psychology; Essays in Radical Empiricism; Some Problems in Philosophy Richard Field – James and the Epochal Theory of Time Bertrand Helm - William James on the Nature of Time (Alternate: Stephen Daniel – Fringes and Transitive States in William James’ Concept of the Stream of Thought) Critics: J.P. Moreland – An Enduring Self: The Achilles Heel of Process Philosophy 3. Alexander Alexander - Selections from Space, Time and Deity Emily Thomas – Space, Time and Samuel Alexander Dorothy Emmet – Whitehead and Alexander Critics: Sprigge – Selections from The Vindication of Absolute Idealism, The Unreality of Time. 4. Whitehead Whitehead – Modes of Thought; Process and Reality; Adventures in Ideas; Essays in Science and Philosophy J. Nobo – Whitehead’s Principle of Process Critics: Graham Harman – Whitehead as Anti-Process Thinker. D. Williams – The Myth of Passage (Alternate: James Feibleman – Why Whitehead is not a ‘Process’ Philosopher) 5. Sellars Sellars - Selections from Foundations for a Metaphysics of Pure Process, Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man. J.Seibt – Processes in the Manifest and Scientific Image Critics: JJC Smart - Sellars on Process (Monist) P. Strawson – selections from Individuals PART 4 - PROCESS AND SCIENCE Introduction Whitehead – Selections from Science and the Modern World Milic Capek – The Second Scientific Revolution 1. Process and Physics David Bohm – Time, Space and the Implicate Order, Selections from Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Henry Stapp – Whiteheadian Process and Quantum Theory (Alternate Shimon Malin – Whitehead and Quantum Physics) Critic: Julian Barbour – The Nature of Time 2. Process and Biology John Dupre - The Constituents of Life/Selection from Processes of Life Brain Goodwin – Is Morphogenesis an Intrinsically Robust Process? (Alternate: Richard Lewontin/S.Kauffman) Critic: Daniel Dennett – Evolution as an Algorithmic Process 3. Process and Chemistry Ilya Prigogine – Selections from Order out of Chaos R. Stein - Towards a Process Philosophy of Chemistry (Alternate: P. Needham: Continuants and Processes in Chemistry) Critic: Robin Le Poidevin - A Combinatorial Argument for the Ontological Reduction of Chemistry 4. Process and Neuroscience Maria Pachalsky - Towards a Process Neuropsychology: Microgenetic Theory and Brain Science Jason W Brown - Foundations of Cognitive Metaphysics Gerald Edelman – Neural Darwinism Critic: Patricia Churchland – Computation and the Brain 5. Process and Cognitive Science Mark Bickhard – Mind as Process Mark Bickhard and Richard Campbell – Physicalism, Energence and Downward Causation Critics: Jaegwon Kim – Emergence: Core Ideas and Issues (alternative: Zenon Pykyshyn – What is Cognitive Science?). PART 5 – PROCESS AND HISTORY Introduction 1. Marx – Selections from The German Ideology, Grundrisse, A Critique of Political Economy (preface). Hamrick and Marsh – Marx and Whitehead: Towards a Political Metaphysics Sean Sayers – Marxism and the Dialectical Method (Alternate: Anne Pomeroy) Critics: G.A.Cohen – Selection from Karl Marx’s Theory of History Karl Popper – from The Open Society and its Enemies 2. Collingwood – Selections from the Idea of History, Libellus de Generatione (one copy at the Bodleian library in Oxford) Spengler and the Theory of Historical Cycles, Speculum Mentis, Autobiography Louis Mink - Collingwood’s Historicism: A Dialectic of Process W. Jan Van Der Dussen – Collingwood’s Idea of Progress (Alternate: Stein Hegleby) Critics: A.J. Ayer, from Philosophy in the 20th century 3. A. Toynbee – Selections from A Study of History (abridged version), A Study of History: What the book is for, how the book took shape. C. Kerslake – Becoming against History: Deleuze, Toynbee and Vitalist historiography N. Rescher – Trapped Within History? A Process Philosophical Refutation of Historical Relativism. Critics: Pieter Geyl – Toynbee’s System of Civilizations Pitirim Sorokin – Arnold J Toynbee’s Philosophy of History 4. Foucault – Nietzsche, Genealogy, History, Selections from Archaeology of Knowledge, Discipline and Punish, History of Sexuality. P. Veyne - Foucault Revolutionizes History M.Poster – Foucault, the Present and History Critics: Habermas – The Critique of Reason and the Human Sciences – Michel Foucault 5. Manuel DeLanda - Assemblage Theory and Human History, Selections from A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History Critic: G. Harman – DeLanda’s Ontology: Assemblage and Realism PART 6 – PROCESS AND AESTHETICS Introduction 1. Nietzsche – Selections from Birth of Tragedy, Gay Science, Will to Power Christophe Cox – Nietzsche, Dionysus and the Ontology of Music Critics: Heidegger, Selections from Nietzsche volumes (Will to Power as Art) and Contributions 2. J. Dewey – Selections from Art as Experience R. Shusterman – Dewey’s Art as Experience Critics: B. Croce - On the Aesthetics of Dewey 3. S. Langer – Selections from Problems of Art. Feeling and Form Rolf Lachman - From Metaphysics to Art and back: The Relevance of Suzanne K. Langer’s Philosophy for Process Metaphysics F. Kruse – Vital Rhythm and Temporal Form in Langer and Dewey (V. Colapietro – Suzanne Langer on Artistic creativity and creations (Spinks and Deeley, Semiotics, Peter Lang, 1997). Critic: R. Auxier – Suzanne Langer on Symbols and Analogy: A Case of Misplaced Concreteness? 4. C. Hartshorne - The Aesthetic Matrix of Value.” Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method. London: SCM Press Ltd., 1970; LaSalle: Open Court, 1970, pp. 303-322 “Duality in Aesthetics.” The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1934, pp. 159-190. “Expression and Association.” In Artistic Expression, ed., John Hospers, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971, pp. 204-217. The Aesthetics of Birdsong (3 of the above). George R. Lucas, Jr.: Hartshorne and the Development of Process Philosophies D. Dombrowski – The Aesthetics of Charles Hartshorne (from ‘The Divine Beauty’). Critics: John Hospers – Hartshorne’s Aesthetics (Library of Living Philosophers Vol XX Open Court, 1991). 5. G. Deleuze & F. Guattari - Selections from Kafka, A Thousand Plateaus, What is Philosophy? R. Bogue – “Art and Territory” or “Minority, Territory, Music” or “ Deleuze’s Aesthetics of Force” Critics: J. Ranciere – “Is There a Deleuzian Aesthetics?’ “Deleuze, Bartleby and the Formula” from the Flesh of Words (Stanford, 2004).