The Metaphysics of Experience: A Companion to Whitehead's Process and Reality (American Philosophy) - Softcover

Kraus, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823217965 ISBN 13: 9780823217960

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The Metaphysics of Experience styles itself as "a Sherpa guide to Process and Reality, whose function is to assist the serious reader in grasping the meaning of the text and to prevent falls into misinterpretation." Although originally published in 1925, Process and Reality has perhaps even more relevance to the contemporary scene in physics, biology, psychology, and the social sciences than it had in the mid-twenties. Hence its internal difficulty, its quasi-inaccessibility, is all the more tragic, since, unlike most metaphysical endeavors, it is capable of interpreting and unifying theories in the above sciences in terms of an organic world view, instead of selecting one theory as the paradigm and reducing all others to it. Because Alfred North Whitehead is so crucial to modern philosophy, The Metaphysics of Experience plays an important role in making Process and Reality accessible to a wider readership.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth M. Kraus is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Fordham University.

Review:

“Extremely well done... will universally be referred to, not by its title, but as ‘Kraus’s Companion’. . . .” (―Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society)

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0823217965
• ISBN 13: 9780823217960
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190