Creative Experiencing: A Philosophy of Freedom (S U N Y Series in Philosophy) - Hardcover

Hartshorne, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1438436653 ISBN 13: 9781438436654

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr, 2011

Synopsis

A vigorous and wide-ranging defense of Hartshorne’s “neoclassical metaphysics” of creative freedom.

Charles Hartshorne, one of the premier metaphysicians of the twentieth century, surmised that Creative Experiencing: A Philosophy of Freedom made his contribution to technical philosophy essentially complete. Found among his papers, this book combines five chapters published here for the first time with revisions and expansions of previously published material. Hartshorne articulates and defends his “neoclassical metaphysics” as an enterprise related to but independent of empirical science, addressing a variety of topics, including the problem of other minds (including nonhuman ones), the competencies of science, the nature of God, the meaning of modal terms, the ontological status of universals, and the metaphysical grounding of political freedom. While Hartshorne is widely known as a process philosopher, Creative Experiencing also shows him in dialogue with the wider currents of both analytic philosophy and phenomenology. The book includes his clearest account of his appropriation of phenomenology, the most succinct presentation of his analysis of time’s asymmetry and its relation to causality, and his fullest statement concerning the meaning of future tense statements.

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Charles Hartshorne, one of the premier metaphysicians of the twentieth century, surmised that Creative Experiencing: A Philosophy of Freedom made his contribution to technical philosophy essentially complete. Found among his papers, this book combines five chapters published here for the first time with revisions and expansions of previously published material. Hartshorne articulates and defends his "neoclassical metaphysics" as an enterprise related to but independent of empirical science, addressing a variety of topics, including the problem of other minds (including nonhuman ones), the competencies of science, the nature of God, the meaning of modal terms, the ontological status of universals, and the metaphysical grounding of political freedom. While Hartshorne is widely known as a process philosopher, Creative Experiencing also shows him in dialogue with the wider currents of both analytic philosophy and phenomenology. The book includes his clearest account of his appropriation of phenomenology, the most succinct presentation of his analysis of time's asymmetry and its relation to causality, and his fullest statement concerning the meaning of future tense statements.

About the Author

Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) is considered by many to be one of the greatest philosophers of religion and metaphysics of the twentieth century. He is the author of several books, including The Darkness and the Light: A Philosopher Reflects Upon His Fortunate Career and Those Who Made It Possible; Wisdom as Moderation: A Philosophy of the Middle Way; and Creativity in American Philosophy, all published by SUNY Press.

Donald Wayne Viney is Professor of Philosophy at Pittsburg State University and the author of Charles Hartshorne and the Existence of God, also published by SUNY Press.

Jincheol O is Minister at the Seoul Memorial Baptist Church in Seoul, South Korea. Previously, he served as the Archives Director at the Center for Process Studies in Claremont, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1438436653
• ISBN 13: 9781438436654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 164
• Editor: Viney Donald Wayne, Jincheol O.