The Mind of Charles Hartshorne: A Critical Examination - Softcover

Viney, Donald Wayne; Shields, George W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1940447445 ISBN 13: 9781940447445

Publisher: Process Century Press, 2020

Synopsis

Charles Hartshorne is the only major philosopher to have lived in three centuries. Now, for the first time, here is one volume that encompasses Hartshorne’s entire life and career, ranging from ornithology to psychology, from aesthetics to philosophical theology, and from analytic philosophy and logic to physics. Charles Hartshorne is widely regarded as an important figure in twentieth-century philosophy. His wide-ranging and diverse contributions encompass both philosophy and science—aesthetics, metaphysics, the history of philosophy, philosophical theology, numerous topics of applied philosophy, psychology, and ornithology. He championed the aspirations of metaphysics when it was unfashionable, and the metaphysic he championed helped change some of the fashions of philosophy. In writing this magisterial compendium of Hartshorne’s life and thought, authors Donald Wayne Viney and George W. Shields—two acknowledged authorities on Hartshorne—had two main aims. First, to give a reasonably comprehensive account of Hartshorne’s philosophy with an eye to presenting his best arguments and correcting some misunderstandings of his views appearing in the critical literature. Second, to update the field of Hartshorne scholarship by including later work by Hartshorne himself and more recent criticism. With these goals, the authors have produced an updated, wide-ranging, and sustained critical overview of Hartshorne’s thinking, the kind of project not seen since Eugene Peters’ landmark study half a century ago. This book is likely be the definitive study of its kind on the life and thought of Charles Hartshorne for some years to come, an indispensable guide for students, process philosophers, Hartshorne scholars, and the educated public at large. May it stimulate further reflection and scholarly research on this truly great and long-lived genius of American philosophical thought!

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About the Authors

Donald Wayne Viney received degrees in philosophy from Colorado State University (BA, 1977) and the University of Oklahoma (MA, 1979 and PhD, 1982) He is a three-time recipient of the title of University Professor at Pittsburg State University (Kansas) and has taught philosophy and religion at PSU since 1984. Viney is the author of Charles Hartshorne and the Existence of God (SUNY 1985) and is the senior editor of Hartshorne's book Creative Experiencing: A Philosophy of Freedom (SUNY 2011). He has written on and translated works of Jules Lequyer. Professor Viney is author of dozens of articles and reviews in the philosophy of religion in professional journals and scholarly books. He is on the editorial boards of Process Studies, The Midwest Quarterly, and The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy.

George W. Shields received the PhD from The University of Chicago and did further study at Oxford University. He is currently serving in the Comparative Humanities PhD Program and the Department of Philosophy at The University of Louisville. He is also Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Environmental Studies and former University Distinguished Professor at Kentucky State University, where he served for 15 years as Chair of Literature, Languages, and Philosophy and interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He is author of nearly 120 articles and reviews in professional journals and scholarly books and is co-author/editor of Process and Analysis: Whitehead, Hartshorne, and the Analytic Tradition and co-author/co-editor of Science, Technology, and Religious Ideas, among other works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Process Century Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1940447445
• ISBN 13: 9781940447445
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 584