Process Philosophy: a Survey of Basic Issues

Rescher, Nicholas

ISBN 10: 0822961288 / ISBN 13: 9780822961284

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000

About this Item

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000, soft cover, trade paperback. First Edition (complete number line), 8vo, 144 pp. Bound in black and white glossy covers with white type. The covers are clean with moderate shelfwear, and all four corners are slightly curled. Pages are clean with no ownership names, bookplates, or library markings; not ex-library. Condition: Very Good. The book surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as ?process philosophy. The author explains that reality isn?t made of fixed things but is constantly changing through ongoing processes and interactions. Ships within 24 hours in a new box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Process Philosophy: a Survey of Basic Issues
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822961288
• ISBN 13: 9780822961284
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as "process philosophy." Process philosophy views temporality, activity, and change as the cardinal factors for our understanding of the real―process has priority over product, both ontologically and epistemically. Rescher examines the movement’s historical origins, reflecting a major line of thought in the work of such philosophers as Heracleitus, Leibniz, Bergson, Peirce, William James, and especially A. N. Whitehead. Reacting against the tendency to associate process philosophy too closely with this last-named thinker, Rescher writes, “Indeed, one cardinal task for the partisans of process at this particular juncture of philosophical history is to prevent the idea of 'process philosophy' from being marginalized through a limitation of its bearing to the work and influence of any one single individual or group.” This book will appeal to both students and professors of philosophy. Those teachers who have not been trained in process philosophy will welcome this new text by one one of North America’s foremost philosophers as a perspicuous and informative introduction.

About the Author

Nicholas Rescher was Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and co-chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, the Leibniz Society of North America, the Charles S. Peirce Society, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the Metaphysical Society of America. Rescher was the author or editor of more than one hundred books, including Ignorance (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge), Philosophical Inquiries: An Introduction to Problems of Philosophy, and A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes.