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The essays in this book examine the proposition that an interpretation of subjects and subjectivity from the ontological perspective, first outlined by Alfred North Whitehead and elaborated by Ivor Leclerc, provides the foundation that is essential in order to develop a philosophy of nature and human action.
Acknowledgments
Foreword Robert C. Neville
Introduction
Section One: Historical Antecedents
1. Kant's Criticism of Panpsychism from the Perspective of the Whiteheadian Metaphysics of Subjectivity [translated from German]
Reiner Wiehl
2. The Nature of Nature: Kant and Whitehead
Gordon Treash
3. Leibniz and Modern Science
Errol E. Harris
4. Metaphysical Lessons of Idealism
Hugo A. Meynell
Section Two: The Subject as Creative
5. Creativity as General Activity
Jan Van der Veken and André Cloots
6. Mais Où Sont Les Neiges D'Antan?
Donald W. Sherburne
7. Perfecting the Ontological Principle
Lewis S. Ford
8. The Systematic Ambiguity of Some Key Whiteheadian Terms
George L. Kline
9. To Be Is To Be Substance-In-Relation
W. Norris Clarke, S. J.
Section Three: The Subject as Foundation
10.Temporality and the Concept of Being
Albert Shalom
11.The Metaphor of a Foundation for Knowledge
Edward Pols
12.Collective Guilt
Jude P. Dougherty
Section Four: Science, Interaction and the Philosophy of Nature
13.Metaphysical Systems and Scientific Theories: A Structural Comparison
Friedrich Rapp
14.The Philosophical Content of Quantum Chemistry
Paul A. Bogaard
15.6The Nature of Chemical Existence
Joseph E. Earley
16.What is Time?
Ilya Prigogine
Section Five: Subjectivity and God
17.God, Necessary and Contingent; World, Contingent and Necessary;and the Fifteen Other Options in Thinking About God
Charles Hartshorne
18.Persons and God
Hywel D. Lewis
Contributors
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects