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This book discusses the problems raised by Whitehead's metaphysics of creativity-metaphysics focused on dynamic becoming rather than on static being-and the proposed solutions to those problems. Whitehead adds a new dimension to the issues of traditional metaphysics by taking into account the world view of our civilization and the results of modern science. His all-embracing speculative cosmology provides a synthesis which goes far beyond the details considered in modern analytic philosophy. To him, the principle of novelty is the universal of universals, and in his system of categories, he aims at avoiding the bifurcation of nature into a physical and mental pole.
Preface
I. The Philosophical Tradition
1. Whitehead and the Dichotomy of Rationalism and Empiricism
Ivor Leclerc
2. Whitehead and Berkeley: On the True Nature of Sense Perception
Ernest Wolf-Gazo
3. Whitehead's Interpretation of Locke in Process and Reality
Rainer Specht
II. Metaphysics and Science
4. Creativity and the Passage of Nature
Dorothy Emmet
5. Whitehead's Concept of Creativity and Modern Science
Friedrich Rapp
6. Whitehead's Cosmology as Revisable Metaphysics
Hans Poser
III. Cosmology and Anthropology
7. What One Thinks: Singular Propositions and the Content of Judgements
Wolfgang Künne
8. Whitehead's Cosmology of Feeling Between Ontology and Anthropology
Reiner Wiehl
9. Which Experiences Teach Us to Understand the World?
Observations on the Paradigm of Whitehead's Cosmology
Robert Spaemann
IV. Creativity and Creation
10. Atom, Duration, Form: Difficulties with Process Philosophy
Wolfhart Pannenberg
11. Creativity as Universal Activity
Jan Van der Veken
12. Creativity: A New Transcendental?
Reto Luzius Fetz
The Authors
Abbreviations
Index of Names
Index of Subjects