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The metaphysics of experience: a companion to Whitehead's Process and reality
Elizabeth M. Kraus
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Note (page xi)
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Abbreviations (page xiii)
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Foreword (page xv)
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Preface (page xix)
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1. Process Philosophy and Its Problems (page 1)
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I. The Nature of Process Philosophy (page 1)
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II. The Language Problem (page 3)
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III. The Language of Feeling (page 7)
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2. Science and the Modern World as a Romantic Version of Process and Reality (page 9)
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I. The Rhythms of Growth (page 9)
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II. Scientific Materialism and the Fallacy of Simple Location (page 10)
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III. Prehension as the Basis of Induction (page 15)
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IV. The Actual Occasion as a Space-Time Quantum (page 19)
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V. The Literary Experience (page 25)
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VI. Eternal Objects (page 28)
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VII. Creativity (page 35)
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VII. God (page 37)
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3. The Speculative Scheme (PR, Part I) (page 41)
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I. The Nature of Speculative Philosophy (page 41)
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II. The Categoreal Scheme and Derivative Notions (page 46)
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4. Discussions and Applications (PR, Part II) (page 60)
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I. Fact and Form (page 60)
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II. The Extensive Continuum (page 63)
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III. Order, Society, Organisms, and Environment (page 65)
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IV. The Modal Theory of Perception (page 75)
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a. Perception in the Mode of Causal Efficacy (page 78)
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b. Perception in the Mode of Presentational Immediacy (page 82)
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c. Perception in the Mode of Symbolic Reference (page 86)
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V. Prolegomenon to a Theory of Judgment: Propositions (page 93)
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VI. The Theory of Judgment (page 100)
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VII. Process: An Overview (page 105)
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5. The Structure of a Concrescence (PR, Part III) (page 107)
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I. The Nature of Genetic Analysis (page 107)
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II. The Nature of Feelings in General (page 108)
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III. The Primary Feelings (page 114)
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IV. Propositions and Feelings (page 119)
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V. Comparative Feelings (page 124)
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6. The Theory of Extension (PR, Part IV) (page 135)
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I. Coordinate Division (page 135)
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II. Extensive Connection (page 142)
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III. Flat Loci (page 150)
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IV. Strains (page 158)
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V. Measurement (page 163)
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7. God and the World (PR, Part V) (page 168)
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I. God the Redeemer (page 168)
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II. Concluding Meditations (page 179)
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Bibliography (page 185)
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Indices (page 187)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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TCPS | 16.1 (1980): 82-85 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40319878 |
RM | 33.3 (1980): 638-639 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20127406 |
JAAR | 48.2 (1980): 299-299 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1462732 |
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Published: 1998
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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