Cosmology and Mesology: Alfred North Whitehead and the Plurality of Worlds

2021 ◽  
pp. 193-209
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Petronio
Keyword(s):  
Alfred North Whitehead

The Event Universe

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leemon B. McHenry
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Physical Theory ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
Linguistic Methods

What kinds of things are events? Battles, explosions, accidents, crashes, rock concerts would be typical examples of events and these would be reinforced in the way we speak about the world. Events or actions function linguistically as verbs and adverbs. Philosophers following Aristotle have claimed that events are dependent on substances such as physical objects and persons. But with the advances of modern physics, some philosophers and physicists have argued that events are the basic entities of reality and what we perceive as physical bodies are just very long events spread out in space-time. In other words, everything turns out to be events. This view, no doubt, radically revises our ordinary common sense view of reality, but as our event theorists argue common sense is out of touch with advancing science. In The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a more adequate basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead’s theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as another key proponent of this theory, W. V. Quine. In this manner, McHenry defends the naturalized and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century.

Living Paradox in Riverine Bangladesh: Whiteheadian Perspectives on Ganga Devi and Khwaja Khijir

1969 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naveeda Khan
Keyword(s):  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Physical Entity ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many

We begin with the words of rural and riverine women from Bangladesh recalling the events of their children's deaths by drowning. These events are cast as the work of supernatural beings, specifically Ganga Devi and Khwaja Khijir, who compel the mothers into forgetfulness and entice the children to the water. Is this a disavowal of loss and responsibility? This article considers that the women, specifically those from northern Bangladesh, assert not only their understanding of the losses that they have suffered but also their changing relationship to the river and its changing nature through their evocations of mythological figures. Alongside the many experiences of the river, the article takes note of its experience as paradoxical, with paradoxicality serving as the occasion for the coming together of the mythological, the material, and the social. The article draws upon Alfred North Whitehead to interrelate the strata of myths and their permutations, with the women's experiences of the river, and the river as a physical entity, allowing us to explore how the women's expressions portend the changing climate.

Alfred North Whitehead

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Kal
Keyword(s):  
Alfred North Whitehead

scholarly journals Alfred North Whitehead: interdisciplinaridade em ação nas pesquisas

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Lília Dias Marianno
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead

O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de destacar o estado da arte da pesquisa sobre Alfred North Whitehead realizada no Brasil considerando como fonte de pesquisa as bases digitais de teses e dissertações a partir de 1985. Em nosso processo de revisão bibliográfica, constatamos que a UFRJ é a instituição de ensino superior que mais produziu teses e dissertações sobre o referido autor e a maior quantidade de pesquisas realizadas se deu no Programa de Pós-Graduação em História das Ciências e das Técnicas e Epistemologia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Em seguida sumarizamos vida e obra bem como delineamos sua epistemologia: o pensamento processual.

Not with a Ten-Foot Pole?

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-66
Author(s):  
Marc A. Pugliese ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighth Century ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Advaita Vedānta ◽  
Advaita Vedanta ◽  
Buddhist Doctrine

This article brings together Alfred North Whitehead and Śaṅkara, the eminent eighth-century teacher of Advaita Vedanta, in a dialogue on causation. After arguing that comparative philosophical encounter is possible, the article investigates how Whitehead might benefit Śaṅkara in his critique of the Buddhist doctrine of momentariness and how Śaṅkara may assist Whitehead in responding to criticisms of his own doctrine of causation and his critique of Hume.

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