Process Philosophy and Its Problems

1997 ◽  
pp. xxiv-8
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Kraus
Keyword(s):  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Language ◽  
Conscious Processes ◽  
Basic Insight

This chapter presents the nature, basic insight, and linguistic difficulties of process philosophy. Process philosophy is an answer to the being vs. becoming, permanence vs. change problematic which has been central to metaphysical speculation since the time of the Greeks. Two inseparable notions constitute the foundational insight of Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy: the permanence of value achieved and the ongoingness of value achievement. His purpose in writing Process and Reality is to construct a metaphysical scheme capable of elucidating the implications of these notions. The remainder of the chapter discusses the Whitehead's construction of a novel philosophical language and his use of language of consciousness in interpretations of non-conscious processes.

Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Dombrowski
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Static View ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Right

In this work two key theses are defended: political liberalism is a processual (rather than a static) view and process thinkers should be political liberals. Three major figures are considered (Rawls, Whitehead, Hartshorne) in the effort to show the superiority of political liberalism to its illiberal alternatives on the political right and left. Further, a politically liberal stance regarding nonhuman animals and the environment is articulated. It is typical for debates in political philosophy to be adrift regarding the concept of method, but from start to finish this book relies on the processual method of reflective equilibrium or dialectic at its best. This is the first extended effort to argue for both political liberalism as a process-oriented view and process philosophy/theology as a politically liberal view. It is also a timely defense of political liberalism against illiberal tendencies on both the right and the left.

Basic Concepts and Definitions of Allergology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoran Vrucinic
Keyword(s):  
Immune Reaction ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Response ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Medical Vocabulary ◽  
The Future ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Basic Insight ◽  
Insight Into

The future of medicine belongs to immunology and alergology. I tried to not be too wide in description, but on the other hand to mention the most important concepts of alergology to make access to these diseases more understandable, logical and more useful for our patients, that without complex pathophysiology and mechanism of immune reaction,we gain some basic insight into immunological principles. The name allergy to medicine was introduced by Pirquet in 1906, and is of Greek origin (allos-other + ergon-act; different reaction), essentially representing the reaction of an organism to a substance that has already been in contact with it, and manifested as a specific response thatmanifests as either a heightened reaction, a hypersensitivity, or as a reduced reaction immunity. Synonyms for hypersensitivity are: altered reactivity, reaction, hypersensitivity. The word sensitization comes from the Latin (sensibilitas, atis, f.), which means sensibility,sensitivity, and has retained that meaning in medical vocabulary, while in immunology and allergology this term implies the creation of hypersensitivity to an antigen. Antigen comes from the Greek words, anti-anti + genos-genus, the opposite, anti-substance substance that causes the body to produce antibodies.

scholarly journals Conscious and Non-Conscious Processes Regulate Minority Older Adults’ Sedentary Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 335-335
Author(s):  
Jaclyn Maher ◽  
Derek Hevel ◽  
Kourtney Sappenfield ◽  
Heidi Scheer ◽  
Christine Zecca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Sedentary Behavior ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Black African ◽  
Affective Consequences ◽  
Introductory Session ◽  
Conscious Processes ◽  
Multilevel Linear Regression ◽  
Age Range

Abstract Accumulating evidence suggests that sedentary behavior (SB), or time spent sitting, is regulated by both conscious (e.g., intentions) and non-conscious (e.g., habits) motivational processes. Much of the work investigating these processes has employed summary-based measures of typical motivation and behavior. This study employed ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methods and accelerometry to determine the extent to which conscious and non-conscious processes regulate minority older adults’ momentary decisions to engage in SB. Over the course of the 8-day study, minority older adults (N=91; age range: 60-89 years, 96% Black/African American) answered 6 EMA questionnaires/day on a mobile phone and wore an ActivPAL activity monitor to measure SB. EMA questionnaires assessed momentary intentions to limit SB over the next two hours. SB habit strength was self-reported at an introductory session. Results from a multilevel linear regression model indicated that on occasions when individuals had stronger intentions than usual to limit SB, they subsequently engaged in less SB (b=-3.72, p<0.01). Individuals who had stronger SB habits, tended to engage in more SB (b=3.00, p<0.01). An additional multilevel model revealed that habits did not significantly moderate the association between momentary intentions and subsequent SB (b=-1.06, p=0.09). In conclusion, minority older adults’ momentary SB appears to be directly influenced by both conscious and non-conscious motivational processes, though the interactive effects are unclear. Interventions to reduce minority older adults’ SB should include content to increase intentions to limit SB (e.g., information on instrumental and affective consequences) and disrupt habitual SB (e.g., action planning).

Moral Obligation in Process Philosophy

1959 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Daniel D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Process Philosophy

An Ecological Politics of Everyday Life: Placing Flesh on Whitehead's Process Philosophy in Search of "Green" Possibilities

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Carolan
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Process Ontology ◽  
Original Process ◽  
Knowledge Practice ◽  
Ecological Politics ◽  
First Philosophy

AbstractThis paper highlights the significance of embodied, non-representational knowledge for understanding nature as a process (rather than a state). It begins by discussing Alfred North Whitehead's "first philosophy", out of which arises his profoundly original process ontology. Working from this alternative ontology, the paper then extends these insights "up" to the realms of knowledge, practice, and the corporeal poetics of everyday life. In doing this, discussion centers on what the author refers to as an ecological politics of everyday life. The paper concludes by briefly discussing a case where such a politics of the flesh is already underway.

O. Spengler’s Philosophy of Technics in the Context of Global Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 106-112
Author(s):  
Nikolay S. Skipin
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Philosophical Language

The article is devoted to the analysis of O. Spengler’s treatise “Man and Technics”, as well as the “global culture” interpretation from the point of view of the method proposed by the philosopher. For the most the author of the article deals with the description and supplementing of O. Spengler’s logic in relation to the technics and culture. He shows the “genetic” connection of the reasoning of the philosopher-irrationalist with the rational tradition, with the concept of organ projection and the specific ideas of Marxist philosophers. Three “questions about technics” as formulated by the philosopher are defined: “What is the essence of the technics?”, “What is the essence of human technics?” and “How do human technics exist?” The analysis of the treatise is followed by the part devoted to O. Spengler’s ideas interpretation. A new concept is introduced into the philosophical language field - “artificializing”, which means the process of establishing the “artificial” from the “natural”. The author also shows the development of the idea of “artificializing” the whole world. He illustrates the development of ​​V.I. Vernadsky’s ideas regarding the geological role of man in the concept of the technosphere and global culture. The problem of the coincidence of the Faustian culture with the global culture and Earth culture is touched upon by the author.

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