Whitehead and Efficient Causation: The Physical as Conceptual Realization

Whitehead’s understanding of efficient causation is developed in reaction against the prevailing worldview of his scientific and philosophical predecessors’ material abstraction, bodily sensationalism, subject-object bifurcation, and partial subjectivism. Whitehead believed these ideas precluded the...

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Main Author: Mir, Amene Rahman (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Illinois Press [2017]
In: Process studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-114
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Whitehead, Alfred North 1861-1947 / Causality / Abstraction / Experience / Subjectivity
RelBib Classification:TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Sense (Philosophy)
B Reality
B Entity (Philosophy)
B Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947
B Peer reviewed
B Causation
B Subjectivity
B Abstraction
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Summary:Whitehead’s understanding of efficient causation is developed in reaction against the prevailing worldview of his scientific and philosophical predecessors’ material abstraction, bodily sensationalism, subject-object bifurcation, and partial subjectivism. Whitehead believed these ideas precluded the development of any satisfactory account of causal relation and connectivity. His response is to offer a forensic account of the nature of subjective experience within which causal efficacy could be accommodated. Yet Whitehead’s position has its own problems. In response, this article argues for a primordial basis to causal connectivity and for understanding physical causation in terms of conceptual realization.
ISSN:2154-3682
Contains:Enthalten in: Process studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5840/process20174615