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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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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University of Illinois Press
[2017]
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Process studies
Jahr: 2017, Band: 46, Heft: 1, Seiten: 87-114 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Whitehead, Alfred North 1861-1947
/ Kausalität
/ Abstraktion
/ Erfahrung
/ Subjektivität
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| RelBib Classification: | TK Neueste Zeit VA Philosophie ZD Psychologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | 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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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/process20174615 |