Alfred North Whitehead: Essays on His Philosophy

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Sources vii
• Contents ix
• Introduction 1
• Part I - Whitehead as Man and Thinker 7
• Whitehead's Novel Intuition 18
• Part II - Logic, Mathematics, and Methodology 27
• Whitehead And "Mathematicism" 33
• The Place of Mathematics In Whitehead's Philosophy 41
• Part III - Metaphysics and Cosmology 53
• Whitehead's Answer to Hume: A Reply 63
• Whitehead's Theory Of Becoming 70
• Whitehead's Theory Of Prehensions 81
• Whitehead's Explanation Of The Past 93
• Of What Use Are Whitehead's Eternal Objects? 102
• Whitehead and the Problem Of Extension 117
• The Concept of Experience In Whitehead's Metaphysics 124
• The Subjectivist Principle And the Linguistic Turn 134
• Organic Categories In Whitehead 158
• Part IV - Ethics, Aesthetics, and Philosophical Theology 168
• Responsibility, Punishment, And Whitehead's Theory Of the Self 179
• Note 189
• Part V - Documents and Materials 196
• Corrigenda for Process And Reality 200
• Contributors 208
• Index 212

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