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The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead

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The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead

Leemon B. McHenry, "The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead "
English | ISBN: 1474400345 | 2015 | 184 pages | PDF | 989 KB

Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better 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 W. V. Quine. In this way, McHenry defends the naturalised and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century.
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