Sentences with phrase «earlier philosophy of nature»

«4 Ford calls this Whitehead's «First Metaphysical Synthesis» and says that it is continuous with Whitehead's earlier philosophy of nature.5 But when Whitehead adds the concept of «temporal atomicity» (elementary events can not be subdivided into subevents which are fully actual), this provokes a»... subjectivism of actual occasions open to the real influence of possibility,» and»... generates an unexpected role for God as the antecedent limitation of this possibility.

In Einstein's theory we also have a concept of matter completely different from that of the earlier philosophy of nature.

We have noted that in the earlier philosophy of nature the concepts of matter and body were equivalent.

No such limitation of simultaneity as a physically relevant relation exists in his earlier philosophy of nature.12 In addition, Whitehead appends a note to this statement which has an oddly apologetic tone, especially when one reads the note (as I think one must) as explaining how the statement above is compatible with Einsteinian assumptions: «This principle lies on the surface of the fundamental Einsteinian formula for the physical continuum (PR 61 / 96).

In his earlier philosophy of nature, and in the original Lowell Lectures, Whitehead conceived of actual events as being divisible into smaller events ad infinitum.

1He has also written a specific technical study of Whitehead's earlier philosophy of nature: «The Location of the Physical Objects,» Philosophy, 4 (1929), 64 - 75.

Originally being was Whitehead's inclusive category for every event considered in the earlier philosophy of nature.

Her own sympathies, at least with respect to causation, focus upon Whitehead's early philosophy of nature: «I now find myself distanced from his later writings, but increasingly sympathetic to the middle ones [e.g. SMW], especially as he was working towards a generalized notion of «organism,» and when his «passage of nature» could be seen not as one datum after another, but as a pattern - forming and pattern - sustaining process which could support a dynamic view of a causation underlying more restricted kinds» (CE vii).

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The early Christians were Jewish in their conception of the interior nature of man and they never became anything else until they fell under the influence of Greek philosophy.

His doctrine of eternal objects in both his earlier and later philosophy can be understood as a description of the ontological nature of pure logic and mathematics (EWP 14 - 28).

A critical examination of the scholastic philosophy of nature may well give the impression that in its earlier history it often inevitably and of necessity took for granted certain processes of change as indisputable facts.

Whitehead's «method of extensive abstraction» is used not only in his early writings in the philosophy of natural science but also in his later, more metaphysical, writings to abstract from the complexity of the relations which comprise the datum of sense - perception and to isolate by a conceptual analysis those relations which express a uniform metric structure, that is, to «exhibit» a basis of uniformity in nature.21 It is the sense in which this uniformity is «required» that is the crucial point for further investigation.

Morgan had earlier complained (EEV) about Whitehead's treatment of mind in CN as wholly distinct from nature, and objected to Whitehead's earlier claim that the study of their relations constitutes metaphysics rather than philosophy of science.

Note, third, that the limited standpoint of the earlier works on the philosophy of nature — The Principles of Natural Knowledge, The Concept of Nature, and The Principle of Relativity — is to be embodied in the more comprehensive standpoint of the later works on metaphnature — The Principles of Natural Knowledge, The Concept of Nature, and The Principle of Relativity — is to be embodied in the more comprehensive standpoint of the later works on metaphNature, and The Principle of Relativity — is to be embodied in the more comprehensive standpoint of the later works on metaphysics.

Earlier, and until about two centuries ago, there had been a main field of inquiry known as philosophia naturalis, the philosophy of nature.

It should be emphasized, what is sometimes liable to be overlooked, that Whitehead's recovery of the problematic of the philosophy of nature would not have been possible without his having gone back extensively to earlier philosophy, especially Greek and that of the seventeenth century.

He can in this way realign philosophy with contemporary scientific theory, while at the same time providing the latter with a «ground» in immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective process.9

As a contemporary commentator noted as early as 1865, Mill's anti-Hamiltonian view of feeling as a neutral stuff prior to the correlation of Ego and Non-Ego, and his confession that the continuity of feeling, though as real as the sequence, was a «final inexplicability» 4 — both positions impelled British philosophy in the direction of some kind of original unity.5 To this end, Bradley will conflate the «feeling» of Hegel and of Mill in order to transform it from a psychological into a metaphysical category that can accomplish the reconciliation of nature and spirit.

Early education, by contrast, remains mired in philosophy, in broad theories of the nature of child development, and in practices that spring from appeals to authority and official pronouncements of professional guilds, rather than to research.