Sentences with phrase «on philosophy of nature»

It is a slippery slope to go any deeper into this, as I am not sure 100 % on the philosophy of nature vs. nurture.

Though Bergson did not develop an elaborate theory of extensive abstraction, it is not surprising that he should have viewed Whitehead's The Concept of Nature, in which this theory is given its classic formulation, as «one of the most profound (works) ever «written on the philosophy of nature» (DS 62n).

These writings on the philosophy of nature by these thinkers and others are among the most important works of the seventeenth century.

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 metaphysics.

«Susanne K. Langer's Notes on Whitehead's Course on Philosophy of Nature.»

For it can be shown, by a close comparison of the two sets of texts, that the basic metaphysical ideas to be conveyed by that study were already very much in Whitehead's mind when he was writing on the philosophy of nature?

That the works on nature should prove to illuminate and be illuminated by the works on metaphysics is not at all surprising if we take seriously Whitehead's announcement, in the preface to the second edition of The Principles of Natural Knowledge, of his intention «to embody the standpoint of these volumes [on the philosophy of nature] in a more complete metaphysical study» (PNK ix).

In fact, Whitehead's doctrine of the causal immanence of the past in the present provides for the kind of mutual «acting on» and «relating» that Leclerc's own reflections on the philosophy of nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p. 309).

This does not mean that Whitehead abandoned the temporal continuity expressed in the infinite divisibility of events in the writings on the philosophy of nature, but rather that this infinite divisibility was relegated to the domain of the potential in terms of the extensive continuum.

Not exact matches

«I will say that both pursuits appeal to a sense of aesthetics and elegance, and that the self - officiated nature of Ultimate conforms to philosophies of truth and honesty which I hold as a mathematician,» writes Peter Behr, a designer who studied math, on Quora.

She specializes in philosophy of religion and is the editor of Concepts of the Ultimate: Philosophical Perspectives on the Nature of the Divine.

The emphasis on actual entities and prehensions obscures the significance of time in Whitehead's later philosophy, although it was through the development of the study of time in nature that his final position was reached.

Rather because it excludes faith it also excludes philosophical reason, thereby deciding all ultimate questions in advance on the basis of a liberal philosophy of nature and reason so ubiquitous as to be invisible.

Although, the various orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy have different views about the nature of Vedic revelation, they accept the authority of the Vedas and claim that that their thinking is based on these scriptures.

A little knowledge of philosophy is also of help, particularly as Descartes» theories are presented as throwing doubt on the nature of human identity.

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

``... the future of Christian philosophy will therefore depend on the existence or absence of theologians equipped with scientific training, no doubt limited but genuine and, within its own limits, sufficient for them to follow with understanding such lofty dialogues not only in mathematics and physics but also in biology and wherever the knowledge of nature reaches the level of demonstration.»

Second, if our knowledge of God is based exclusively on the history of Jesus Christ and not on pre-Christian philosophies, then the human attributes of Christ in time also tell us what God is in his very nature and being as God.

Not at all Naked... it seems to me very difficult to have lengthy discussions of researched science, math, philosophy, archaeology, etc. etc. on a blog that by its very nature is fraught with personal biting comments (like yours) and pithy responses.

MN — David Ray Griffin, «Whitehead's Philosophy and Some General Notions of Physics and Biology,» Mind in Nature: Essays on the Interface of Science and Philosophy, edited by John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin.

From the speculative endeavor of «On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World» (1906) in which Whitehead was showing how one could construct alternative concepts of the physical world, i.e., cosmologies, he moves into his nature philosophy in which his speculative work is infused with empirical studies.

The public philosophy is the claim that the objective law of right, written into the nature of things, makes on citizens, as contrasted with the claims that the citizens make on the natural and social reality on which they depend.

Secondly, unlike the classical Indian Christian Theology, or for that matter the Indian classical Philosophy of the high caste, which is based on the transcendental nature of the Ultimate Reality and a cyclical view of history.

Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political action on philosophical theories of human nature has done more harm than good.

Already in The Idea of Nature, he made a distinction between Whitehead's realism and that of the analytic philosophy.23 In An Autobiography, he radicalizes that distinction, interpreting Whitehead's realism as contradictory to the realistic epistemology of the neo - positivists.24 Hence, he concludes that Whitehead's cosmology is in fact constructed on an anti-realistic principle (EM 176).

14 In philosophy the empirical and naturalistic school (John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer) as well as the idealistic (Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet) focused their attention on the problems of the nature and development of society.

Most of what is known of human nature from mathematics and the physical sciences is based on reflection on those disciplines and hence is not normally thought to be part of their proper subject matter, but to belong more to the philosophy of science and mathematics.

The author offers his philosophy of religion based on the thought of Alfred North Whitehead as it illuminates thinking about the nature of the world, of God and of man.

Or, on the other hand, is philosophy the study of (world - view) the nature of reality?

that a philosophy of nature must be founded on concrete experience.

Despite the often considerable differences in their interests, views, and philosophic temperaments, and despite the rather different course of careers and subsequent influence on the profession of philosophy generally, there remains the common commitment of both to plumbing the depths of the nature of things, while eschewing nonsense, pretense, fad, and fraud in favor of (as Russell himself might have put the matter) that modest but frequently neglected goal of truth.

In Mind and Nature: Essays on the Interface of Science and Philosophy, ed.

Whitehead, on the other hand, stands at the forefront of a movement that was destined to debunk absolutes in both philosophy and science, in order to grasp the nature of reality with more subtle and flexible intellectual tools.

It was only intended to show that certain concepts of the scholastic philosophy of nature, such as eductio a potentia materiae, if they are thought out without prejudice, compel us to think on lines which are perhaps of a kind to throw light on the real problem that concerns us here.

This different perspective on contingency constitutes, for Pannenberg, one of the major contributions that Christian theology has made to the philosophy of science; e.g. «The doctrine of creation and modern science», 1989, Toward a theology of nature: essays on science and faith, ed.

Under the philosophy of development built on the illusion that change and growth are the same as progress and that any move, especially if it goes in the direction of control and exploitation of nature is to be desired, we have set up the Euro - American culture as the mark of development, and the acceptable level of human consumption.

There one also finds Whitehead's comments on Principia Mathematica, which should be compared with the no less interesting remarks by Bertrand Russell on Whitehead's labors in the philosophy of nature («Logical Atoniism,» in Logical Positivism [ed.

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).

This not only set philosophy in opposition totheology, it cast doubt on the ability of the faylasufXo truly grasp the philosophy of nature.

The Need for a New Synthesis In our new world of scientific insight it is no good relying on the unmodified philosophy of the ancient Greeks with its abstract notion of truth and static concept of nature.

, Mind in Natures Essays on the Interface of Science and Philosophy (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1977).

In any case, the problem of defining the nature of personal identity has been with me during all of my teaching years, especially since a good part of my efforts have been focussed on borderline issues in the philosophy and psychology of personality.

It is also true with the process view that an entity's nature is determined primarily by its relation to other entities; indeed, the whole of Hartshorne's philosophy turns on the concept of reality as a social process.

On a more metaphysically fundamental level, Whitehead's «philosophy of organism also regards knowing as a special case of the «bipolar» nature of all becoming, whereby the direct «physical» response to objective reality is partially transformed by «mental» functioning in the realization of a novel subjective experience.

This remark is consonant with Whitehead's observation that «mind is inside its images, not its images inside the mind...» (Quoted by W.E. Hocking, «Whitehead On Mind and Nature,» The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by P.A. Schilpp [New York: Tudor, 1951], 383 - 404, esp.

I wonder, will Morrisey come to consider Karol Wotjyla's philosophy and the Catechism of the Church that pays his salary to be fundamentally wrongheaded on human nature after watching an episode or two of All That Jazz?

The only profound work of political philosophy on the nature of the American polity was written by a Frenchman.

In truth, everyone has a personal concept of God / Universe / Nature, based on personal experience, whether they have ever been introduced to science, philosophy, or religion.

He thought of philosophy as something going on, as nature and life go on, not as backward - looking commentaries on what was in books.

1See his paper, «Whitehead and Modern Science» in Mind In Nature: Essays on the Interface of Science and Philosophy, edited by John B. Cobb, Jr. and David R. Griffin (University Press of America.