Sentences with phrase «philosophy of nature»

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

However, let us examine the traditional philosophy of nature based on classical physics and common sense.

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They considered the relation of the forms embodied in reason and the forms embodied in nature, and thus further extended their philosophical speculations far beyond the range of philosophy of nature.

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

The present ecological crisis is partially the practical consequence of the old Newtonian philosophy of nature as dead, insensitive, and mechanical; and Hartshorne's panpsychism should aid man's efforts to rethink his relation to the cosmos.

Consequently, Whitehead's philosophy of nature does not demand that gravity is propagated along the straight lines of a prior geometry, and hence the value of the gravitational constant is not a function of the prior geometry as Will and Ariel claim.

Moon jars began to emerge in Korea from the late 17th century: storage vessels of milky white porcelain, joined imperfectly at the centre (linking two hemispheres), they also carried other small distortions from drying and kiln processes — these «imperfections» converged with philosophies of nature and individuality.

It is the use of the psyche - brain analogy that provides a clarity to Hartshorne's treatment lacking in Leclerc's and shows that the paradigm that solves an important problem in philosophy of nature also solves a crucial problem in philosophical anthropology.

(3) The Demands of Logic: The materialistic philosophy of nature fails to take into account not only our experience of subjective consciousness and the modern revolution in physics.

[29] Additionally, there is great potential for the metaphysically rich, Aristotelian philosophy of nature to be an intellectual bridge for exchanges between the empirical sciences and theology.

It is also true, though, that dualism still lurks behind the dominant contemporary philosophies of nature in which matter remains essentially mindless and lifeless.

Scientific materialism, almost three centuries old, is still the reigning philosophy of nature.

Experimental evidence needs to be integrated into a broader philosophy of nature if one wishes to find (or to deny) the existence of a deity, but the deity so discovered would not yet be seen as the Creator.

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.

BH Beyond Humanism: Essays in the New Philosophy of Nature.

As long as materialism or mechanism seems to be the only plausible philosophy of nature, this existentialist maneuvering is an understandable and forgivable way of keeping us free from absorption into the world - machine.

Scientifically oriented philosophy of nature has usually taken as unshakable the view of perception espoused by the empirical tradition whose charter members are Francis Bacon, John Stuart Mill, John Locke, and David Hume.

If such complete conformity were the case, then determinism would indeed be the only feasible philosophy of nature.

A key task, then, which twentieth - century Catholic theology largely ignored, is to show the fundamental compatibility of the modern natural sciences with a deeper philosophy of nature and a metaphysics of the human person, one religious in orientation.

William James has written with deep feeling concerning the inability of a materialist philosophy of nature to prevent the complete fading of present enjoyments.

If a scientist held a panexperientialist philosophy of nature, rather than a materialistic view, should this have any implications for his work as a scientist, e.g., in methodology, in the interpretation of results, or at least in the choice of projects?

The philosophy he sketched there in the Lowell Lectures as an alternative to scientific materialism was primarily based on the familiar concepts of objects and events drawn from his earlier philosophy of nature.

Philosophy of nature as a field of inquiry ceased to exist.

If the conclusions of modern biology and physics were fully thought out it would be extremely difficult to reconcile them with the classical materialistic philosophies of nature.

Here it is evident that Whitehead's philosophy is attractive to many of us because it makes a real contribution to mainly two domains: theology and contemporary philosophy of nature.

The reigning philosophies of nature, influenced as they still are by the scientific materialism of the classical era in physics, are incapable of sustaining any hope that things of value somehow escape being utterly forgotten.

This more general science is traditionally known as the philosophy of nature.

A fundamental feature of Whitehead's philosophy of nature is his analysis of continuous change.

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.

He thus substitutes for the dynamic actual world of Whitehead, whose perpetual constitution of itself into new entities is creativity, 3 a lifeless past, incapable of exerting real causal efficacy.4 Ironically, when Leclerc turns to the philosophy of nature on his own, he sees that causality requires the agency of the cause, which Whitehead illumined by his basic vision of creativity and immanence.

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).

The early philosophy of nature was based upon what was perceived in a duration of simultaneity (CN 4f, 53), i.e., what is later termed «presentational immediacy.»

In the philosophy of nature developed in the closing years of this period, Whitehead attempted systematically to exclude the knower from nature and to show that nature can be coherently understood without reference to any contribution on the part of the perceiver.

The ultimate philosophical problem of the relation of the knower to the world of nature, he says, is left undetermined by his philosophy of nature.

Indeed, it is evident in Merleau - Ponty that ontology, metaphysics, and even cosmology or a philosophy of nature are not incompatible with a revised phenomenological program.