Whitehead and Efficient Causation: The Physical as Conceptual Realization
Whitehead’s understanding of efficient causation is developed in reaction against the prevailing worldview of his scientific and philosophical predecessors’ material abstraction, bodily sensationalism, subject-object bifurcation, and partial subjectivism. Whitehead believed these ideas precluded the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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| In: |
Process studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-114 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Whitehead, Alfred North 1861-1947
/ Causality
/ Abstraction
/ Experience
/ Subjectivity
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| IxTheo Classification: | TK Recent history VA Philosophy ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Sense (Philosophy)
B Reality B Entity (Philosophy) B Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947 B Peer reviewed B Causation B Subjectivity B Abstraction |
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Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Whitehead’s understanding of efficient causation is developed in reaction against the prevailing worldview of his scientific and philosophical predecessors’ material abstraction, bodily sensationalism, subject-object bifurcation, and partial subjectivism. Whitehead believed these ideas precluded the development of any satisfactory account of causal relation and connectivity. His response is to offer a forensic account of the nature of subjective experience within which causal efficacy could be accommodated. Yet Whitehead’s position has its own problems. In response, this article argues for a primordial basis to causal connectivity and for understanding physical causation in terms of conceptual realization. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/process20174615 |
