In this Book
- Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy (discontinued)
summary
Postmodern philosophy is often dismissed as unintelligible, self-contradictory, and as a passing fad with no contribution to make to the problems faced by philosophers in our time. While this characterization may be true of the type of philosophy labeled postmodern in the 1980s and 1990s, David Ray Griffin argues that Alfred North Whitehead had formulated a radically different type of postmodern philosophy to which these criticisms do not apply. Griffin shows the power of Whitehead’s philosophy in dealing with a range of contemporary issues—the mind-body relation, ecological ethics, truth as correspondence, the relation of time in physics to the (irreversible) time of our lives, and the reality of moral norms. He also defends a distinctive dimension of Whitehead’s postmodernism, his theism, against various criticisms, including the charge that it is incompatible with relativity theory.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. vii-x
- Abbreviations
- p. xi
- Part 1. Whitehead’s Philosophy as Postmodern
- Part 2. Whitehead on Consciousness, Ecology, Truth, Time, and Ethics
- Part 3. The Coherence of Whiteheadian Theism
- Bibliography
- pp. 276-296
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791480304
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
123417598
Pages
315
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No