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The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead
Leemon B. McHenry
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Hardback. What kinds of things are events? Philosophers following Aristotle have claimed that events are dependent on substances such as physical objects and persons. The author argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a more adequate basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. Series: Crosscurrents. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 242 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
The author argues that events, not substances, are the fundamental units of reality. What kinds of things are events? Battles, explosions, accidents, crashes, rock concerts would be typical examples of events and these would be reinforced in the way we speak about the world. Philosophers following Aristotle have claimed that events are dependent on substances such as physical objects and persons. But with the advances of modern physics, some philosophers and physicists have argued that events are the basic entities of reality and what we perceive as physical bodies are just very long events spread out in space time. In ... Read more
The author argues that events, not substances, are the fundamental units of reality. What kinds of things are events? Battles, explosions, accidents, crashes, rock concerts would be typical examples of events and these would be reinforced in the way we speak about the world. Philosophers following Aristotle have claimed that events are dependent on substances such as physical objects and persons. But with the advances of modern physics, some philosophers and physicists have argued that events are the basic entities of reality and what we perceive as physical bodies are just very long events spread out in space time. In ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Crosscurrents
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474400343
SKU
V9781474400343
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About Leemon B. McHenry
Leemon McHenry is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University.
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