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Speculative philosophy in Whitehead
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Whitehead asks a general scheme to be coherent, logically consistent, applicable to experience and adequate to its range. Examine how those demands differ, and what more his ambition for universality requires.
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Whitehead: becoming, experience and the world · Lesson 1 of 9
How can a philosophy answer to experience?
Whitehead sets four demands on a speculative scheme: coherence, logical consistency, applicability and adequacy. The lesson separates an illuminating example from a reason to accept the scheme’s general claims.
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Whitehead: becoming, experience and the world
An experience receives a world it did not make, yet becomes something that was not there before. How can both be true? Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality builds a philosophy around that difficulty, asking us to begin with occasions of becoming and to explain enduring things, perception, judgment and value through their relations.