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In philosophy, especially metaphysics, the book Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead sets out its author's philosophy of organism, also called process philosophy. The book, published in 1929, is a revision of the Gifford Lectures he gave in 1927-28.
Process philosophy lays the groundwork for a paradigm of subjectivity, which Whitehead calls a "completed metaphysical language." (p. 18)
- "We diverge from Descartes by holding that what he has described as primary attributes of physical bodies, are really the forms of internal relationships between actual occasions. Such a change of thought is the shift from materialism to Organic Realism, as a basic idea of physical science." , p. 471.
A signal technical feature of Process and Reality is the way its ontology is grounded in mereotopology, a mathematical formalism combining mereological and topological notions.
See also
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Mereotopology
- Philosophy of Organism
- Process philosophy
- Whitehead's point-free geometry
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