Process and reality : an essay in cosmology : Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh during the session 1927-28

One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century,__Process and Reality__is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.Whitehead’s master work in philsophy,__Process and Reality__propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant.The ultimate edition of Whitehead’s magnum opus,__Process and Reality__is a standard reference for scholars of all backgrounds. Process And Reality, Whitehead's Magnum Opus, Is One Of The Major Philosophical Works Of The Modern World, And An Extensive Body Of Secondary Literature Has Developed Around It. Yet Surely No Significant Philosophical Book Has Appeared In The Last Two Centuries In Nearly So Deplorable A Condition As Has This One, With Its Many Hundreds Of Errors And With Over Three Hundred Discrepancies Between The American (macmillan) And The English (cambridge) Editions, Which Appeared In Different Formats With Divergent Paginations. The Work Itself Is Highly Technical And Far From Easy To Understand, And In Many Passages The Errors In Those Editions Were Such As To Compound The Difficulties. The Need For A Corrected Edition Has Been Keenly Felt For Many Decades. The Speculative Scheme. Speculative Philosophy ; The Categoreal Scheme ; Some Derivative Notions -- Discussions And Applications. Fact And Form ; The Extensive Continuum ; The Order Of Nature ; Organisms And Environment ; Locke And Hume ; From Descartes To Kant ; The Subjectivist Principle ; Symbolic Reference ; The Propositions ; Process ; Propositions And Feelings ; The Higher Phases Of Experience -- The Theory Of Extension. Coordinate Division ; Extensive Connection ; Flat Loci ; Strains ; Measurement -- Final Interpretation. The Ideal Opposites ; God And The World. By Alfred North Whitehead. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whiteheads influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy. Whiteheads master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant. The ultimate edition of Whiteheads magnum opus, Process and Reality is a standard reference for scholars of all backgrounds.

Based on the Gifford Lectures which Whitehead delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1927-8. Process and Reality presents a system of speculative philosophy which is based on a categorical scheme of investigation designed to explain how concrete aspects of human experience can provide a foundation for our understanding of reality. It also investigates how reality can be defined as a process of becoming.