Stubborn Fact and Creative Advance : An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead

"...an attractive alternative to Victor Lowe's __Understanding Whitehead__, Ivor Leclerc's __Whitehead's Metaphysics__, and Donald Sherburne's __A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality__....Recommended for advanced undergraduates and beyond."-CHOICE Chapter 1 Introduction: Whitehead and His Philosophy of Organism Part 2 Part I: Human Experience and Actual Entities Chapter 3 Human Experience and Common Sense Chapter 4 The Theory of Concrescence: Initial Phase Chapter 5 Theory of Concrescence: Responsive and Integrative Phases Chapter 6 The Theory of Concrescence: The Supplemental Phases in "Higher Grade" Occasions Chapter 7 Societies and Grades of Actual Occasions Part 8 Part II: God and the World Chapter 9 The Primordial Nature of God: The Unity of Actuality Chapter 10 The Ultimacy of God Part 11 Part III: Whitehead and Christian Theology Chapter 12 The Usefulness of Whitehead's Philosophy for Christian Theology "...an attractive alternative to Victor Lowe's Understanding Whitehead , Ivor Leclerc's Whitehead's Metaphysics , and Donald Sherburne's A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality ....Recommended for advanced undergraduates and beyond."-CHOICE