Stubborn Fact and Creative Advance

An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead

By (author) E. S. C. E. Hosinski

Publication date:

23 August 1993

Length of book:

300 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780847678273

'...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

At last, however, we have in Hosinski's fine book an exceptional approachable introduction to process thought, and one especially apt for those who wish to examine its theological possibilities.