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Whitehead's Organic Philosophy of Science Ann L. Plamondon State University of New York Press Albany 1979

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title	:	Whitehead's Organic Philosophy of Science
author	:	Plamondon, Ann L.
publisher	:	State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0873951662
print isbn13	:	9780873951661
ebook isbn13	:	9780585064222
language	:	English
subject	Science--Philosophy, Metaphysics, Whitehead, Alfred North,--1861-1947.
publication date	:	1979
lcc	:	Q175.P564eb
ddc	:	192
subject	:	Science--Philosophy, Metaphysics, Whitehead, Alfred North,--1861-1947.

Whitehead's Organic Philosophy of Science First Edition Published by State University of New York Press Albany, New York 12246 Copyright 1979 State University of New York All rights reserved Composed by Typography Services Loudonville, New York 12211 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Plamondon, Ann L. Whitehead's organic philosophy of science. Includes bibliographical references. 1. SciencePhilosophy. 2. Metaphysics. 3. Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. I. Title. Q175.P56419278-7350 ISBN 0-87395-166-2

Page vii CONTENTS Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 Part One. The Development of Whitehead's Thought Chapter I. Geometry Section 1. The thesis of the first period 9 Section 2. The thesis of the second period 13 Section 3. The thesis of the third period 20 Section 4. The implications of Whitehead's metaphysics for the ontological status of geometrical entities 23 Chapter II. Number Section 5. The thesis of the first period 34 Section 6. The implications of Whitehead's metaphysics for the ontological status of number 36 Part Two. Foundational Concepts for the Philosophy of Organism Chapter III. Organism and Environment Section 7. Organic mechanism 41 Section 8. Organism 44 Section 9. Environment 46 Chapter IV. The Order of Nature Section 10. The problem of societies 52 Section 11. A model for understanding societies 53 Section 12. The order of nature 55 Chapter V. Foundational Concepts and Evolution Section 13. The incoherence of materialism 62 Section 14. The coherence of organism 66 Part Three. Metaphysics and a Logic of Science Chapter VI. Contemporary Schools of Thought in the Philosophy of Science in the English-speaking World Section 15. Formalism and historical relativism 71

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