8. Reason in Action: Dewey’s Place in Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures (1925–1927)

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Introduction: Assessing and Defining Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures 1
6. Part I: The Role of Biology in Whitehead’s Philosophy
7. 1. From a Philosophy of Evolution to a Philosophy of Organism 19
8. 2. Assessing Whitehead’s ‘Biological Turn’ 39
9. 3. Whitehead and Biology – A Reply to Philippe Gagnon 55
10. 4. Further Clarifications Concerning ‘Assessing Whitehead’s “Biological Turn”’ 73
11. Part II: Mathematics, Logic and Symbolism
12. 5. Symbolic Cognition of Infinity: Using Whitehead’s HL2 to Bridge Symbolism and Principia Mathematica 83
13. Part III: Whitehead’s Philosophical Context
14. 6. The Dipolar Character of Being in Plato and Whitehead 103
15. 7. The Emergence of Organic Empiricism in Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures: Relational Stubbornness and the Being of Practice 115
16. 8. Reason in Action: Dewey’s Place in Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures (1925–1927) 134
17. Part IV: Metaphysical Reflections
18. 9. Whitehead’s Ethics: Fill in the Blanks 153
19. 10. Whitehead on Solidarity: From the Concrete to the System 174
20. 11. Standing Firm in the Flux: On Whitehead’s Eternal Objects 193
21. 12. Whitehead’s 1925–1927 View of Function and Time 224
22. Notes on Contributors 249
23. Index 253