Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface 7
4. I. Process and Universals
5. Process Philosophy and the Problem of Universals 13
6. Abstraction and Individuation in Whitehead and Wiehl: A Comparative Historical Approach 39
7. II. Nature and Subjectivity
8. Prehension 123
9. Whitehead, Hume and the Phenomenology of Causation 137
10. Subjectivity, System and Intersubjectivity 159
11. Maxwell’s Field and Whitehead’s Events: The Adventure of a Revolutionary Idea 177
12. III. Ethics and Civilization
13. Morality and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts 193
14. Can Specific Rules be Deduced from Moral Principles? 221
15. Ethical Quantities 241
16. The Wand of the Enchanter 249
17. Creativity, Efficacy and Vision: Ethics and Psychology in an Open Universe 263
18. IV. Psychology and Phenomenology
19. Truthfulness and Memory: Philosophical Notes on Trauma 285
20. Empathy and Reliability: Albert Fraenkel as seen by his Patients Hesse and Jaspers 303
21. On Gadamer, Phenomenology and Historical Relativism 311
22. Max Scheler on Love and Hate: A Phenomenological Approach 335
23. About the Authors 345
24. Analytical Table of Contents 349
25. Process Thought Series 354