Contemporary Schools of Economic Thought

Chapters in this book

1. Volume I—Thematic Entries
2. Frontmatter I
3. Contents 3
4. Abbreviations 10
5. Preface 11
6. I. Introduction 15
7. II. Aesthetics
8. Cosmological and Civilized Harmonies 41
9. III. Anthropology
10. Communities and Destinies 55
11. IV. Ecology
12. Ecology Between Natural Science and Environmental Ethics 69
13. Ecofeminism: Women, Nature, Dualism and Process-Relational Philosophy 87
14. Works Cited and Further Readings 98
15. V. Economy
16. Whitehead on Economics 101
17. Addendum: Further Commentary on the Work of Economist Herman Daly 115
18. Contemporary Schools of Economic Thought 119
19. Management and Organization Studies 127
20. Action, Entrepreneurship and Evolution 145
21. Ecological Economics and Human Ecology 161
22. Works Cited and Further Readings 177
23. VI. Education Whitehead’s Philosophy of Education: Its Promise and Relationship to the Philosophy of Organism Whitehead’s Philosophy of Education: Its Promise and Relationship to the Philosophy of Organism
24. Whitehead’s Philosophy of Education: Its Promise and Relationship to the Philosophy of Organism 185
25. Education as Creative Power 199
26. Works Cited and Further Readings 210
27. VII. Ethics
28. Process and Morality 215
29. Nonhuman Animal Rights 225
30. Works Cited and Further Readings 235
31. VIII. History
32. Process Interpretations of History 237
33. IX. Metaphysics
34. Metaphysics and Cosmology 255
35. The Mystery of Creativity 265
36. Intensity and Subjectivity 279
37. Extension and the Theory of the Physical Universe 291
38. Speculative Metaphysics with Applications: A Whiteheadian Way Forward 303
39. The Unifying Moment: Toward a Theory of Complexity 315
40. Pragmatism and Process 325
41. Phenomenology and Metaphysics 339
42. Whitehead’s Interpretation of Zeno 349
43. Works Cited and Further Readings 356
44. X. Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind
45. Process Metapsychology 363
46. Consciousness and the Physical World 371
47. Mind-Body Problem and Panpsychism 383
48. Hypnosis: Panpsychism in Action 395
49. The Experimental Examination of Process 415
50. Process Neuropsychology, Microgenetic Theory and Brain Science 423
51. A Whiteheadian Enquiry Concerning Ethnopsychoanalysis 437
52. Works Cited and Further Readings 452
53. XI. Public Policy and Natural Law
54. Political Theory 459
55. Whiteheadian Public Policy: Depolarization for Network Coalescence 471
56. Prolegomena to a Process Theory of Natural Law 507
57. Saving Civilization: Straussian and Whiteheadian Political Philosophy 521
58. Works Cited and Further Readings 533
59. XII. Sociology of Science
60. Kuhn and Whitehead 537
61. XIII. Theology and Religion
62. Whitehead’s Rethinking of the Problem of Evil 549
63. Whitehead’s Natural Theology: The Implications of Order and Novelty 561
64. Contact Made Vision: The Apocryphal Whitehead 573
65. Islam and Process Theology 601
66. Whitehead and Chinese Philosophy: The Ontological Principle and Huayan Buddhism’s Concept of shi 613
67. Works Cited and Further Readings 628
68. XIV. Theory of Knowledge
69. Symbolism: The Organic Functioning of Reason 633
70. The Method of Extensive Abstraction: The Construction of Objects 645
71. Time and Experience 653
72. Works Cited and Further Readings 664
73. XV. Urbanism and Architecture
74. Cosmological and Urban Spaces 667
75. Analytic Table of Contents 679
76. Volume II — Thematic Entries; Biographical Entries; Critical Apparatus
77. Frontmatter I
78. Contents 1
79. Abbreviations 4
80. XVI. Language
81. Theory of Language 5
82. Whiteheadian and Functional Linguistics 21
83. Pattern and Process 33
84. Pragmaticism and Semiotics 41
85. Whitehead's Construction of Time: A Linguistic Approach 55
86. XVII. Mathematics and Logic
87. Whitehead’s Universal Algebra 67
88. Vector Mathematics: Symbol versus Form 87
89. Foundations of Mathematics and Logicism 97
90. Order and Change: The Memoir “On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World” 105
91. Mathematical Features of Whitehead’s Point-free Geometry 119
92. Extension in PR Part IV 131
93. XVIII. Sciences
94. Biology 157
95. Chemistry
96. On Molecules and Their Chemical Transformation 171
97. Ontologically Significant Aggregation: Process Structural Realism (PSR) 179
98. Computer Science: Form without Content 193
99. Quantum Mechanics
100. Quantum Theory and Process Metaphysics: The Mechanics of Concrescence 205
101. Quantum Mechanics and Panpsychism 223
102. Relativity Physics
103. Physics and Relativity 235
104. Durations and Simultaneities: Temporal Perspectives and Relativistic Time in Whitehead and Bergson 259
105. XIX. Biographical entries
106. Whitehead’s Historico-Speculative Context 283
107. Whitehead’s Contemporaries 345
108. Whitehead’s Scholarly Legacy: American Pioneers 547
109. Whitehead’s Scholarly Legacy: European Pioneers 627
110. XX. Critical Apparatus
111. General Bibliography 687
112. Index of Subjects 688
113. Index of Names 705
114. Detailed Table of Contents 716
115. Backmatter 721