Speculative Empiricism: Revisiting Whitehead

by Didier Debaise

Book Overview

Can experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconciled with a method of systematic cosmological speculation?
Didier Debaise's reading of Process and Reality shows clearly what a philosophy that makes this possible looks like, how it works and what is at stake. He focuses in on Whitehead's attempt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474423051
• ISBN13: 9781474423052
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"