The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead

by Leemon B. McHenry

Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead's theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as W. V. Quine. In this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474474578
• ISBN13: 9781474474573
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"