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XIV. Weber et al., Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality
Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (eds.), Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality, Frankfurt / Lancaster, ontos verlag, Process Thought XIV, 2006. (354 p. ; ISBN 978-3-938793-38-1 ; 98 €)
This volume gathers prominent international scholars to celebrate the complex legacy of Reiner Wiehl, whose work has been instrumental in bringing together the European tradition of prima philosophia as represented by Plato, Spinoza, Kant and Hegel, with the adventurous speculative renewal of the twentieth century by Alfred North Whitehead. Grouped into four sections (Process and Universals, Nature and Subjectivity, Ethics and Civilization, Psychology and Phenomenology) the fifteen papers collected in this book cover a range of topics which is as wide and as intertwined as Wiehl’s own expertise : the common thread that runs through all contributions is the problematic nature of subjectivity and especially of its process slant, that can be grasped only through the static schemes of rationality.
Table of contents
Preface
I. Process and Universals
Reiner Wiehl (Heidelberg), Process Philosophy and the Problem of Universals
Anderson Weekes (New York), The Metaphysics of Individuality in Whitehead and Wiehl
II. Nature and Subjectivity
John B. Cobb, Jr. (Claremont), On Prehension
Pierfrancesco Basile (Zürich), Whitehead, Hume and the Phenomenology of Causation
Joseph A. Bracken (Xavier), Creativity versus Rationality ?
Leemon B. McHenry (California State), Maxwell’s Field and Whitehead’s Events
III. Ethics and Civilization
David Ray Griffin (Claremont), Morality and Scientific Naturalism
John W. Lango, Can Specific Rules be Deduced from Moral Principles ?
Nicholas Rescher (Pittsburgh) Ethical Quantities
George Allan (Dickinson), The Wand of the Enchanter
Michel Weber (Chromatiques), Creativity, Efficacy and Vision
IV. Psychology and Phenomenology
Michael Hampe (Zürich), Trauma, Freud, and the history of a personal life
Bernd Weidmann (Heidelberg), Albert Fraenkel mirrored by his patients Hermann Hesse and Karl Jaspers
On Gadamer, Phenomenology and Historical Relativism
Alon Segev (Heidelberg), Helmut Maaßen (K. v. Galen Gymasium), The logic of Emotions