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15The Metaphysics of Consciousness (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.What is consciousness? What is the place of consciousness in nature? These and related questions occupy a prominent place in contemporary studies in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, often involving complex interdisciplinary connections between philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, biology and cognitive neuroscience. At the same time, these questions play a fundamental role in the philosophies of great thinkers of the past such as, among others, Plotinus, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, W…Read more
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2Monadologie und Relationen – Whitehead, Russell und die Ablehnung der Substanz-MetaphysikIn Gianluigi Segalerba, Antonella Lang-Balestra & Holger Gutschmidt (eds.), Substantia – Sic et Non. Eine Geschichte des Substanzbegriffs von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in Einzelbeiträgen, Ontos. pp. 445-460. 2008.
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7Whitehead, Hume and the Phenomenology of CausationIn Michel Weber Pierfrancesco Basile (ed.), Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality, Ontos Verlag. pp. 137-158. 2006.
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9The Last Man Standing Argument for panpsychism: A rejoinderIn Michael Blamauer (ed.), The Mental as Fundamental: New Perspectives on Panpsychism, Ontos Verlag. pp. 35-52. 2011.
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Ch. 10. Bradley's metaphysicsIn W. J. Mander (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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16Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School: Preempting the Problem of Intentionality by Lisa Landoe HedrickReview of Metaphysics 75 (2): 377-379. 2021.
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10Whitehead's Metaphysics of Power: Reconstructing Modern PhilosophyEdinburgh University Press. 2017.At the beginning of his magnum opus, Process and Reality (1929), Whitehead lists a series of beliefs which he thinks are widely held by contemporary philosophers. They are all condemned as dangerously mistaken. What are these myths? Why are they rejected? In the works of which modern thinker did they arise? What precisely went wrong? At what stage in the development of Western thought did this happen? By tackling these questions, Pierfrancesco Basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts …Read more
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17British Idealism and the Concept of the Self ed. by William J. Mander and Stamatoula PanagakouJournal of the History of Philosophy 57 (3): 564-565. 2019.According to the editors of this book, “The history of philosophy as taught today is a highly selective activity. In its determination to tell a particular story, it passes over in silence large swathes of otherwise interesting philosophical work”. This claim would have been worthy of serious consideration had it been made a few decades ago—that is to say, at a time when analytic philosophy was a clearly recognizable philosophical movement. The “particular story” according to which the works of …Read more
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The Metaphysics of Consciousness: Volume 67 (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.What is consciousness? What is the place of consciousness in nature? These and related questions occupy a prominent place in contemporary studies in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, often involving complex interdisciplinary connections between philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, biology and cognitive neuroscience. At the same time, these questions play a fundamental role in the philosophies of great thinkers of the past such as, among others, Plotinus, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, W…Read more
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55In this Festschrift honoring the work of Timothy L. S. Sprigge, Sprigge summarizes his philosophy (a synthesis of absolute idealism, panpsychism, and utilitarianism), defends his position against criticism raised by philosophers in the preceding chapters of this volume, and offers in an addendum a proof for the existence of the Absolute, namely, a final and all-embracing Consciousness akin in many ways to Spinoza’s God. This defense of his philosophy consists mainly of responses to various poin…Read more
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8BAYER Thora Ilin and Donald Phillip Verene (eds): Giambattista Vico: KeysBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (4): 893-896. 2009.
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50Process and Reality in Bradley’s Metaphysics of ExperienceBradley Studies 8 (1): 83-106. 2002.Bradley believes that the metaphysician’s dream of contemplating reality sub specie aeternitatis cannot be fulfilled. The theory of thought put forward in The Principles of Logic provides him with a basis for arguing that human understanding is inadequate to the task of grasping the ultimate truth about what there is. His position is far from being a sceptical one, however, and he argues that we can rise up to an imperfect knowledge of the nature of reality. ‘I am so bold as to believe that we h…Read more
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10Leibniz, Whitehead, and the metaphysics of causationPalgrave-Macmillan. 2009.This book introduces the reader to Whitehead’s complex and often misunderstood metaphysics by showing that it deals with questions about the nature of causation originally raised by the philosophy of Leibniz. Whitehead’s philosophy is an attempt at rehabilitating Leibniz’s theory of monads by recasting it in terms of novel ontological categories
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25Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality (Process Thought, Volume 14)Heusenstamm Bei Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. 2007.PROCESS THOUGHT Edited by Nicholas Rescher • Johanna Seibt • Michel Weber Advisory Board Mark Bickhard • Jaime Nubiola • Roberto Poli Volume 14 ...
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17Russell e il problema delle relazioni nella filosofia di BradleyRivista di Filosofia 90 (3): 391-416. 1999.
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50Materialist vs. Panexperientialist PhysicalismProcess Studies 39 (2): 264-284. 2010.This paper provides a brief critique of Jaegwon Kim’s evaluation of the achievements of materialist physicalism and then goes on to examine the case for panpsychism and the main objection that has been raised against it, i.e., the composition problem. The object of this examination is to lay bare the fundamental assumptions underlying both the main argument in support of the theory and the objection against it. Whitehead’s panexperientialism has a fair claim to be regarded as the most elaborate …Read more
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54Why did Bradley matter to Whitehead?Bradley Studies 10 (1-2): 15-32. 2004.Notwithstanding these and many other differences, in Process and Reality Whitehead recognises his debt towards Bradley. He emphasises the importance of the doctrine of feeling and goes so far as to qualify his whole cosmological system as an approximation to Bradley
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104Kant, Spinoza, and the Metaphysics of the Ontological ProofMetaphysica 11 (1): 17-37. 2010.This paper provides an interpretation and evaluation of Spinoza's highly original version of the ontological proof in terms of the concept of substance instead of the concept of perfection in the first book of his Ethics. Taking the lead from Kant's critique of ontological arguments in the Critique of Pure Reason, the paper explores the underlying ontological and epistemological presuppositions of Spinoza's proof. The main topics of consideration are the nature of Spinoza's definitions, the …Read more
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33The Importance of Subjectivity: Selected Essays in Metaphysics and Ethics, by Timothy L. S. Sprigge, edited by Leemon B. McHenry (review)Mind 120 (479): 906-910. 2011.
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60Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel (review)Process Studies 43 (1): 111-114. 2014.