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15ContentsIn Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson & David Ray Griffin (eds.), Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science, De Gruyter. 2016.
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13FrontmatterIn Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson & David Ray Griffin (eds.), Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science, De Gruyter. 2016.
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9IndexIn Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson & David Ray Griffin (eds.), Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science, De Gruyter. pp. 267-276. 2016.
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40Physics and speculative philosophy: potentiality in modern science (edited book)De Gruyter. 2016.Through both an historical and philosophical analysis of the concept of possibility, we show how including both potentiality and actuality as part of the real is both compatible with experience and contributes to solving key problems of fundamental process and emergence. The book is organized into four main sections that incorporate our routes to potentiality: (1) potentiality in modern science [history and philosophy; quantum physics and complexity]; (2) Relational Realism [ontological interpre…Read more
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12Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science (edited book)De Gruyter. 2016.Through both an historical and philosophical analysis of the concept of possibility, we show how including both potentiality and actuality as part of the real is both compatible with experience and contributes to solving key problems of fundamental process and emergence. The book is organized into four main sections that incorporate our routes to potentiality: potentiality in modern science [history and philosophy; quantum physics and complexity]; Relational Realism [ontological interpretation o…Read more
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19Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and ContextLexington Books. 2020.Untying the Gordian Knot shows how the fundamental notions of process, logic and relations, woven with triads of input-output-context, can be combined with quantum distinctions associated with actuality and potentiality, enabling the leveraging of many advances in philosophy and physics to unravel several long-standing philosophical problems.
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19Physics and Whitehead: Quantum, Process, and Experience (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2003.Featuring discussions and dialogue by prominent scientists and philosophers, this book explores the rich interface of contemporary physics and Whitehead-inspired process thought.
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8Cosmic AgnosticismProcess Studies 36 (2): 181-197. 2007.This paper surveys some scientific issues in physical cosmology and concludes that no current model in cosmology adequately meets all key observations. Scholars in process thought are making important contributions in both metaphysics and philosophical cosmology, independent of the outcome of debates in physical cosmology. Such scholars are advised to be very cautious when using hypotheses currently arising from contemporary cosmology.
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9Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (review)Process Studies 34 (2): 300-303. 2005.
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47Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (review)Process Studies 34 (2): 300-303. 2005.
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10Physics and RelativityIn Michel Weber (ed.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, De Gruyter. pp. 235-258. 2008.
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14Limitations, Approximations And RealityIn Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson & David Ray Griffin (eds.), Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science, De Gruyter. pp. 233-242. 2016.
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182Complementary frameworks of scientific inquiry: Hypothetico-deductive, hypothetico-inductive, and observational-inductiveWorld Futures 65 (1): 61-75. 2009.The 20th century philosophy of science began on a positivistic note. Its focal point was scientific explanation and the hypothetico-deductive (HD) framework of explanation was proposed as the standard of what is meant by “science.” HD framework, its inductive and statistical variants, and other logic-based approaches to modeling scientific explanation were developed long before the dawn of the information age. Since that time, the volume of observational data and power of high performance comput…Read more
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172Cosmic AgnosticismProcess Studies 36 (2): 181-197. 2007.This paper surveys some scientific issues in physical cosmology and concludes that no current model in cosmology adequately meets all key observations. Scholars in process thought are making important contributions in both metaphysics and philosophical cosmology, independent of the outcome of debates in physical cosmology. Such scholars are advised to be very cautious when using hypotheses currently arising from contemporary cosmology.
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100Our cosmos, from substance to processWorld Futures 64 (2). 2008.Philosophies of nature over the past three centuries have gone through three distinct phases, beginning with classical views and now evolving into a process view at the dawn of the 21st century. These phases derive from a complex weaving of two frameworks of physics since Newton's time [classical, modern] with two principal metaphysical frameworks[substance, event]. Problematic fin de sicle claims at the end of both the 19th and 20th centuries appear to have a common root in substance metaphysic…Read more