Funkce rozumu a Proces a realita

• Authors: Kaplicky Martin

Title variants

EN

FUNCTION OF REASON AND PROCESS AND REALITY

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This text concentrates on the investigation of relations of two books of Alfred North Whitehead: Process and Reality and Function of Reason, both being published in the same year 1929. Author of the text first exhibits Whitehead's conception of method of speculative philosophy as it is presented on the initial pages of Process and Reality. He points out at Whitehead's rejection of mathematical axiomatic method and position of rigid empiricism as appropriate methods of construction of philosophical scheme and shows Whitehead's own philosophical method: method of descriptive generalization, which can be shortly summed up as imaginative construction of basic speculative scheme which is based on former empirical observations and is subsequently tested by new empirical observations. It is shown that Whitehead does not presents in Process and Reality the process of imaginative construction of his philosophy. One phase of Whitehead's method of descriptive generalization is therefore missing in Process and Reality. It is argued that this missing phase of descriptive generalization can be found in Function of Reason.

Keywords

EN

FUNCTION OF REASON; PROCESS AND REALITY; SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY; WHITEHEAD ALFRED NORTH; WHITEHEAD ALFRED NORTH - PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teorie vědy (Theory of Science)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 235-251
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kaplicky Martin

• Martin Kaplicky, Katedra estetiky, Filozoficka fakulta Univerzity Karlovy v Praze, Celetna 20, 11642 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA094926