Why read Process and Reality?

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One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead's influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.

Whitehead's master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known…

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1 author picked Process and Reality as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Brian Thomas Swimme

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I am recommending Alfred North Whitehead's magnum opus because, in common with a number of other philosophers, I have come to the conclusion that Whitehead is the most important philosophical cosmologist of the last four hundred years.

For the most part, American philosophy works with the assumption that the universe is meaningless. This conclusion follows from taking Newtonian science as the ultimate truth of the large-scale universe. But this depressing view of things needs to be rejected now that we have discovered quantum physics, relativity, and complexity science, all of which go beyond the view of Newtonian mechanics.

Whitehead, deeply…

From Brian's list on The best science books on the universe with a spiritual inclination.