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With the increase of natural disasters, droughts, and superstorms, it's clear that climate change isn't coming--it's here. The ecological crisis of climate change and how we handle it is the challenge of this century. Though policy changes or technological advances may help, they're not enough. We are in need of new ways of thinking and acting; new ways of understanding our relationship to the world. This book assesses the challenges of climate change through an interdisciplinary study, examining the basic scientific, political, economic, and moral dimensions through a framework of philosophical ethics.--

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE FOUR-FOLD ART OF AVOIDING QUESTIONS /Paul Weiss -- THE PROBLEM OF THE ANALOGY OF BEING /George Klubertanz -- THE SELF AS SOURCE OF MEANING IN METAPHYSICS /W. Norris Clarke -- REALITY AND METAPHYSICS /Joseph Owens -- MERLEAU-PONTY AND THE RENEWAL OF ONTOLOGY /Marjorie Grene -- METAPHYSICS, CRITIQUE, AND UTOPIA /Richard J. Bernstein -- THE QUESTION OF BEING /Robert Sokolowski -- IS METAPHYSICS POSSIBLE? /Stanley Rosen -- THE SCIENCE WE ARE SEEKING /Ralph McInerny -- THE PRACTICALITY OF METAPHYSICS /Frederick Ferré -- TWO FACES OF SCIENCE /Ernan McMullin -- ARE CATEGORIES INVENTED OR DISCOVERED? A RESPONSE TO FOUCAULT /Jorge J. E. Gracia -- TEXTUALITY, REALITY, AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE /Nicholas Rescher -- METAPHYSICS AND LANGUAGE /John Herman Randall -- BEING, IMMEDIACY, AND ARTICULATION /John E. Smith -- STRIVING TO SPEAK IN A HUMAN VOICE: A PEIRCEAN CONTRIBUTION TO METAPHYSICAL DISCOURSE /Vincent Colapietro -- THE METAPHYSICS OF THE GOOD /Ivor Leclerc -- PERISHABLE GOODS /George Allan -- THE GENEROSITY OF THE GOOD /Joseph Grange -- THE LEGACY AND FUTURE /Robert C. Neville -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES OF THE METAPHYSICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 1952–2010 /Brian G. Henning and David Kovacs -- INDEX /Brian G. Henning and David Kovacs -- VIBS /Brian G. Henning and David Kovacs.

The first scholarly edition of critically edited, previously unpublished notes of Whitehead's philosophy lectures from 1925 to 1927Reproduces more than 170 lectures delivered by Alfred North Whitehead during his 2nd and 3rd years at Harvard Provides a window into the development of Whitehead's thought in the lead up to the publication of his most significant work, Process and RealityReproduces the drawings Whitehead created on the board in class providing new insights into his thinking – invaluable because his published works include no diagramsFor the first time, Whitehead's readers will be able to see the development of his philosophy during the crucial period between the publication of Science and the Modern World and his delivery of the Gifford lectures that would become Process and Reality, as he tests his theories in a classroom setting. These student notes provide the long-missing window into critical developments in Whitehead's thinking during this time. They challenge longstanding speculations about when exactly Whitehead developed some of his most famous metaphysical concepts, and how those concepts are to be properly interpreted against the wider backdrop of his life and thought.Also included is a transcript of the only known lecture Whitehead delivered on the topic of ethics, two mid-year exams given to his students and nearly 2,000 footnotes that provide additional context for the lectures and alternative student accounts of key passages

Preliminary Material -- WHITEHEAD'S OTHER COPERNICAN TURN /Roland Faber and Brian G. Henning -- TOWARD A METAPHYSICS OF EXPRESSION /Vincent Colapietro -- RENEWING SPECULATION: THE SYSTEMATIC AIM OF WHITEHEAD'S PHILOSOPHIC COSMOLOGY /Christoph Kann -- BEYOND METAPHYSICS?—A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TO WHITEHEAD'S SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY /Dennis Soelch -- CITING THE PARADOX: PROBING THE SYSTEMATIZATION OF WHITEHEAD AS PHILOSOPHER SUBJECT /Deena Lin -- BEFORE METAPHYSICS: MODES OF THOUGHT AS A PREQUEL TO WHITEHEAD'S "TRILOGY" /Clinton Combs -- IMMANENCE AND INCOMPLETENESS: WHITEHEAD'S LATE METAPHYSICS /Roland Faber -- THE ORGANISM OF FORMS IN LATER WHITEHEAD /Robert J. Valenza -- BEYOND DOGMATIC FINALITY: WHITEHEAD AND THE LAWS OF NATURE /Jeremy Dunham -- ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD'S RECEPTACLE /Joachim Klose -- CONTINGENCY AND WHITEHEAD'S METAPHYSICS OF EXPERIENCE /Helmut Maaßen -- THE WEB OF LIFE AND THE CONSTITUTION OF HUMAN IDENTITY: RETHINKING NATURE AS THE MAIN ISSUE OF WHITEHEAD'S LATE METAPHYSICS /Regine Kather -- RE-CENTERING PROCESS THOUGHT: RECOVERING BEAUTY IN A. N. WHITEHEAD'S LATE WORK /Brian G. Henning -- THE SELF-EVIDENCE OF CIVILIZATION /Stascha Rohmer -- FACT, VALUES, INDIVIDUALS, AND OTHERS: TOWARDS A METAPHYSICS OF VALUE /Michael Halewood -- SELF-ENJOYMENT AND CONCERN: ON WHITEHEAD AND LEVINAS /Steven Shaviro -- PROVOCATIVE EXPRESSION: TRANSITIONS IN AND FROM METAPHYSICS IN WHITEHEAD'S LATER WORK /Jude Jones -- THE DREAM OF SOLOMON /Isabella Palin -- WORKS CITED -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- VIBS.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- General introduction -- Editorial principles -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology for Alfred North Whitehead -- Published works of Alfred North Whitehead -- Introduction to The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924-1925 -- Emerson Hall lectures, Harvard Yard, 1924-1925 -- First semester -- Second semester -- Radcliffe College lectures, 1924-1925 -- First semester -- Second semester -- Whitehead Seminary, October 1924-1925 -- Metaphysics', delivered by Alfred North Whitehead -- Appendix Sample scans of original handwritten notes -- Index

Examines the significance of The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924–1925Responds to the question of whether the Harvard Lectures and The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead project change our understanding of the meaning or development of Whitehead's thoughtWritten by international experts on Whitehead – including Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Gary Herstein and Jude Jones – who address a range of different aspects of the scholarly implications of the LecturesThe first monograph responding to the Critical Edition: has the potential to establish the tone and influence the direction of subsequent workIncludes the text of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, recently gifted to the Critical EditionContributes towards setting scholarly conventions for how to cite and reference the volumes of the Critical EditionIn these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead's first year of philosophy lectures. Do these lectures challenge or confirm previous understandings of Whitehead's published works? What is revealed about the development of Whitehead's thought in the crucial period after London but before the publication of Science and the Modern World? What should we make of concepts and terms that were introduced in these lectures but were never incorporated into subsequent publications?Also included in this volume is the text of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, recently gifted to the Critical Edition of Whitehead, allowing for a clearer understanding of Whitehead's plans and goals for his first course of lectures in philosophy than has previously been possible