Дискусия върху книгата на Веселин Петров „Процесуално-философски прочит на дилемата континуалност – дискретност“.
A Discussion on Veselin Petrov’s New Book A Process-Philosophical Reading of the Dilemma of Continuity vs. Discreteness

Summary/Abstract: The ground of the discussion between prof. Alexander Andonov and assoc. prof. Vesselin Petrov is the newly published into Bulgarian book Process philosophical reading of the dilemma continuity – discreteness (2012) by assoc. prof. Vesselin Petrov. Prof. Andonov raises some questions connected with the specific of philosophical knowledge and its differentiation from mathematical knowledge. He begins with Plato’s discovery of the method of cognition by which, according to Plato, all discoveries had been made in crafts and arts and takes it as basic philosophical method. Then he argues the views of Kant, according to which, the philosophical knowledge can’t construct concepts as mathematics can. Finally, he expresses Hegel’s views on the topic that philosophy has the method for developing the concepts. His main critique to the discussed book is that the author assoc. prof. Petrov has to explain how he takes into account the Hegel’s differentiation between the specific of both philosophical and mathematical knowledge. In the course of the discussion prof. Andonov defenses the thesis that Hegel’s philosophy is a philosophy of the future, reformatted in the light of Whitehead’s discovery of ontology of time. In his answer assoc. prof. Petrov gives his own explanation what will be the philosophy of the future stressing that process philosophy will be the philosophy of the futre. He also expresses his anticipation of a new form of process philosophy and in the light of these answers he reminds the aim and the tasks of his book in relation to prof. Andonov’s question about the specific of philosophical and mathematical knowledge. Finally, assoc. prof. Petrov reminds Whitehead’s differentiation between metaphysics and cosmology on the basis of which he points to the limitations of ontology of time that could be overcome in some new form of process philosophy.

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