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ABSTRACTIZARE ȘI FILOSOFIE LA A.N. WHITEHEAD
Abstraction and Philosophy in A.N. Whitehead

Author(s): Claudiu Baciu
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: abstraction; modern science; causality; motion; metaphysics;

Summary/Abstract: Although Whitehead acknowledges the importance of abstraction in philosophy, he criticizes modern philosophy's bias to consider scientific abstraction as reality itself. This article discusses some of Whitehead's views regarding aspects of the evolution of modern science that influenced modern philosophy

  • Issue Year: LXVII/2020
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 537-546
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian, Moldavian