72 research outputs found
Esperienza ed evento della verità. Pratica filosofica e astrazione scientifica nel pensiero di A.N. Whitehead
No full textThis article analyzes the relationship between philosophy, experience and event in A.N. Whitehead’s thought. From the critics of the concept of object, the author retraces and describes the peculiar “abstract-concrete dialectic”, at the center of the researches concerning the perceptual experience.
Furthermore, according to Whitehead’s later works, she demonstrates how the philosophical practice is different from all other kinds of science, although it requires science itself because of the co-implication of object and event, abstraction and recognition
Creativity Between Logic and Cosmology: Peirce’s Fundamental Abduction
No full textThe aim of the present paper is to explore the connection between Peirce’s theory of abduction and his cosmology, showing how his metaphysical and cosmological conceptions are required by his logical theory of abduction.
Indeed, generally speaking many critical studies have tackled the topic of abduction, while the reception of Peirce’s cosmology is definitely controversial among his scholars. For this reason, the present work opens by asking whether abduction is fully understandable and acceptable without any reference to Peirce’s metaphysics, and in particular without any implication of his cosmology. Thus, this hypothesis of inquiry is assumed throughout the paper in order to reach a deeper understanding of what creativity is and what kind of philosophy can actually sustain and explain it. As a conclusion, I explain how this close connection between logic and metaphysics, abduction and cosmology, which only guarantees the real possibility of a genuine creativity, finds its reason in Peirce’s key-idea of Synechism
The Problem of Novelty in C.S. Peirce’s and A.N. Whitehead’s Thought
No full textThe aim of the present paper is to give an account of both Peirce's and Whitehead's conceptions of novelty, from a phenomenological point of view. Therefore, the paper is divided into three parts. In the first I introduce the topic of novelty and its connections with both the authors, in the second I analyze Peirce's inquiry on novelty and in the third I explain Whitehead's perspective on it. To conclude, I compare their ideas
How Novelty Arises from Fields of Experience: A Comparison Between W. James and A.N. Whitehead
No full textThe relationship between James and Whitehead has been underlined from the very outset by the critical scholarship on Whitehead, as is testified by the presence of articles that appeared before the author’s death. By dissociating myself from the radical interpretation that frames Whitehead’s speculative opus as a systematization of James’s ide- as, I survey that confrontation which has been advanced in the last years (Weber 2002, 2003, 2011, Sinclair 2009) in order to provide further contribution, by tackle the problem of novelty. Precisely, I concentrate on those instances, especially the methodological ones, which are not simply akin, but rather properly shared by the authors. In other words, I focus on those grounding ideas from which they endorse a pluralistic universe, conceived in connection with the problem of novelty. Properly, 1) I analyze the way Whitehead refers to James in his books; 2) I compare the roles they acknowledge to reason, in the nexus with the concept of experience; 3) I show the importance both authors ascribe to the problem of novelty, the main topic involved in their efforts to build up new cosmologies
Filosofia tra senso comune e scienza: Whitehead e il nuovo realismo
No full textIl presente intervento intende connettere il pensiero di Alfred North Whitehead ad alcune istanze
e tendenze del dibattito contemporaneo, facendo emergere sotto questo profilo quale sia la sua
proposta filosofica, nella piena originalità
Between Continuity and Atomism
No full textMaria Regina Brioschi contrasts Whitehead’s cosmology with Peirce’s cosmology to show how atomism and continuity are intermixed in their visions of the world. In particular, in Whitehead’s mature philosophy continuity and extension arise from a fundamentally non-continuous aggregation of actual entities, while in his earlier work extension still had “a unique preeminence” – a progression clearly related to Whitehead’s interest in the foundations of physics. As process in itself seems to be an intricate combination of the elements of atomicity and continuity, this article reaches to the very core of the metaphysics of process
Surprise, Event and the Problem of Novelty: A Comparison Between C.S. Peirce and A.N. Whitehead
No full textThis paper compares the concept of event in C.S. Peirce's and A.N. Whitehead's philosophical perspectives. While several critical studies have compared these two authors from a cosmological-metaphysical standpoint, this article considers especially the phenomenological-experiential perspective. To provide a better comprehension of the issues involved in the concept of event, I related it to the likelihood of the happening of novelty. In particular, I focuse on Peirce's category the Second and considers his description of experience as a series of surprises and shocks, and analyze the concept of event in Whitehead, with special reference to The Concept of Nature. To conclude, I try to point out in which way these analyses could help us in the accurate understanding of their cosmologies
A Niche for Subjectivity: Emergence and Process according to S. Alexander and A. N. Whitehead
No full textPerché un articolo sulla soggettività emergente? Se da una parte l’emergentismo offre un nuovo paradigma per pensare la soggettività oltre ogni dualismo, dall’altra il tema della soggettività mette in questione lo stesso emergentismo. Così, in generale, il presente articolo si interroga su cosa sia una soggettività emergente, e come si costituisca, procedendo in questa interrogazione mediante il pensiero di Samuel Alexander e Alfred North Whitehead. Il primo infatti presenta un coerente sistema emergentista, in cui la soggettività trova il suo posto, pur rimanendo ancorato ad un’interpretazione classica di soggettività, concepita come mente. Il secondo invece offre un modello più innovativo di soggettività, che implica una revisione radicale della sua temporalità e «mondanità», e che lo porta in ultima analisi al di là di una posizione emergentista in senso stretto
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