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Physics and Whitehead : Quantum, Process, and Experience.
Title:
Physics and Whitehead : Quantum, Process, and Experience.
Author:
Eastman, Timothy E.
ISBN:
9780791485996
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (343 pages)
Series:
SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought
Contents:
Physics and Whitehead -- Contents -- Preface -- Series Introduction -- Part I. Physics and Whitehead -- 1. Introduction to Process Thought by Philip Clayton -- 2. Duality Without Dualism by Timothy E. Eastman -- 3. Whitehead as Mathematical Physicist by Hank Keeton -- 4. Evidence for Process in the Physical World by John A. Jungerman -- 5. Dialogue for Part I -- Part II: Order and Emergence -- 6. Constraints on the Origin of Coherence in Far-from-Equilibrium Chemical Systems by Joseph E. Earley Sr. -- 7. Whitehead's Philosophy and the Collapse of Quantum States by Shimon Malin -- 8. A Historical Reality That Includes Big Bang, Free Will, and Elementary Particles by Geoffrey F. Chew -- 9. Whiteheadian Process and Quantum Theory by Henry P. Stapp -- 10. Dialogue for Part II -- Part III: Fundamental Processes -- 11. The Primacy of Asymmetry over Symmetry in Physics by Joe Rosen -- 12. Spacetime and Becoming: Overcoming the Contradiction Between Special Relativity and the Passage of Time by Niels Viggo Hansen -- 13. The Individuality of a Quantum Event: Whitehead's Epochal Theory of Time and Bohr's Framework of Complementarity by Yutaka Tanaka -- 14. Physical Process and Physical Law by David Ritz Finkelstein -- 15. Dialogue for Part III -- Part IV: Metaphysics -- 16. Whitehead's Process Philosophy as Scientific Metaphysics by Franz G. Riffert -- 17. Whitehead and the Quantum Experience by Jorge Luis Nobo -- 18. Dialogue for Part IV -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Note on Supporting Center -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern Thought.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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