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Analytical Critiques of Whitehead's Metaphysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2016

LEEMON B. MCHENRY  and
GEORGE W. SHIELDS
LEEMON B. MCHENRY
Affiliation:
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE leemon.mchenry@csun.edu
GEORGE W. SHIELDS
Affiliation:
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE george.shields@kysu.edu
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Abstract:

Analytic philosophers have criticized A. N. Whitehead's metaphysics for being obscure, yet several such philosophers have espoused positions in metaphysics and philosophy of mind that were advanced by Whitehead in the 1920s. In this paper, we evaluate the merits and demerits of these criticisms by Bertrand Russell, W. V. Quine, Karl Popper, and others and then demonstrate the affinities and contrasts in the positions advanced by Galen Strawson, David Chalmers, Thomas Nagel, and Whitehead regarding so-called ‘analytic panexperientialism’.

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analytical panexperientialismevent ontologymetaphysicspanpsychismphilosophy of mind
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Journal of the American Philosophical Association , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , Fall 2016 , pp. 483 - 503
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Copyright © American Philosophical Association 2016 

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