Whitehead's Categoreal Scheme and Other Papers

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. An Approximative Logical Structure for Whitehead’s Categoreal Scheme

   • R. M. Martin

   Pages 1-26

3. On Hartshorne’s Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method

   • R. M. Martin

   Pages 27-42

4. On the Whiteheadian God

   • R. M. Martin

   Pages 43-59

5. On Coordinate Divisions in the Theory of Extensive Connection

   • R. M. Martin

   Pages 60-65

6. On Abstractive Hierarchies

   • R. M. Martin

   Pages 66-75

7. Steps Towards a Pragmatic Protogeometry

   • R. M. Martin

   Pages 76-88

8. On Mathematics and the Good

   • R. M. Martin

   Pages 89-108

9. On the Logical Structure of the Ontological Argument

   • R. M. Martin

   Pages 109-121

10. On Bocheński’s Logic of Religious Discourse

    • R. M. Martin

    Pages 122-142

11. On Gurwitsch’s Theory of Intentionality

    • R. M. Martin

    Pages 143-152

The philosophical papers comprising this volume range from process metaphysics and theology, through the phenomenological study of intentionality, to the foundations of geometry and of the system of real numbers. New light, it is thought, is shed on all these topics, some of them being of the highest interest and under intensive investigation in contemporary philosophical discussion. Metaphysi­ cians, process theologians, semanticists, theorists of knowledge, phenomenologists, and philosophers of mathematics will thus find in this book, it is hoped, helpful materials and methods. The categoreal scheme of Whitehead's Process and Reality is discussed rather fully from a logical point of view in the first paper [I] in the light of the author's previous work on the logico-metaphysical theory of events. The clarification that results is thought to provide a new depth and precision to the problem of interpreting one of the most difficult books in the recent history of metaphysics and cosmol­ ogy. A detailed examination of some aspects of Hartshorne's recent Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method is given in II. This book is perhaps the most significant work on process philosophy since Process and Reality itself, and its logical underpinnings thus merit a full critical discussion.

• Aron Gurwitsch
• discourse
• event
• god
• history
• intention
• interpret
• knowledge
• mathematics
• metaphysics
• philosophy
• physics
• semantic
• structure
• theology

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