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    Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson May 5
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    I'm rereading this brilliant book, published almost exactly a hundred years ago (June 1920). Science and philosophy still haven't fully learned what this book has to teach us. @Alf_N_Whitehead The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectureshttps://www.cambridge.org/core/books/concept-of-nature/25B361C16417842783605069C21AD1F6#.XrG5yxijQYI.twitter …

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      2. AtaraxJim‏ @AtaraxJim May 5
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        Replying to @evantthompson @Alf_N_Whitehead

        Say more?

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      3. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson May 5
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        Replying to @AtaraxJim @Alf_N_Whitehead

        1/2 It dismantles the modern "bifurcation of nature" into an underlying causal order and an apparent perceptual order, replaces it with one nature evident in the character of perceptual knowledge,

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      2. Paul R‏ @PaulR55475605 May 6
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        I should also recommend David Bohm's 'Wholeness and the Implicate Order'-- it's basically Whiteheadian; process metaphysics and physics.

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      3. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson May 6
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        Replying to @PaulR55475605 @Alf_N_Whitehead

        I had the good fortune to meet Bohm once (and witness a dinner-time philosophical debate between him and Varela). I remember his expressing his great admiration for Whitehead, and saying he thought Whitehead was much more important than Wittgenstein or Heiddeger

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      2. Hatted Learner‏ @AlternateHerd May 5
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        Also started reading it last week. Have you tried to metabolize Process and Reality yet?

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      3. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson May 5
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        Replying to @AlternateHerd @Alf_N_Whitehead

        I had a go at it years ago, when I was a grad student, and will look at it again. I also just reread Science and the Modern World. It's his writings on philosophy of science and philosophy of nature I like the most.

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      1. ☿ Footnotes2Plato ☼☽‏ @ThouArtThat May 5
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        Agreed.https://footnotes2plato.com/2011/06/08/beyond-the-bifurcation-of-nature/ …

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      1. AtaraxJim‏ @AtaraxJim May 5
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        Anyway, in first year I took it out from Koerners upon recommendation and didn’t get it. At all. True story. Probably would do better if I tried today!

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      1. mandy szostek‏ @MandySzostek May 5
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        I looked it up and found the ebook for free on Project Gutenberg~ I haven't read it at all...it's a greeat recommend https://archives.library.illinois.edu/erec/University%20Archives/1515022/OriginalFiles/LITERATURE/WHITEHEAD/Concept%20of%20Nature%20Whitehead.pdf … thank you

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      2. juan ignacio lopez‏ @ironmann66 May 6
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        The other day when we were discussing about Budhism exceptionalism, which I defend and you denied, you mentioned Leibniz and Whitehead as examples of my wrong views. But Whitehead process philosophy has several points of agreement with Budhism.

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      3. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson May 6
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        Replying to @ironmann66 @Alf_N_Whitehead

        Yes, but I was making a different point about intrinsic natures vis-a-vis relationality. Furthermore, point of agreement don't suffice to justify Buddhist exceptionalism; after all, L and W have many more points of agreement with Christian philosophy (both were Christians!).

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