Just spent 2 yrs. slogging through Process and Reality. What's good in Whitehead is mostly borrowed from Bergson and James. What's innovative—his platonic realm of eternal objects, geometry like axioms, and deux ex machina God—not so hot.
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Whitehead takes from Bergson and James, but has many original insights and analyses that go much further, especially when he's interacting with science. I find this especially in The Concept of Nature, and Science and the Modern World.
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Isabelle is indeed fantastic. On a slight tangent: have you read Lorraine Daston's work?
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I know of her work but have never read it. What do you recommend?
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I’m just over 130 pages into “Waking, Dreaming, Being” and it’s exactly what I need right now. Very provocative and insightful.
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Glad you're enjoying it. Thanks for reading it.
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1/2 In discussing W's constructivist account of knowledge in Process and Reality, Isabelle Stengers notes a common critique of the so-called “hard problem” of consciousness:
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2/2 “If consciousness, conscious perception or human intentionality are required by any objective knowledge, then they are what objective knowledge presupposes and thus cannot objectify” (p. 98) A constructivist reading of Process and Reality, Theory, Culture & Society 24(4)
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This looks amazing, thank you
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