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Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.

This book examines from different perspectives the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature.

In these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead's first year of philosophy lectures. Also included in this volume is the text of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, allowing for a clearer understanding of Whitehead's plans and goals for his first philosophy lectures.

In these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead's first year of philosophy lectures. Also included in this volume is the text of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, allowing for a clearer understanding of Whitehead's plans and goals for his first philosophy lectures.

This second volume in the critical edition reproduces more than 170 lectures delivered by Alfred North Whitehead at Harvard during his second and third years.

It has been said that new discoveries and developments in the human, social, and natural sciences hang "in the air" (Bowler, 1983, 2008) prior to their consummation. While neo-Darwinist biology has been powerfully served by its mechanistic metaphysic and a reductionist methodology in which living organisms are considered machines, many of the chapters in this volume place this paradigm into question. Pairing scientists and philosophers togethe...

Since its founding in 1950, the Metaphysical Society of America has remained a pluralistic community dedicated to rigorous philosophical inquiry into the most basic metaphysical questions. At each year's conference, the presidential address offers original insights into metaphysical questions. Both the insights and the questions are as perennial as they are relevant to contemporary philosophers. This volume collects eighteen of the finest repr...

Although nearly all environmental philosophies have long since rejected modernity's conception of individuals as isolated and independent substances, few have replaced this worldview with an alternative that is adequate to the organic, processive world in which we find ourselves. In this context, Brian G. Henning argues that the often overlooked work of Alfred North Whitehead has the potential to make a significant contribution to environmenta...

Despite there being deep lines of convergence between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and other classical American philosophers, it remains an open question whether Whitehead is a pragmatist, and conversation between pragmatists and Whitehead scholars have been limited. Indeed, it is difficult to find an anthology of classical American philosophy that includes Whitehead's writings. These cam...

It has been said that new discoveries and developments in the human, social, and natural sciences hang "in the air" (Bowler, 1983, 2008) prior to their consummation. While neo-Darwinist biology has been powerfully served by its mechanistic metaphysic and

Examining and developing a conception of individuality that is equally at home with the microscopic world of subatomic events and the macroscopic world of ecosystems, this book emphasizes the well-being of wholes, while not losing sight of the importance of the centers of value that constitute these wholes.