The Cosmology of A.N. Whitehead

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At a time when scientific thought had come to dominate perceptions of reality, Whitehead argued that our bodily understanding of —nature, registered in poetry, art, religion, and ethics— form equally valid pictures of reality. He draws our attention to the dynamic, interconnected network of processes that make up individual experience. Adventures of Ideas offers a detailed history of humanity’s endeavours to understand the nature of things. In essence, Whitehead explores how ideas shape civilization. In Science and the Modern World he investigates one such idea, that of ‘scientific materialism’ and how it has come to organize our modern understanding of the world. Whitehead scrutinizes the authority of science in the world because he believed philosophy is ‘the architect of the buildings of the spirit’ reasoning that the two must be kept in conversation in order to develop a holistic ‘philosophy of organism’.