Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process PhilosophyRescher (philosophy, U. of Pittsburgh) offers a synoptic and compact introduction to the 20th-century American school of philosophy. After tracing the historical background from Heraclitus to Dewey, Whitehead, and Sheldon, he discusses the basic ideas, particulars, universals, the process philosophy of nature, persons, logic and epistemology, scientific inquiry, theology, and other dimensions. No subject index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. |


