num_pages: 200
description: Can experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconciled with a method of systematic cosmological speculation? Didier Debaises reading of Process and Reality shows clearly what a philosophy that makes this possible looks like how it works and what is at stake. He focuses in on Whiteheads attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience: everything enjoyed and perceived willed or thought. In this way Debaise illustrates how Whiteheads philosophy gives us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.
language: English
title: Speculative Empiricism: Revisiting Whitehead
publisher: Edinburgh University Press