PHIL 4600 Senior Seminar in Process Philosophy

This course consists of an historical survey of process philosophy.  By "process philosophy" is meant those philosophical positions in which change, movement, temporality, and/or dialectics feature prominently.  Readings will include selections from the following philosophical authors:  Heraclitus, Plato, Leibniz, Hegel, Marx, James, Bergson, and Whitehead.  The purpose of the course will be to examine the way in which process thought seeks to answer perennial philosophical dilemmas:  the relationship between the one and the many, the relationship between the individual and society, the relationship between permanence and change, the nature of temporality, the debate between modernism and postmodernism, etc.  We will also use the process view to engage contemporary issues in environmental science, medicine, physics, psychology, and social-political theory.

                        

                                                                                           

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