Stubborn Fact and Creative Advance: An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead.

Theological Studies | September 1, 1995| | Copyright

These are critical times for Whiteheadian process thought. Will it turn out to have been merely a transient episode sustained primarily by a minority of theologians? Or are its best days still ahead of it, as David Griffin has recently prophesied? While most philosophers still ignore Whitehead, his supporters have found in his thought a safe harbor for metaphysics in an age dominated by science and antimetaphysical sentiment. To followers of Whitehead, no other philosophical system is capable of providing such a credible alternative to eliminative materialism on the one hand ...

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