Speculative Empiricism: Revisiting Whitehead

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Didier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead's 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, giving us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation. Intro Translator's Note Preface 1 Introduction Part I Speculative Philosophy: Method and Function 2 What is Speculative Philosophy? 3 Creativity as Ultimate Principle 4 Actualising Creativity Part II The Speculative Approach to Existence: Process and Individuation 5 What is a Process of Individuation? 6 What is the Subject? 7 Realisation of Self and Power 8 Pure Potentiality and Actuality 9 Temporal Dimensions of Actual Entities Part III Experiences and Societies: Thinking Nature 10 A Universe of Societies 11 The Mode of Existence of Societies12 Nature and Societies 13 Conclusion: What is Speculative Empiricism?