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    Edinburgh University Press
    Publication date:
    25 October 2017
    01 July 2015
    ISBN:
    9781474400350
    9781474400343
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    • Subjects:
    Epistemology and Metaphysics, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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    Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a more adequate basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead's theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as W. V. Quine. In this way, McHenry defends the naturalized and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century.

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