http://c-p-n-s.org/discussion Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:58:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Download here: Ultraquantum Relativity Comments welcome. -------------- Dear Michael, An update. The path is getting clearer, so I am traveling faster; but it can still peter out. What on earth did Peter do to deserve this verb? I could not resist coining merology to indicate indebtedness to and departure from the mereology of Lukasiewicz, and to ... http://c-p-n-s.org/discussion/?p=54 Download here: Cell Theory of Nature Comments welcome-- http://c-p-n-s.org/discussion/?p=53 Download MS Word Version of Paper Please do not circulate outside group (until published, Spr 2009) Physical Emergence and Process Ontology William M. Kallfelz Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPaS), Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Submitted to: World Futures Journal, special issue on process thought and natural science Special editors: Franz ... http://c-p-n-s.org/discussion/?p=43 UPDATED AND CORRECTED - 8/30/08 In his latest post, Henry writes: "Mike’s position has been that W’s full scheme does entail an absolute serial order. My position is that W’s words do not entail such an absolute serial order of the coming into being of the occasions (or of their initiation and ... http://c-p-n-s.org/discussion/?p=32 The issue here is whether Whitehead’s theory of nature, particularly as described in Process and Reality (PR), entails the existence of a universal/absolute/objective linear ordering in which all occasions (or at least their initiation and termination “dates”) can be placed. Nobo’s theory contains such an ordering (supersessional time), and one ... http://c-p-n-s.org/discussion/?p=31 Stapp’s Comments of 7/30/08 on the first part of Epperson’s: Whitehead’s Theory of Extension as it Pertains to Henry’s Question: Part 2 Dear Mike, Many thanks for sending your more concise attachment, which focuses on the particular passages in PR that you believe lead to the logical conclusion ... http://c-p-n-s.org/discussion/?p=41 Some References for the "Quantum Praxiology" project in addition to books by CPNS Research Fellows Books Bedau, Mark and Paul Humphreys, eds., 2008. Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science. Cambridge: MIT Press. Bub, Jeffrey. 1997. Interpreting the Quantum World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. d'Espagnat, Bernard, 2006. On Physics and Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Flanagan, Owen, ... http://c-p-n-s.org/discussion/?p=30 Hi everyone-- In his 7/28 post, Henry makes a great point here re: my last post, and it brought up what might be an important question:  Could PNC taken as an a priori metaphysical first principle (implied by Whitehead's desideratum of logical coherence), writ large and within the context of the ... http://c-p-n-s.org/discussion/?p=29 wmes-passages-on-objectification-and-creativity One and all: I am attaching a file with selected passages from my Whitehead's Metaphysics of Extension and Solidarity. I will add a second file in a few days with passages having more to do with the theory of metaphysical extension. I hope these passages will make my meaning clearer and ... http://c-p-n-s.org/discussion/?p=27 In Jorge's Reply to Henry's comment on the issue of absolute ordering, Jorge makes an important point: ...There is an objective well-ordered series of alpha and omega dates that can be read from the well-ordered causal objectifications found within the regional standpoint of every occasion. That follows from the logic of ... http://c-p-n-s.org/discussion/?p=24