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... of the yeast and its Pasteur . Copyright © 1996 1996 Alfred North Whitehead Louis Pasteur lactic-acid fermentation scientific realism constructivism ...

... be complemented with an assessment of what we learn to focus on and of how we change our actions thanks to the perspectivism of Deleuze—in contrast to other forms of perspectivism (or indeed to other cosmologies). Inspired, however, by the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, Deleuze holds that each...

... impoverished view of “discourse,” including scientific discourse (descriptions of nature) as no more than “a modality (and achievement) of thinking.” 12 In contrast to the fiction of an all-seeing perspective, Alfred North Whitehead pointed the way toward an alternative mode of thinking about science...

... Plato and Aristotle were involved. As Alfred North Whitehead wrote, “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” If so, then Russian thought needs to be understood as an important part of the Western...

...) and Philosophy and Social Hope (47). As far as I know, Rorty did not write about Stengers or Haraway, nor did they or Latour write about Rorty. There is, however, a record of an event, just before Rorty's death, in which Haraway, Stengers, and Rorty all spoke at Stanford about Alfred North Whitehead...

... North Whitehead into the forefront of philosophy. Not only did many of Quine’s arguments and claims employ terms from logic (including quantifier, value of a variable, extensional, and the like), but a central claim of his philosophy was that logic—the new logic, as it was then— was of fundamental...

... to recognize the technohumanities raises the more general question of whether various intellectual capacities are adequately represented and integrated at our universities. According to Alfred North Whitehead, “the task COMMON KNOWLEDGE COMMON of a University is the creation...

.... For Latour, habit is a pervasive mode of existence. 5 This argument is also found in Charles Saunders Peirce, 6 and it might have been found in Rorty had he not traded early interest in Peirce (and Alfred North Whitehead) for the nominalism of Wilfrid Sellars and W. V. Quine. The principal difference...

... of philosophy at Harvard, that she was the only student to whom Alfred North Whitehead ever gave an A+ in his graduate seminar on metaphysics and that the précis of her dissertation—on the problem of nonbeing in Plato's Parmenides —was the only piece of graduate student work he kept in his files. 1...

... , and Latour Bruno . “ Redefining the Social Link: From Baboons to Humans .” Social Science Information 26 , no. 4 ( 1987 ): 783 – 802 . Whitehead Alfred North . The Concept of Nature . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1920 . Asked to write a piece in memory of Bruno Latour...

... always been perfectly happy to speak, like Alphonse de Candolle, of “plant soci- ology” or, like Alfred North Whitehead, of “stellar societies.”1 It should also be clear that I don’t take the expression “peace proposal” ironically. On the contrary, it’s for me crucial to imagine another...

... was epitomized in Rorty's youth by Alfred North Whitehead, to whom Rorty was drawn as a student and on whom he wrote both his MA and PhD theses. Rorty gradually abandoned Whitehead as a result of taking what he would famously dub the “linguistic turn” that became the calling card of postwar analytic philosophy...

... in the bottom of the Depression, with a dissertation on the problem of nonbeing in Plato’s Parmenides, written for Raphael Demos and Alfred North Whitehead; she married a fellow graduate student and returned to the South. My father’s salary...

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... included William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Iris Murdoch, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Marion, and Charles Taylor; the award is righty considered “the Nobel Prize in philosophy,” as Vattimo acknowledged with characteristic humility and wit in his opening lecture. Together, these lectures were collected...

... to rest. No effort less strenuous and transformative and dangerously disorienting would make even disagreement with an animist warrior possible. 37. See Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1925; New York: Macmillan, 1948). ...

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