Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics has provided tools to understand Whitehead secundum Whitehead. We now seek to bring him in dialogue with James. It will be a pragmatic dialogue looking for two types of synergy: to establish the relevance of a Jamesian background to read Whitehead, and to adumbrate how Whitehead can help us understand the stakes of James's works. After one hundred years of scholarship, it appears that James's legacy has mainly been studied from the perspective of his own blend of pragmatism and that this blend has moreover chiefly been put into dialogue with Peirce and analytic philosophy at large. This double interpretational shift has allowed James to keep a fair amount of visibility on the academic scene but, over the years, it has significantly obliterated his vision. It is time to rediscover James from the perspective of his radical empiricism.

 

About the Author

Michel Weber obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He is the director of the Centre for philosophical practice “Chromatiques whiteheadiennes” (Brussels). In 2008–2009, he is visiting Professor at the New Bulgarian University (Sofia), Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology & Department of Philosophy and Sociology. He has published, e.g., La dialectique de l’intuition chez A. N. Whitehead (Ontos Verlag, 2005), Whitehead’s Pancreativism (Ontos Verlag, 2006), L’épreuve de la philosophie (Éditions Chromatika, 2008) and Éduquer (à) l’anarchie (Éditions Chromatika, 2008).
ISBN: 978-3-86838-103-0
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