CONTENTS

PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

PART I

THE SPECULATIVE SCHEME A logical framework or conceptual map used to understand the nature of reality as a whole.

CHAPTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE
Abstract A summary or introduction to the section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
I. SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
II. THE CATEGORICAL SCHEME original: "Categoreal Scheme"; Whitehead’s specific list of fundamental principles and categories that form the basis of his philosophy. . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
III. SOME DERIVATIVE NOTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

PART II

DISCUSSIONS AND APPLICATIONS

Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
I. FACT AND FORM . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
II. THE EXTENSIVE CONTINUUM The general relational structure—such as space and time—that connects all physical events. . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
III. THE ORDER OF NATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
IV. ORGANISMS AND ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
V. LOCKE AND HUME . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
VI. FROM DESCARTES TO KANT . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
VII. THE SUBJECTIVIST PRINCIPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
VIII. SYMBOLIC REFERENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
IX. PROPOSITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
X. PROCESS . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

PART III

THE THEORY OF PREHENSION original: "Prehension"; the process by which an individual entity "grasps" or senses its environment and incorporates those experiences into itself.

Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
I. FEELINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
II. THE PRIMARY FEELINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
III. THE TRANSMISSION OF FEELINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
IV. PROPOSITIONS AND FEELINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
V. THE HIGHER PHASES OF EXPERIENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . 406