Physics and Whitehead : quantum, process, and experience / edited by Timothy E. Eastman and Hank Keeton.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and index.

Introduction to process thought / Philip Clayton -- Duality without dualism / Timothy E. Eastman -- Whitehead as mathematical physicist / Hank Keeton -- Evidence for process in the physical world / John A. Jungerman -- Constraints on the origin of coherence in far-from-equilibrium chemical systems / Joseph E. Earley Sr. -- Whitehead's philosophy and the collapse of quantum states / Shimon Malin -- A historical reality that includes big bang, free will, and elementary particles / Geoffrey F. Chew -- Whiteheadian process and quantum theory / Henry P. Stapp -- The primacy of asymmetry over symmetry in physics / Joe Rosen -- Spacetime and becoming: overcoming the contradiction between special relativity and the passage of time / Niles Viggo Hansen -- The individuality of a quantum event: whitehead's epochal theory of time and Bohr's framework or complementarity / Yutaka Tanaka -- Physical process and physical law / David Ritz Finkelstein -- Whitehead's process philosophy as scientific metaphysics / Franz G. Riffert -- Whitehead and the quantum experience / Jorge Luis Nobo.

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Annotation Featuring discussions and dialogue by prominent scientists and philosophers, this book explores the rich interface of contemporary physics and Whitehead-inspired process thought. The contributors share the conviction that quantum physics not only corroborates many of Whitehead's philosophical theses, but is also illuminated by them. Thus, though differing in perspective or emphasis, the contributions by Geoffrey Chew, David Finkelstein, Henry Stapp and other scientists conceptually dovetail with those of Philip Clayton, Jorge Luis Nobo, Yutaka Tanaka and other process philosophers.

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