Postmodern philosophy is frequently brushed aside as unintelligible, self-contradictory, and as a passing fad without contribution to make to the issues confronted by way of philosophers in our time. whereas this characterization can be precise of the kind of philosophy classified postmodern within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, David Ray Griffin argues that Alfred North Whitehead had formulated a extensively diverse kind of postmodern philosophy to which those criticisms don't follow. Griffin indicates the facility of Whitehead’s philosophy in facing a number of modern issues—the mind-body relation, ecological ethics, fact as correspondence, the relation of time in physics to the (irreversible) time of our lives, and the truth of ethical norms. He additionally defends a particular size of Whitehead’s postmodernism, his theism, opposed to a variety of criticisms, together with the cost that it really is incompatible with relativity theory.

“Those who're strange with Griffin’s fresh books might be thankful for this transparent, readable, and thorough creation to Whitehead’s philosophy as optimistic (rather than deconstructive) and postmodern. besides the fact that, those people who are good versed in Griffin’s past books also will take advantage of his extended use of the speculation of hard-core good judgment, his safety of theological ethics, and his special exam of Whitehead’s reformed subjectivist precept. in brief, this is often a very good ebook that may be learn with revenue via philosophers and theologians generally.” — Daniel A. Dombrowski, writer of Rawls and faith: The Case for Political Liberalism

“No one operating within the sector of approach notion should want to omit this significant new ebook by means of David Ray Griffin.” — Donald W. Sherburne, coeditor of Whitehead’s Philosophy: issues of Connection

David Ray Griffin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of faith on the Claremont tuition of Theology and Claremont Graduate collage in California. His many books comprise faith and medical Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts, additionally released via SUNY Press.