A Niche for Subjectivity: Emergence and Process according to S. Alexander and A. N. Whitehead

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  • Maria Regina Brioschi Università degli Studi di Milano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2239-5474/3270

Parole chiave:

Whitehead, Alexander, British Emergentism, Emergence, Time, Subjectivity, Superject, Process Philosophy, Evolution, Novelty

Abstract

Why an emergentist account of subjectivity? On the one hand, emergentism provides a new paradigm to rethink subjectivity beyond any dualism. At the same time, the issue of subjectivity puts a strain on emergentism itself, and pushes it beyond its limits. To show it, in the present paper I address a fundamental question: How can we describe subjectivity from an emergentist perspective? To answer, I will tackle Samuel Alexander’s and Alfred North Whitehead’s emergentist accounts of subjectivity. Alexander locates subjectivity into a consistent emergentist framework, but his model of subjectivity remains grounded in the classical interpretation of subjectivity as mind. Whitehead gives a more innovative model of subjectivity, which implies a radical revision of its temporality and connection to the world, but this leads him beyond emergentism as a whole.

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2013-11-01

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Metafisica trascendentale