1 hr 3 min

E39: We Don't Need No Stinking Badges - Whitehead on Laws of Nature The Dawdler's Philosophy

    • Philosophy

Metaphysical outlaws?  Does our universe operate according to some set or other of fixed, eternal rules?  Enforced by whom/what?  Could these "laws" themselves "evolve"?  This week the Dawdlers consider some lawlike generalizations from Alfred North Whitehead's book Adventures of Ideas where he presents a quadruple of suggestions for how "laws" might function metaphysically, and how various influential thinkers have developed this concept family historically.  
 

Metaphysical outlaws?  Does our universe operate according to some set or other of fixed, eternal rules?  Enforced by whom/what?  Could these "laws" themselves "evolve"?  This week the Dawdlers consider some lawlike generalizations from Alfred North Whitehead's book Adventures of Ideas where he presents a quadruple of suggestions for how "laws" might function metaphysically, and how various influential thinkers have developed this concept family historically.  
 

1 hr 3 min