It is often tacitly assumed without much debate that Whitehead’s metaphysics constitutes a species of process philosophy compatible in the main with older varieties of process metaphysics inspired by various evolutionist theories. There is little explicit influence from the field of biology, from biological evolution, or from evolutionist theories generally, all of which are unsystematically presupposed. Among these four thinkers, that is, only Peirce develops a full-blown "evolutionary cosmology in any recognizable sense.Whitehead’s cosmology, by contrast, is influenced principally by mathematical physics (primarily relativity theory, and to a lesser degree, quantum mechanics). Only in Peirce’s later thought, however, does an explicit evolutionary paradigm come to assume central importance. 18 That is to say, Whitehead, James, Peirce, and Dewey all presuppose some concept of evolutionary development in their philosophies indeed, their respective styles of philosophizing would have been inconceivable apart from the prior development of evolutionist theories. Whitehead is as "post-evolutionary" in his thought as were the pragmatists, for example, in theirs. This is not to say that evolutionist theories are unimportant to his philosophy. He offers a post-evolutionary philosophy. Lucas argues that evolution and evolutionist theories play no significant role in Whitehead’s metaphysics, and that there is no evidence in his major works of any significant influence from earlier process-oriented "evolutionary cosmologies." This does not mean that Whitehead was opposed to evolution or neutral with regarx to it.
Did theories of biological evolution play an important role in his systematic philosophy? No, says Whitehead scholar, Dr. Many people wonder how we got here.Did Alfred North Whitehead believe in biolgical evolution? Yes. It is a description of their methodology (for a review of the academic literature on the subject, see the book Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay. What is important is whether or not they achieve the desired results in politics and society.
In such ideologies, it is not important whether or not the arguments are logically consistent or if they are true in any real sense. In modern “woke” ideology, there are no facts, only arguments which express cultural power- based on the acceptance of those arguments by current society.
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