Edward Pols
Edward Pols | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1919 |
| Died | 2005 (aged 85–86) |
| Education | |
| Education | Harvard University (PhD) |
| Thesis | The idea of freedom in the metaphysics of Whitehead (1949) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Process philosophy |
Edward Pols (1919–2005) was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America.[1]
He won the J.N. Findlay Award of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1994 for Radical Realism (1992).
Works
- Acts of our being a reflection on agency and responsibility
- Meditation on a prisoner: towards understanding action and mind
- Mind regained
- Radical realism: direct knowing in science and philosophy
- The recognition of reason
- Whitehead's metaphysics: a critical examination of Process and Reality
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