Edward Pols
Appearance
Edward Pols | |
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Born | 1919 |
Died | 2005 |
Education | Harvard University (PhD) |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Process philosophy |
Thesis | The idea of freedom in the metaphysics of Whitehead (1949) |
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
[edit]- 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