TY - JOUR AU - Code, Murray PY - 2022/12/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - On the Meaning of 'Reality' JF - Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy JA - Cosmos and History VL - 18 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1038 SP - 305-326 AB - <p>Modern physics has revealed the intractability of the problem of interpretation in so-called `exact' science, thus vindicating, at least in part, A. N. Whitehead's highly unorthodox non-modern naturalism. For his attempt to rescue life from modern self-styled naturalists points to the need for a would-be naturalist  to `let the dialectic go,' as Victor Lowe put it. That is, to enlist the `method’ of  `imaginative generalization' as the proper way to do speculative metaphysics. Whitehead’s reasonings thus in effect  illustrate a `living' (or `artful’) reason that renders otiose his elaborate attempt in <em>Process and Reality</em> to construct a systematic, comprehensive theory of actuality based upon a formal categoreal scheme. For his writings actually show how to frame a vitalistic metaphysics based upon a  metaphysical imaginary that revolves about the most salient characteristics of a wisely ensouled human self.</p> ER -