Quantum of Explanation

Randall E. Auxier is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of Time, Will and Purpose: Living Ideas from the Philosophy of Josiah Royce. Gary L. Herstein is an independent scholar with research interests in the philosophy of science, logic, and American philosophy. He is the author of Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of Cosmology.

• Introduction1. Reading Whitehead2. Whitehead's Radical Empiricism3. The Logic in Metaphysics 4. The Quantum of Explanation5. Extensive Relatedness (The Metaphysics in Logic)6. The Principle of Relativity7. Genetic and Co-ordinate Division and Divisibility8. The Problem of Possibility9. The Algebra of Negative Prehension10. The Nature of Naturalism11. Synoptic Pluralism and the Problem of Whiteheadian "Theology"12. Possibility and God13. God’s Mortal Soul

"This is an insightful and provocative account of Whitehead's metaphysics by two gifted and determined scholars … Between them, the authors do exhibit the requisite skills for fully understanding Whitehead and put them to good use in this remarkable, highly original treatment … I heartily recommend that all readers who have ever entertained interest in or curiosity about Whitehead read this remarkable and pathbreaking study. The authors, who write with enviable force and clarity, are by and large right on target in their constructive re-interpretations of his philosophy." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews