Nakamura, Noboru. The Philosophy of Whitehead. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha, June 2007. 

Abstract

This book has three chapters. Their titles are as follows; chap. 1 before introduction, chap.2 introduction, chap.3 what is an epochal time? In the first chapter, the background and outline of the philosophy of Whitehead is described. For example, what an event is electromagnetic epoch, the theory of relativity, nature as a live, the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, and so on. The second chapter explains the core concepts in the philosophy of Whitehead. Actual entity, prehension, eternal object, feeling, symbolic reference, supereject etc. And the last chapter’s theme is the time theory of Whitehead, which is called “the theory of epochal time.” This theory is compared with the time theory of Buddhism and Bergson. This last chapter is a little bit difficult, but basically, this book is a plain introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy. (Noboru Nakamura)