유기체의 철학에 대한 신과학의 관점에서의 재평가 = An Evaluation of the Philosophy of Organism from the Perspective of New Sciences

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the validity of the philosophy of organism, which had been developed by Whitehead who was a great scholar in mathematics and physics, from the perspective of new sciences including but not necessarily limited to the uncertainty principle, the theory of relativity, the chaos theory, the complexity theory, and the superstring theory. I think that it is safe to say that the validity of the philosophy of organism from the perspective of the uncertainty principle and the theory of relativity has been established by Whitehead and his followers because those scientific theories were already confirmed as valid theories far before his death and he possessed a good knowledge of them. But those remaining scientific theories such as chaos theory and superstring theory were not known to him. I believe, therefore, that examining the philosophy of organism from the perspective of these new scientific theories is very much interesting and crucial to its further development. To accomplish this purpose, first, I will reexamine the philosophy of organism from the perspective of the uncertainty principle and the theory of relativity briefly. After then, I will investigate the validity of it from the perspective of the new sciences.