Speculative Inquiry: Thinking With Whitehead

Abstract

This article explores what Whitehead’s process philosophy opens up for “new” approaches to philosophically informed inquiry. The article begins with a brief discussion of Whitehead’s process philosophy, an explanatory section that develops key concepts necessary for understanding his ontological principle, followed by a discussion of how Whitehead offers a recalibration of experience and the subject in his process philosophy. The article ends with a discussion of how this system of thought is different from the epistemological system of thought that grounds conventional social science inquiry and what is opened up in terms of inquiry in the new.

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