Panpsychism and Speculative Biology: A.N. Whitehead and C.H. Waddington
Revue roumaine de philosophie December 1, 2025 L. McHenry
The geneticist C.H. Waddington found in A.N. Whitehead’s metaphysics the power of generalization that produced the basic principles of process, creativity and choice, all of which provided a theoretical framework and informed the direction of his scientific research on the development and evolution of organisms. In this paper I begin by examining the flaws in a purely mechanistic and...