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Summary of Sinclair Kerby-Miller's Notes of Whi tehead's Lectures Fall 1928 September 27 Scope of philosophy; philosophy correlates Our varied interests by a set of genera2- ideas, Kerby-Miller missed second recture. (Sept. 29) October 2 Speculative philosophy, defined; coherence: nature of languages analogy of the airplane. October 4 Language and philosophy; propositions. October 8 Nexus; relation of concrete and abstract; creativity; categories of existence; categories of explanation October 14 Categories of explanation (continued). October 13 Categoreal obligations. October 18 pecision; particulars and universals; eternal objects; satisfaction; extensive continuum; appetition Summary of S. Kerby-Miller's Notes of Whitehead's Lectures October 18 Order,defined; nexus; Relevance of forms to actuality. November 1 Extensive continuum; space and time; internal and external relations, November 3 Theory of induction; denial of disjunction of entities; Hume, on causation, November 6 Order and complexity; primordial nature of God; Kant,on experience; compatibility, order, depth of feeling; laws of nature; transmutation; life; NOvember 6 (part 2, listed as pp. 3-4) Mentality; order; cosmic epochs; .ground of order. November 6 Nature of cosmology; electromagnetic epoch. November _15 Two notions of organism, microscopic and macroscopic; subjective form; depth and complexity of experience; feeling December 5 (probably given on December 4) Propositions; language; relations; nexus. Summary” of S, Kerby-Miller's Notes of Whitenead's lectures December 6 Metaphysics; probability. December 8 Probability; random sampling; induction, December 11 Permanence and flux; concrescence; transition; satisfaction; phases Of conerescence; notion of organism, December 13 Mind-body problem; mental pole; physical pole; coordination of experience, December 15 Adequacy of our philosophies; final outline of course,

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