![]() ![]() The Kantian doctrine of the objective world as a construct from subjective experience. The sensationalist doctrine of perception. The substance-quality doctrine of actuality. Previous models of the self had been thrown off by the stress laid upon one, or other, of three misconceptions: In what Whitehead termed his reformed subjectivist doctrine, he begins as Descartes did with the analysis of an act of experience, and then searches for an adequate model of the self and its experience.ĤWhitehead believed that modern philosophy’s difficulties stem from a worldview that he referred to as Subjectivist Sensationism. The mind-body problem is solved in the philosophy of organism, and a ground for understanding the lived body is provided.ĢThis paper begins with Whitehead’s deconstruction of the modern analysis of the self, and then discusses in turn Whitehead’s “reformed” ontology and theory of perception, the becoming of a single occasion of experience, the development of societies of occasions of experience, the creation of self-identity over time as a society displaying a selective pattern or “unity of style.” The paper concludes with a discussion of this social self, in the context of evolution, displaying an enjoyment and expression of lasting value through a series of fleeting activities of individual occasions of experience.ģWhitehead’s philosophy of organism would not have been created were it not for an analysis of the relations between the self and world. Whitehead’s conception of the self is one that provides an alternative foundation for psychology, helps to make sense of personal identity over time amidst a series of changing experiences, and offers a ground for understanding an ethic based on shared bonds between self and world. ![]() His organic philosophy is understood through various types of process that occur in the becoming of actual organic entities in relationship with one another. Whitehead himself regarded his philosophy as the philosophy of organism. 1Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy has commonly become known as process philosophy. ![]()
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