Metaphysics As Foundation: Essays in Honor of Ivor Leclerc Book

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
	Introduction	1
Sect. 1	Historical Antecedents
1	Kant's Criticism of Panpsychism from the Perspective of the Whiteheadian Metaphysics of Subjectivity	9
2	The Nature of Nature: Kant and Whitehead	42
3	Leibniz and Modern Science	59
4	Metaphysical Lessons of Idealism	73
Sect. 2	The Subject as Creative
5	Creativity as General Activity	98
6	Mais Ou Sont Les Neiges D'Antan?	111
7	Perfecting the Ontological Principle	122
8	The Systematic Ambiguity of Some Key Whiteheadian Terms	150
9	To Be Is To Be Substance-in-Relation	164
Sect. 3	The Subject as Foundation
10	Temporality and the Concept of Being	184
11	The Metaphor of a Foundation for Knowledge	200
12	Collective Guilt	224
Sect. 4	Science, Interaction and the Philosophy of Nature
13	Metaphysical Systems and Scientific Theories: A Structural Comparison	238
14	The Philosophical Content of Quantum Chemistry	252
15	The Nature of Chemical Existence	272
16	What is Time?	285
Sect. 5	Subjectivity and God
17	God, Necessary and Contingent; World, Contingent and Necessary; and the Fifteen Other Options in Thinking About God	296
18	Persons and God	312
	Contributors	333
	Bibliography	339
	Index of Names	345
	Index of Subjects	351