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Comments on George Allan’s “Neville’s Ontological Ultimate: A Bridge Too Far”

Comments on George Allan’s “Neville’s Ontological Ultimate: A Bridge Too Far” Comments on George Allan’s “Neville’s Ontological Ultimate: A Bridge Too Far” r obert c ummings n eville / b oston u niversity eorge Allan, following s antayana following h omer, signals that we are in medias res, in the middle of things. i want to reflect on this in g two senses, being in the middle of several philosophical conversations and being in the middle of the cosmos. These come together in many ways regarding a third topic raised by Auxier as well as Allan, namely whether we can go beyond cosmology to metaphysics, or, how to conceive the bridge that might go too far. g eorge Allan and i have been friends and collaborators longer than i ’ve known anyone else here, including my wife. We were classmates at y ale study- ing Plato and Whitehead, among other things. Then for twenty-five years we were codirectors of the s ociety for s tudies of Process Philosophies, which we explicitly intended to be a counterbalance to the developing orthodoxy of what has become the c laremont school, with its c enter for Process s tudies, the journal Process Studies, and its rigorous missionary programs in the f ar e http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Theology & Philosophy University of Illinois Press

Comments on George Allan’s “Neville’s Ontological Ultimate: A Bridge Too Far”

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Comments on George Allan’s “Neville’s Ontological Ultimate: A Bridge Too Far” r obert c ummings n eville / b oston u niversity eorge Allan, following s antayana following h omer, signals that we are in medias res, in the middle of things. i want to reflect on this in g two senses, being in the middle of several philosophical conversations and being in the middle of the cosmos. These come together in many ways regarding a third topic raised by Auxier as well as Allan, namely whether we can go beyond cosmology to metaphysics, or, how to conceive the bridge that might go too far. g eorge Allan and i have been friends and collaborators longer than i ’ve known anyone else here, including my wife. We were classmates at y ale study- ing Plato and Whitehead, among other things. Then for twenty-five years we were codirectors of the s ociety for s tudies of Process Philosophies, which we explicitly intended to be a counterbalance to the developing orthodoxy of what has become the c laremont school, with its c enter for Process s tudies, the journal Process Studies, and its rigorous missionary programs in the f ar e

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American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press

Published: Feb 7, 2015

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