Consciousness and actuality in Whiteheadian ontology

David W. Smith

pp. 269-297

in: Liliana Albertazzi (ed), The dawn of cognitive science, Berlin, Springer, 2001

Abstract

If cognitive science is the science of cognition, what is cognition? Whitehead's answer is drawn directly from his fundamental ontology: cognition is a special form of what he calls "prehension,' taking more particular forms in conscious perception, thought, imagination and other psychological processes.

Cited authors

Whitehead Alfred North