The Function of Reason

One of the most important but unappreciated philosophers of all time. This book is about the limits of science and scientific-rational thinking. On the need for our openness to “speculative reason” to always be able to overcome the dogma of the day. In the same way that the “speculative reason” of science overcame some the dogma of institutionalised religion, we must open ourselves for new “speculative reason” to overcome the dogma of scientific materialism.

The reductionalism and materialism of science and how this has infected and limited the invisible and unquestioned beliefs of our day (eg. liberalism without responsibility or Darwinian evolution) places real and significant impediments to the future of humanity.

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Add notes from my third reading:
The more I read this book the more I appreciate what an awesome thinker Whitehead was. Such a big thinker but also logical but open-minded. Poetic but based in logic and reason. Love this guy.