The Organic Realism of Whitehead

Whitehead's philosophy is an attempt to revise Newtonian mechanistic metaphysics by saying science itself has disproven materialism. He says his philosophy is a philosophy of organism he also calls it organic realism and as Shelling did in his own day whitehead takes this this image or this this idea of the organism and applies it to cosmology and applying it to physics. The operative metaphor for whitehead rather than the machine becomes the organism so that we can bring our scientific picture of nature into alignment with our sense of human values, ethics and aesthetic judgments.