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Several essays covering various problems concerning internal and external worlds
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The best overview of the philosophy of the second major (after Whitehead) process
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Edmund Husserl's most famous work and has had a decisive impact on the direction
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A work of genius in which a scientifically informed Jesuit philosopher sets
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