Edward Pols

Edward Pols
Born	1919
Died	2005
Education	Harvard University (PhD)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Process philosophy
Thesis	The idea of freedom in the metaphysics of Whitehead (1949)

Edward Pols (1919–2005) was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America.

He won the J.N. Findlay Award of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1994 for Radical Realism (1992).

Works

• Acts of our being a reflection on agency and responsibility
• Meditation on a prisoner: towards understanding action and mind
• Mind regained
• Radical realism: direct knowing in science and philosophy
• The recognition of reason
• Whitehead's metaphysics: a critical examination of Process and Reality