The Mind Of Whitehead

Author : Roland Faber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666735482

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The Mind of Whitehead by Roland Faber Pdf

If one believes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, Alfred North Whitehead’s work is one of the most important events in the exploration of the universes of thought in recent times. Whitehead’s text confronts us with the feeling of existing in a world that cannot be defined by any creed or method, but offers us unexpected friends: ideas—ideas that unleash and alleviate, play and mitigate despair, swim in the rough waters, but without effort let go of us if we cannot fathom them. For adventurers who risk the encounter with Whitehead’s text, its treasures feel like balm on the overheated, burning sensation of wounds of division. A way out. A new way. A revolution—not of violent overturning, but of gentle reorientation in which compassionate thinking breathes. It is not about systems, but permeated with musical rhythms and harmonics, composing significance with impermanence. It does not arrive at a promised land, but perhaps is a harbinger of things to come, sensing a universe that will surprise our descendants. It does not reveal a mind in which we can live, but one that challenges all rest.

Author : Alfred North Whitehead,Lucien Price
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1567921299

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Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead by Alfred North Whitehead,Lucien Price Pdf

Philosopher, mathematician, and general man of science, Alfred North Whitehead was a polymath whose interests and generous sympathies encompassed entire worlds. Here, clearly modelled on Eckermann's conversations with Goethe and recorded in Whitehead's own home, are some of the landmarks, signposts, milestones, and noble scenery of that extraordinary mind. Whitehead's approach to life and science provides a compass for the modern world. In these pages the immense reaches of his thought - in philosophy, religion, science, statesmanship, education, literature, art, and conduct of life - are gathered and edited by the writer Lucien Price, a sophisticated journalist whose own interests were as eclectic as Whitehead's and whose memory for verbatim conversation was nothing short of miraculous. The scene, the Cambridge of Harvard from 1932-1947 (with flashbacks to London; Cambridge, England; and his native Ramsgate in Kent); the cast, men and women, often eminent, who join him for these penetrating, audacious, and exhilarating verbal forays. The subjects range from the homeliest details of modern living to the greatest ideas that have animated the mind of man over the past thirty centuries.--Back cover.

Author : Roland Faber
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780227179987

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The Mind of Whitehead by Roland Faber Pdf

For Alfred North Whitehead, the fundamental basis of reality is connectivity; the possibility, interdependence and actualisation that defy our human desire for structure, categorisation and division. In this spirit, Professor Roland Faber combines the disparate interests of Whitehead's study - from Mathematics to Divinity, Political Philosophy to Cosmology - to trace the thematic similarities of this work, and establish their unity in the 'mind' of Whitehead. Focussing on the experience of reading Whitehead's rich text, Faber invites the reader not to search for fixed patterns but to explore the impermanence and diversity of Whitehead's ideas. The Mind of Whitehead offers the curious reader a creative exploration of a crucial twentieth-century philosopher, speaking to global concerns from a position of possibility and complexity.

Author : Randall E. Auxier,Gary L. Herstein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351792486

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The Quantum of Explanation by Randall E. Auxier,Gary L. Herstein Pdf

The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries. Using a complete interpretation of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophical and mathematical writings and an interpretive structure that is essentially new, Auxier and Herstein argue that Whitehead has never been properly understood, nor has the depth and breadth of his contribution to the human search for knowledge been assimilated by his successors. This important book effectively applies Whitehead’s philosophy to problems in the interpretation of science, empirical knowledge, and nature. It develops a new account of philosophical naturalism that will contribute to the current naturalism debate in both Analytic and Continental philosophy. Auxier and Herstein also draw attention to some of the most important differences between the process theology tradition and Whitehead’s thought, arguing in favor of a Whiteheadian naturalism that is more or less independent of theological concerns. This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy and is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in American philosophy, the philosophy of mathematics and physics, and issues associated with naturalism, explanation and radical empiricism.

Author : Roland Faber
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780227179970

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The Mind of Whitehead by Roland Faber Pdf

For Alfred North Whitehead, the fundamental basis of reality is connectivity; the possibility, interdependence and actualisation that defy our human desire for structure, categorisation and division. In this spirit, Professor Roland Faber combines the disparate interests of Whitehead’s study – from Mathematics to Divinity, Political Philosophy to Cosmology – to trace the thematic similarities of this work, and establish their unity in the ‘mind’ of Whitehead. Focussing on the experience of reading Whitehead’s rich text, Faber invites the reader not to search for fixed patterns but to explore the impermanence and diversity of Whitehead’s ideas. The Mind of Whitehead offers the curious reader a creative exploration of a crucial twentieth-century philosopher, speaking to global concerns from a position of possibility and complexity.

Author : Alfred North Whitehead,Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 052106791X

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Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead,Bertrand Russell Pdf

The Principia Mathematica has long been recognised as one of the intellectual landmarks of the century.

Author : Leemon B. McHenry
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474404785

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Event Universe by Leemon B. McHenry Pdf

Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead's theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as W. V. Quine. In this way, McHenry defends the naturalised and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century.

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226752938

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A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead Pdf

Whitehead's magnum opus is as important as it is difficult. It is the only work in which his metaphysical ideas are stated systematically and completely, and his metaphysics are the heart of his philosophical system as a whole. Sherburne has rearranged the text in a way designed to lead the student logically and coherently through the intricacies of the system without losing the vigor of Whitehead's often brilliant prose. "The Key renders Process and Reality pedagogically accessible for the first time."—Journal of Religion

Author : Andrew M. Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793636409

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Mind, Value, and Cosmos by Andrew M. Davis Pdf

Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy is an investigation into the nature of ultimacy and explanation, particularly as it relates to the status of, and relationship among Mind, Value, and the Cosmos. It draws its stimulus from longstanding “axianoetic” convictions as to the ultimate status of Mind and Value in the western tradition of philosophical theology, and chiefly from the influential modern proposals of A.N. Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie. What emerges is a relational theory of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility and Actuality, God and the World are revealed as “ultimate” only in virtue of their relationality. The ultimacy of relationality—what Whitehead calls “mutual immanence”—uniquely illuminates enduring mysteries surrounding: any and all existence, necessary divine existence, the nature of the possible, and the world as actual. As such, it casts fresh light upon the whence and why of God, the World, and their ultimate presuppositions.

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 9780029351703

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Adventures of Ideas by Alfred North Whitehead Pdf

History of the human race from the point of view of mankind's changing ideas--sociological, cosmological, philosophica.

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Nature
ISBN : WISC:89055060990

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The Concept of Nature by Alfred North Whitehead Pdf

The Tarner Lectures delivered in Trinity College November 1919.

Author : Malcolm D. Evans
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 9042004320

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Whitehead and Philosophy of Education by Malcolm D. Evans Pdf

That process philosophy can be the foundation of the theory and practice of educating human beings is the main argument of this book. The process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) is the particular thinking on which this book is based. Readers are shown that Whitehead's process philosophy provides a frame, a conceptual matrix, that addresses their concerns about education and offers direction for their educative acts. Whitehead theorized that all living entities are connected in some way. Relatedness, connectedness, and holism are recurring themes in this exploration of Whitehead's implied philosophy of education. Whitehead never wrote a philosophy of education, but his writings over a period of nearly thirty years reveal a persistent interest and concern with education. His work, ranging from Introduction to Mathematics (1911) to Adventures of Ideas (1938), is drawn on here to construct, not Whitehead's philosophy of education, but, a Whiteheadian philosophy of education. Whitehead and Philosophy of Education brings to scholars and students of education an understanding of Whitehead as an important figure in philosophy, particularly philosophy of education; an acquaintance with process philosophy; a brief treatment of Whitehead's life and an account of events and experiences that influenced his philosophizing; and an exploration of the educationally salient concepts found in Whitehead's formal and informal philosophy with special attention to Whitehead's ideas about creativity, process, rhythm, wisdom, and knowledge. Whitehead writes of phases of the rhythm of education - romance, precision, and generalization. The book is organized with attention to these three phases. Part One-Romance introduces readers to Whitehead the person, and the change of context for educating from a mechanistic world-view to an organismic one. Part Two-Precision examines Whitehead's writings, as they relate to process philosophy and to educating. Part Three-Generalization is an application of the explorations of Parts One and Two, yielding a construction of a Whiteheadian philosophy of education and suggestions for educational practice.

Author : Isabelle Stengers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Philosophy, Modern
ISBN : 067441697X

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Thinking with Whitehead by Isabelle Stengers Pdf

In "Thinking with Whitehead, " Isabelle Stengers one of today s leading philosophers of science goes straight to the beating heart of Whitehead s thought. Both an erudite yet accessible introduction and a highly advanced commentary, it establishes the mathematician-philosopher as a daring thinker on par with Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault.

Author : David Ray Griffin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791480304

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Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy by David Ray Griffin Pdf

Postmodern philosophy is often dismissed as unintelligible, self-contradictory, and as a passing fad with no contribution to make to the problems faced by philosophers in our time. While this characterization may be true of the type of philosophy labeled postmodern in the 1980s and 1990s, David Ray Griffin argues that Alfred North Whitehead had formulated a radically different type of postmodern philosophy to which these criticisms do not apply. Griffin shows the power of Whitehead's philosophy in dealing with a range of contemporary issues—the mind-body relation, ecological ethics, truth as correspondence, the relation of time in physics to the (irreversible) time of our lives, and the reality of moral norms. He also defends a distinctive dimension of Whitehead's postmodernism, his theism, against various criticisms, including the charge that it is incompatible with relativity theory.

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Science
ISBN : 1001286332

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Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead Pdf