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Author : W. Mays
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401010856
Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486438993
The brilliant mathematician explores the problems of substance, space, and time; criticizes Einstein's method of interpreting results; and offers an alternative theory of the four-dimensional space-time manifold. 1920 edition.
Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521092450
The Tarner Lectures delivered in Trinity College November 1919.
Author : Lewis S. Ford
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438402994
A breathtaking detective story, this book charts the adventure of Whitehead's ideas in a remarkably detailed and careful reconstruction of his metaphysical views. Incorporating heretofore unpublished material from students' notes and correspondence, Professor Ford analyzes the order of composition of various portions of Whitehead's books, principally Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and Reality. Ford's reconstructive method is perfectly tailored to his subject, for Whitehead revised by inserting new material rather than altering or deleting the old. Thus Ford is able to date the sequence of the composition of many passages. In distinguishing these layers of articulation, he has pushed the techniques of "higher criticism" beyond anything the French structuralists and deconstructionists have dreamed of and chronicled an extraordinary intellectual biography.
Author : Paul A. Bogaard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474401852
Presents Whiteheads lectures at Harvard during the 19245 academic year: the first philosophy lectures he ever gaveBeginning in September of 1924, Alfred North Whitehead presented a regular course of 85 lectures which concluded in May of 1925. These represent the first ever philosophy lectures he gave and capture him working out the philosophical implications of the remarkable turns physics had taken in his lifetime. This volume finally recreates these lectures by transcribing notes by W. P. Bell, W. E. Hocking and Louise Heath taken at the time many of which have only recently been discovered and including hundreds of sketches of Whitehead's blackboard diagrams. This is a unique insight into the evolution of Whiteheads thought during the months when he was drafting his seminal work, Science and the Modern World. Includes transcriptions of the lecture notes, a chronology, over 300 line drawings of Whiteheads blackboard sketches, a bibliography of referenced works and an index to the lecturesGives an overview of the content of the 85 lecturesClarifies how these lectures represent Whiteheads philosophical insightsDescribes the circumstances that preserved the three sets of notes
Author : Ann L. Plamondon
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0873951662
This work assumes that Leclerc has correctly interpreted the relationship of the earlier philosophy of science to the later philosophy of organism and that the "considerable change in Whitehead's theories about the problems of science" has yet to be elucidated. It is the purpose of the present work to set out passages from Whitehead's philosophy of organism in order to elaborate the philosophy of nature embodied in the metaphysics and to draw the implications of the metaphysics for present discussions in the philosophy of science.
Author : North Whitehead Alfred
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789359951683
Alfred North Whitehead's observe of "The Concept of Nature" is a philosophical adventure that ties together metaphysics, technological know-how, and the essence of fact in a very complicated manner. Whitehead, a famous scientist and logician, wants to trade the manner we think about nature by way of giving us a technique-based totally metaphysics. In the book, Whitehead questions the not unusual concept that mind and consider are separate things. He does this by way of imparting the concept of "organism" as a basic unit of truth. He says that the world is a complex internet of activities that are all related and changing all the time thru a procedure referred to as "becoming." According to Whitehead, nature is not continually a hard and fast set of cloth matters however a living, linked gadget. Whitehead's recognition on how things are connected and the way change in no way stops suggests that he changed into no longer wondering within the mechanistic way that most people did at the time. He appears at what cutting-edge advances in remedy mean from a philosophical point of view, presenting a brand new manner of wondering that connects technological know-how and philosophy. People who study "The Concept of Nature" are asked to rethink how they consider the natural world. They are instructed to peer reality as a chain of linked events in place of a group of separate matters. Philosophers, scientists, and people who want to recognize the private mysteries of the arena are nonetheless talking about Whitehead's concept-frightening exploration.
Author : Victor Lowe,Allison Heartz Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : UOM:39015001143497
Author : Randall E. Auxier,Gary L. Herstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351792479
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 : Robert Palter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89037587649
Author : F. Bradford Wallack
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0873954548
While my book attempts to reflect the full range of scholarly debate, I have also attempted to make it useful to anyone interested in Whitehead. To this end, I have introduced the Whiteheadian terms one by one, explaining each in the light of my interpretation, and I have used examples wherever possible. I try to show that Whitehead intended his philosophy have a place in our lives by reshaping our common conceptions, and that he did not intend it to be relegated to purely abstract or esoteric application. F. Bradford Wallack The twentieth century has seen the greatest innovations in philosophical cosmology since Newton and Descartes, and Alfred North Whitehead was the first and greatest of the philosophers to work out these innovations in systematic ways. In a book that will be controversial in the philosophical community, F. Bradford Wallack argues that interpretations widely accepted by Whiteheadians need revaluation because these interpretations are based on materialist and substantialist assumptions that Whitehead sought to replace. Specifically, she proposes a thorough revision of accepted interpretations of Whiteheads concept of the actual entity. Wallack then elucidates Whiteheads ideas in order of their increasing dependence upon other basic Whiteheadian terms to complete the study of Whiteheadian time and to clarify its purpose within the cosmology of Process and Reality. Whiteheads philosophy then emerges as more intelligible and cohesive than is generally believed.
Author : Leemon B. McHenry
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474404785
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 : Ann L. Plamondon
Publisher : Suny Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0873953878
A new approach to Whitehead's philosophy of science, relating his mature metaphysical system to contemporary discussions in the philosophy of science.
Author : Alfred North Whitehead,Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 052106791X
The Principia Mathematica has long been recognised as one of the intellectual landmarks of the century.
Author : Remy Lestienne
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781800611795
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), a mathematician and logician by training, was the author of highly original works at the crossroads of science and philosophy which explore the nature of the world around us and its temporal flow.Convinced that everyday terms distort reality, Whitehead invented or borrowed terms more appropriate to his project. The word 'Process', which gives its title to his most famous work Process and Reality (1929), is central to his thinking. Process introduces his vision of nature as a succession of crystallizations, each of which proves the finite granularity of time: the instant does not exist. It also implies a confrontation with the theory of relativity and quantum physics. Whitehead's perspective allows for the occurrence of creative novelties, but necessitates that the world cooperates with a deity, the role of which is examined in this book's last chapter.In Alfred North Whitehead, Philosopher of Time, the author mixes biographical elements with intellectual advances, from logicism to philosophies of nature. A compelling introduction to Whitehead's demanding work, this book deciphers a metaphysical landscape often considered too abstract to be approachable, but points out the philosopher's imperfections with respect to the scientific advances of our time.