Alfred North Whitehead

Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28)

One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy. Whitehead’s master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant. The ultimate edition of Whitehead’s magnum opus, Process and Reality is a standard reference for scholars of all backgrounds.

Process and Reality

The title of this book, Adventures of Ideas, bears two meanings, both applicable to the subject-matter. One meaning is the effect of certain ideas in promoting the slow drift of mankind towards civilization. This is the Adventure of Ideas in the history of mankind. The other meaning is the author's adventure in framing a speculative scheme of ideas which shall be explanatory of the historical adventure.

Adventures of Ideas

Modes of Thought

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

A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality

The general topic of this volume is education on its intellectual side. One main idea runs through the various chapters, and it is illustrated in them from many points of view. It can be stated briefly thus: the students are alive, and the purpose of education is to stimulate and guide their self-development. It follows as a corollary from this premise, that the teachers also should be alive with living thoughts. The whole book is a protest against dead knowledge, that is to say, inert ideas. - Preface.

Aims of Education

Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific discovery. Taking readers through the history of modern science, Whitehead shows how cultural history has affected science over the ages in relation to such major intellectual themes as romanticism, relativity, quantum theory, religion, and movements for social progress.

Science and the Modern World

Bertrand Russell

This abridged text of the most famous work ever written on the foundations of mathematics contains material that is most relevant to an introductory study of logic and the philosophy of mathematics.

Principia Mathematica to *56

By Alfred North Whitehead Process and Reality

Principia Mathematica: to *56

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The Function of Reason

Whitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant in its most vivid and direct form.

Barbour-Page Lectures, University of Virginia, 1927

Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect

An Introduction to Mathematics

Egitimin Amaçlari - Egitimde Reform Çagrisi

Bilim ve Modern Dünya; 1925 Lowell Dersleri

Este livro é um estudo a cerca de alguns aspectos da cultura ocidental ao longo dos últimos séculos, enquanto esta foi influenciada pelo desenvolvimento da ciência. Escrito na primeira metade do século passado, não envelheceu. Trata-se de um clássico, pois apresenta reflexões fundamentais para a compreensão da ciência moderna em suas origens e na atualidade. É um estudo guiado pela convicção de que a mentalidade de uma época nasce da visão de mundo predominante nos setores instruídos das comunidades em questão. Os diversos campos do interesse humano que sugerem cosmologias são a ciência, a estética, a ética e a religião. Em todas as épocas, cada um desses assuntos evoca uma visão de mundo. A crítica das cosmologias é também uma função da filosofia. É sua função harmonizar, remodelar e justificar intuições divergentes em relação à natureza das coisas. Deve insistir tanto na análise minunciosa das últimas idéias como na retenção de todas as evidências que modelam nosso esquema cosmológico. Seu trabalho é tornar explícito e - na medida do possível - eficiente um processo que, de outra maneira, seria realizado inconscientemente.

A ciência e o mundo moderno

With Applications

A Treatise on Universal Algebra

A Treatise on Universal Algebra with Applications

"Whitehead critiques generally accepted ideas about substance, space, and time, as inherited from ancient Greek philosophers and as modified in the Enlightenment. Although Whitehead accepted Einstein's theory of relativity, he took issue with Einstein's interpretation of it. Instead of positing matter as the substratum of the universe, Whitehead argued for the "event" and the "process of becoming" as the starting points for analyzing reality. He thought that this "organic" interpretation was closer to our direct, everyday experience of attributes and their relations than the abstract notion of matter assumed by philosophers and scientists for so many centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

The Concept of Nature

Following up on his two previous works, The Principles of Natural Knowledge and The Concept of Nature, Whitehead explains his alternative theory of relativity, which "cuts away the casual heterogeneity" of Einstein's later theory. Dividing his book into three parts--General Principles, Physical Applications, and Elementary Theory of Tensors--the author's arguments and observations utilize his own unique mix of nature, philosophy, and "the old division between physics and geometry." This work, first published in 1922, is essential reading for students, teachers, scientists, or anyone interested in the relationship of physics to philosophy. English mathematician and philosopher ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1861-1947) contributed significantly to 20th-century logic and metaphysics. With Bertrand Russell he cowrote the landmark Principia Mathematica, and also authored The Concept of Nature, The Function of Reason, and Process and Reality.

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