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Hace 1 día · In the 20th century, Alfred North Whitehead attempted something like an evolutionizing of Platonism. He aimed to reconcile modern science, which focused on efficient causes, with the formal and final causes known to the ancient world.
Hace 2 días · Alfred North Whitehead’s (1861-1947) first course in philosophy was the one he taught as a newly hired professor for the Harvard Philosophy Department in the Fall semester of 1924. Prior to being invited to Cambridge, Massachusetts at 63 years old, ...
Hace 4 días · See Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature (Cambridge 1920), pp. 30–1, 44–5, 185.Back to (8) January 2012. Other reviews. New Statesman; Related terms. Historiography; Philosophy of History; Share. About Us. Meet our Editorial Board and deputy editor, and find out a bit more about the history of Reviews.
Hace 5 días · We fear what Alfred North Whitehead once intuited, a systemic failure. (Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, 99, 162) However, we also fear change itself, as Mary Shelley captured succinctly in her novel Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus, “nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” [1]
Hace 5 días · He refers to Alfred North Whitehead’s analysis of how the very nature of what we consider to be ‘science’ changed fundamentally in the 19th century, and techno-science became inseparable from a drive towards product creation within capitalism, and, as Crary points out, its focus became one of commercial, profitable, applications.
Hace 5 días · Process theologians such as Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne view God not as omnipotent in the classical sense but as a dynamic being who works with creation toward goodness. Disabilities and suffering are seen as part of the evolving process of creation.
Hace 5 días · Later, his book written with Alfred North Whitehead, Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), the seminal text of classical logic and of the logicist project, encouraged many philosophers to renew their interest in the development of symbolic logic.
