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Hace 1 día · This article explores how Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy can contribute to geography's more-than-human aspirations, focussing on his radically non-anthropocentric theory of experience. ... Whitehead died in 1947, 10 years after he retired from teaching at Harvard.
Hace 14 horas · Whitehead did not start doing philosophy proper until he was in his sixties. By trade, he was a mathematician and a theoretical physicist. He tells us that his entire metaphysics is based upon his understanding and interpretation of the implications of the mathematical physics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in which he was so well-versed.
Hace 2 días · Alfred North Whitehead, in contrast, maintains that human beings are continuous with the rest of nature. These different metaphysical systems demand different ethical stances toward creation.Benzoni analyzes and challenges Thomas's understanding of the human soul, his primary justification for the moral separation, arguing that it is finally philosophically untenable.
Hace 4 días · Abingdon, Routledge, 2009, ISBN: 9780415472364; 334pp.; Price: £24.99. Mr Martin Davies, review of At the Limits of History. Essays on Theory and Practice, (review no. 834) ‘We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong’: Gregory Bateson’s observation summarizes what motivates Keith Jenkins’s latest book.
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.
Hace 14 horas · This question has been written about by philosophers since at least the ancient Parmenides (c. 515 BC). "Why is there anything at all?" or "why is there something rather than nothing?" is a question about the reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented on by a range of philosophers and physicists, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger ...
Hace 4 días · Alfred North Whitehead: Whitehead's theory of gravitation: Quasilinear: 1922, 1923: Élie Cartan: Einstein–Cartan theory: Non-metric: 1939: Markus Fierz, Wolfgang Pauli: 1943: George David Birkhoff: 1948: Edward Arthur Milne: Kinematic Relativity: 1948: Yves Thiry: 1954: Achilles Papapetrou: Scalar field: 1953: Dudley E. Littlewood ...
