Alfred North Whitehead Summary

Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947 English philosopher and mathematician who made valuable contributions to the fields of pure and applied mathematics. Whitehead was educated at Cambridge and became a p... Read more

Alfred Whitehead was born the son of an English school teacher who later became an Anglican clergyman. As a young man, Whitehead excelled in mathematics and in 1880 he entered Trinity College, Cambrid... Read more

Alfred North Whitehead is best known as a philosopher and a mathematician. He achieved recognition as a mathematician in 1910 when he began collaborating with his student, Bertrand Russell, on the thr... Read more

In the following essay, Madden and Hare point out internal contradictions in Whitehead's conception of God. The classical problem of evil arises because God's unlimited power and good... Read more

In the following essay, Griffin explores parallels between Whitehead's thought and the doctrines of Buddhism. The idea behind this paper is that both Buddhist and Christian thought and exist... Read more

In the following essay, Keller analyzes several fundamental areas of disagreement between proponents of classical and process metaphysics—the latter group represented by Whitehead. Considering ... Read more

In the following essay, Johnson considers Robert Duncan's poetry in relation to Whitehead's process philosophy. I'd cut the warp to weave that web    &... Read more

In the following essay, Cappon discusses the relationship between Whitehead and William Wordsworth as inheritors of the ancient Greek philosophy of flux originated by Heraclitus. Is it true that in... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in 1937, Dewey examines the basic method of Whitehead's philosophy. Mr. Whitehead's philosophy is so comprehensive that it invites discuss... Read more

In the following essay, Doud investigates correspondences between Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry and Whitehead's metaphysics. As early as The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge it had been... Read more

In the following essay, Cobb presents a detailed survey of Whitehead's speculative philosophy. I. Speculative Postmodernism Although Whitehead (1861-1947) never used the term “postmod... Read more

In the following essay, Sherburne discusses Whitehead's notions of metaphysical perishing and relatedness as they compare with Jean-Paul Sartre's idea of “nothingness.” ... Read more

In the following essay, Lowe surveys Whitehead's systematic philosophy, assessing it favorably. Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the worl... Read more

In the following essay, Hartshorne traces affinities in the ethical thought and philosophies of religion of Whitehead and Nicolas Berdyaev. The obvious differences between A. N. Whitehead and Nicol... Read more

In the following essay, Wendler discusses Whitehead's significant contribution to the shift in contemporary thought from an emphasis on substance to a focus on process. The world according t... Read more