Whitehead, Alfred North
WHITEHEAD, ALFRED NORTH (1861–1947), English mathematician and philosopher, much of whose influence has been on theology. Whitehead grew up in a vicarage in the south of...
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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...
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Whitehead, Alfred North(1861–1947)
Alfred North Whitehead, the philosopher and mathematician, made one of the outstanding attempts in his generation to produce a comprehensive metaphysical syst...
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English-born American mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) pioneered in mathematical logic, demonstrating that all mathematics may be derived from a few logical concepts. H...
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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...
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Albert North Whitehead began his career as a mathematician, but eventually became at least as famous as a philosopher. His first three books, A Treatise on Universal Algebra, The Axioms of Projective ...
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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...
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Alfred North Whitehead is acknowledged as one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century. A Cambridge University-trained mathematician, he collaborated with Bertrand Russell on the epoch-maki...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1927, Wilson evaluates Whitehead's philosophy, calling Whitehead “perhaps one of the greatest creative minds of our day.”
Alfred No...
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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 goodnes...
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In the following essay, Press characterizes Whitehead's metaphysics as based upon a moral philosophy of aestheticism.
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At the root of Whitehead's metaphysics, I shall maintain, is a mor...
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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 existenc...
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In the following essay, Hartshorne focuses on the differences between Whitehead's theories and Buddhist belief, particularly in relation to Whitehead's views on causal asymmetry.
Whitehe...
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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 ...
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In the following essay, Brown examines Whitehead's views on “poetry's connection with theology and metaphysics.”
Important as Whitehead has been to much contemporary theolo...
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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
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In the following essay, Hartshorne compares the thought of Bertrand Russell and Whitehead, judging Whitehead the greater philosopher.
Russell is the most gifted Englishman alive. Russell doesn'...
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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 ou...
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In the following essay, Ford studies Whitehead's concept of experience “as a unification of many past actualities.”
Whitehead's philosophy is thought by many to be a modern...
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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 discussion...
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In the following essay, Mizejewski explores the Whiteheadian consciousness of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons.
Since Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons was published in 1914, its colorful c...
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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 th...
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In the following essay, Holsapple regards the correlation between Whitehead's ideas in Science and the Modern World and William Carlos Williams's in The Embodiment of Knowledge.
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Retur...
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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 “postmodern...
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In the following essay, Treash compares Whitehead's philosophy of organism to the modern, Kantian conception of nature.
If Whitehead's philosophy of organism marks the beginning of eithe...
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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.”
Thr...
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In the following essay, Dewey explicates the fundamental structure of Whitehead's philosophy of experience.
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It was long the fashion for philosophers to base their doctrines upon what each one...
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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 world a...
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In the following essay, Hintz studies Whitehead's philosophy of religion.
At the time of Whitehead's death in 1947, a contemporary American philosopher appraised Whitehead's achie...
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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 Nicolas ...
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In the following essay, Campbell considers similarities in the views of Whitehead and Ralph Waldo Emerson concerning “man's relation to Nature and God.”
In his discerning book ent...
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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 to o...
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Whitehead, Alfred North
Alfred North Whitehead
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861–1947)
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
