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There are 24 critical essays on Alfred North Whitehead.
Critical Essays on Alfred North Whitehead

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Critical Essay by Bruce Holsapple
12,908 words, approx. 43 pages
 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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Critical Essay by David R. Griffin
11,089 words, approx. 37 pages
 In the following essay, Griffin explores parallels between Whitehead's thought and the doctrines of Buddhism.
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Critical Essay by James A. Keller
10,630 words, approx. 35 pages
 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 the opposing natures of primary substance, causation, and value held by these two camps, Keller examines consequent differences in their conceptions of God.
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Critical Essay by Charles Hartshorne
7,979 words, approx. 27 pages
 In the following essay, Hartshorne traces affinities in the ethical thought and philosophies of religion of Whitehead and Nicolas Berdyaev.
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Critical Essay by Gordon Treash
7,270 words, approx. 24 pages
 In the following essay, Treash compares Whitehead's philosophy of organism to the modern, Kantian conception of nature.
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Critical Essay by Robert E. Doud
6,961 words, approx. 23 pages
 In the following essay, Doud investigates correspondences between Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry and Whitehead's metaphysics.
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Critical Essay by Victor Lowe
6,677 words, approx. 22 pages
 In the following essay, Lowe surveys Whitehead's systematic philosophy, assessing it favorably.
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Critical Essay by John Dewey
6,657 words, approx. 22 pages
 In the following essay, Dewey explicates the fundamental structure of Whitehead's philosophy of experience.
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Critical Essay by Donald W. Sherburne
6,215 words, approx. 21 pages
 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.”
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Critical Essay by Frank Burch Brown
6,130 words, approx. 20 pages
 In the following essay, Brown examines Whitehead's views on “poetry's connection with theology and metaphysics.”
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Critical Essay by Charles Hartshorne
5,510 words, approx. 18 pages
 In the following essay, Hartshorne compares the thought of Bertrand Russell and Whitehead, judging Whitehead the greater philosopher.
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Critical Essay by Mark Johnson
5,449 words, approx. 18 pages
 In the following essay, Johnson considers Robert Duncan's poetry in relation to Whitehead's process philosophy.
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Critical Essay by Linda Mizejewski
5,378 words, approx. 18 pages
 In the following essay, Mizejewski explores the Whiteheadian consciousness of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons.
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Critical Essay by Lewis S. Ford
5,250 words, approx. 18 pages
 In the following essay, Ford studies Whitehead's concept of experience “as a unification of many past actualities.”
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Critical Essay by Harry Campbell
4,745 words, approx. 16 pages
 In the following essay, Campbell considers similarities in the views of Whitehead and Ralph Waldo Emerson concerning “man's relation to Nature and God.”
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Critical Essay by Edmund Wilson
4,740 words, approx. 16 pages
 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.”
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Critical Essay by Howard Press
3,629 words, approx. 12 pages
 In the following essay, Press characterizes Whitehead's metaphysics as based upon a moral philosophy of aestheticism.
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Critical Essay by Charles Hartshorne
3,540 words, approx. 12 pages
 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.
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Critical Essay by Herbert W. Wendler
3,249 words, approx. 11 pages
 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.
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Critical Essay by John Dewey
3,047 words, approx. 10 pages
 In the following essay, originally published in 1937, Dewey examines the basic method of Whitehead's philosophy.
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Critical Essay by Alexander P. Cappon
2,632 words, approx. 9 pages
 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.

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