A Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition
. 1861–1947. Born in Thanet, he worked mainly in Cambridge, London and Harvard. His early work was in mathematics and logic, in which he taught, and then collaborated with, RUSSELL. Later he turned more to METAPHYSICS, and developed a philosophy based on processes and events rather than on material objects.
His work was influenced by developments in physics then current, and was also relevant to philosophy of science on topics such as laws of nature. Principia Mathematica, 1910–13 (with Russell, Whitehead concentrating mainly on the mathematical parts, Russell on the philosophical). Science and the Modern World, 1925. Process and Reality, 1929 (often regarded as his main philosophical book, but difficult). Adventures of Ideas, 1933.
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