Alfred North Whitehead's Books
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Process and RealityBased on the Gifford Lectures which Whitehead delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1927-8. Process and Reality presents a system of speculative...Read More -
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 9, 2013
...you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer." -- Alfred North Whitehead In 2011 there were approximately 78.2 million pet dogs and 86.4 million pet cats in the United States according to the Humane Society of America. Given...
SSRN, April 2, 2013
...and public life more generally. For more than two decades, under the leadership of Dennis F. Thompson, the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy, the Center made significant strides in breaking down these barriers through its rich...
Institute of Sciences in Society, March 29, 2013
...the nature of space and time, the French philosopher Henri Bergson’s time and freewill, the English mathematician-philosopher Alfred North Whitehead’s organic space-time in the quantum universe; what is life, why are organisms are so perfectly...
The Australian, March 26, 2013
...need a lecturer to decipher parts of them for the average undergraduate. Another great thinker, mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead argued that the popularisation of the printing press in the 15th century should have led to the demise...
Pop Matters, March 22, 2013
...lisp on a 1966 episode of F Troop or Telly Savalas’ attempt to cover the Beatles collide with Alfred North Whitehead’s apercu that it “requires a very unusual mind to undertake an analysis of the obvious”: the “grammar of rock” signifies a...
Jewish Indianapolis, November 28, 2012
...was about the closest thing to a classical education—Classical with a capital C. Here I’m reminded of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), the renowned British philosopher-mathematician who joined the Harvard faculty in 1924. Whitehead dared say:...
Frontpagemag.com, November 2, 2012
...or whether we should work on both fronts at once—a trilemma which puzzled no less an authority than Alfred North Whitehead in The Aims of Education , a book which no authentic educator can afford to ignore. One way or another, we need to heal a broken...
Edutopia, January 17, 2013
...can be instructive to look back. In “The Rhythmic Claims of Freedom and Discipline,” first published in 1922, Alfred North Whitehead cautioned against the mere teaching of subjects for “inert knowledge.” Whitehead, A. (1967). The Aims of...
Harvard University Gazette, January 16, 2013
...He attended classes as a special student in 1952 and 1953, taking philosophy courses on Plato and on Alfred North Whitehead. His grade report showed a B and an A-, respectively. King also was a guest preacher at Harvard’s Memorial Church during the...
Institute of Sciences in Society, January 14, 2013
...organism is electric, as the universe is electric, is the universe an organism? Yes, said English mathematician -philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), who had an enormous influence on me. Writing fresh in the first flowering of quantum...
Uncensored Magazine, January 14, 2013
...organism is electric, as the universe is electric, is the universe an organism? Yes, said English mathematician -philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), who had an enormous influence on me. Writing fresh in the first flowering of quantum...
Thomaston Times, January 12, 2013
...of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer - Alfred North Whitehead ∙ Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow - Jeff Valdez ∙ Dogs come when they’re called...
Examiner.com, January 4, 2013
...s right in front of our eyes, but we simply hadn’t notice. The great linguist and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said, “It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” With that in mind, I’d love to share with you...
BMC, January 3, 2013
...Abraham Moles and Frieder Nake [25,26]. These viewpoints are broadly in line with the philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead who claimed "Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the...
