Whitehead, Alfred North

Whitehead, Alfred North. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge. At the University Press, Cambridge. 1919. 

Whitehead, Alfred North. Science and the Modern World. The Macmillan Company, New York. 1929. 

Whitehead, Alfred North. Essays in Science and Philosophy. Philosophical Library, New York. 1947. 

Whitehead, Alfred North. The Function of Reason. Boston Beacon Press, 1958. 

The person who has laid the most firm foundation for understanding this sort of notion philosophically is Alfred North Whitehead. Nothing we have suggested is beyond the power of his method to anticipate. Whitehead s formalism accounts for minds and organisms and a number of phenomena poorly resolved by the Cartesian approach. 

However, I never became a True Believer since by chance (but fortunately) 1 also read the principle of relativity (PR) by Whitehead, who pointed to a logical problem for Einstein, which, as far as I am aware, has never been dealt with adequately. Alfred North Whitehead (1860-1947) was a master of mathematical logic, which he showed as senior author of the famous three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics. As a mathematical Fellow and Tutor at Trinity... 

Alfred North-Whitehead said that the rejection of any source of evidence is always treason to that ultimate rationalism which urges forward science and philosophy alike. ... 

AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL KNOWLEDGE by Alfred North Whitehead. Copyright 1919. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, at the University Press, Cambridge. 

Second, the notion of process dominates the work of three philosophers of the last century Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941), Samuel Alexander (1859-1938), and Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) (see Ayer, 1982, pp. 208-9). In passing, it is perhaps worth noting that process theology is based on the metaphysics of Whitehead, who rejected Divine Action in terms of causality, proposing that God acts persuasively in all events, but not necessarily in determining their character. Specifically, Whitehead pointed out the incoherence of belief in a lifeless universe. 

The other two geniuses that Alice met, by the way, were Pablo Picasso and the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Personally, I never doubted that Alice might have responded to Picasso, who clearly had a way with women. But Alfred North Whitehead I wasn t so sure. So I tracked down his birthday, and guess what Whitehead s Venus in Aquarius was conjunct Alice s Mars, and his Pluto in Taurus was exactly conjunct her Venus. I m certain that when they met something within her rang. 

This physical conception of substance was questioned by scientific philosophers like F.W. Schelling, Charles Sanders Peirce, Emile Meyerson, and Alfred North Whitehead.10 With Bachelard, one might say that their critical questions introduce a chemical conception of substance into philosophy. For the chemist, the term substance designates first and foremost the particular elementary or compound stuff that stands at the beginning and at the end of a chemical process (cf. Bachelard 1968, 45,49, 60,70). As such, chemical substance is no hypothetical substrate but presents itself in chemical practice. Questions regarding its reality concern not its existence but how it makes itself known. Since chemical substance presents itself at different levels of laboratory experience, Bachelard posits a laminated reality for chemical substance— substance does not have, at all levels, the same coherence (Bachelard 1968, 46) ... 

In searching for persons of key influence in developing Doc s abilities as a teacher I found my second clue in a statement by Alfred North Whitehead. According to Whitehead, Education is impossible apart... 

Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher)... 

Halewood, M. (2011) Alfred North Whitehead and Social Theory The Body, Abstraction, Process, London Anthem Press. 

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