Alfred North Whitehead

Born	February 15, 1861(1861-02-15) Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet, Kent, England
Died	December 30, 1947(1947-12-30) (aged 86) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) was a British mathematician, logician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and the philosophy of science. In collaboration with Bertrand Russell, he co-authored the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910, 1912, 1913). Later he was instrumental in pioneering the approach to metaphysics now known as process philosophy, which today has found application in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, psychology, and media theory, among other areas.

Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology, 1929/1978, DJVU. (Cover of different edition)

Modes of Thought, 1938/1968, ARG. (Cover of different edition)

Works

• A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications, Cambridge: The University Press, 1898. [1]

• "On Cardinal Numbers", American Journal of Mathematics 24 (1902), pp 367-394.

• The Axioms of Projective Geometry, Cambridge University Press, 1906.

• "On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 205 (1906), pp 465-525.

• The Axioms of Descriptive Geometry, Cambridge University Press, 1907.

• with Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica, 3 vols., Cambridge University Press, 1910-13, HTML/1, HTML/2, HTML/3; 2nd ed., 1925/27, PDF/1, PDF/2, PDF/3; abridged as Principia Mathematica to *56, Cambridge University Press, 1962; 1963, IA/1, IA/2, IA/3.

• An Introduction to Mathematics, London: Williams and Norgate, 1911. [2]
  • Wstęp do matematyki, trans. Władysław Wojtowicz, Warsaw: E. Wende, 1914. (Polish)
  • Introducción a las matemáticas, trans. Abel J. Ceci, Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1944, 277 pp. (Spanish)
  • Einführung in die Mathematik, trans. B. Schenker, Vienna: Humboldt, 1948, 222 pp. (German)

• The Organisation of Thought, Educational and Scientific, London: Williams & Norgate, 1917.

• An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, 1919.
  • Une enquête sur les principes de la connaissance naturelle, trans. Henri Vaillant and Sylviane Schwer, Mazy: Chromatika, 2007, xviii+281 pp. (French)

• The Concept of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920; repr., Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2004. [3]
  • El concepto de naturaleza, trans. Jesús Díaz, Madrid: Gredos, 1968, 226 pp. (Spanish)
  • Pojam prirode, trans. Aleksandar Milenković, Belgrade: A. Milenković, 1989. (Serbian)
  • Der Begriff der Natur, trans. Julian von Hassel, Weinheim: VCH, 1990, 173 pp. (German)
  • O conceito de natureza, trans. Julio B. Fischer, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1994, 236 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Le concept de nature, trans. Jean Douchement, Paris: J. Vrin, 1998, 186 pp. (French)

• The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science, Cambridge University Press, 1922.
  • Le principe de relativité et ses applications en physique, trans. Henri Vaillant and Sylviane Schwer, Mazy: Chromatika, 2013, xxix+114 pp. (French)

• Science and the Modern World, Cambridge University Press, 1925.
  • La ciencia y el mundo moderno, trans. Marina Ruiz Lago and J. Rovira Armengol, Buenos Aires: Losada, 1949, 253 pp. (Spanish)
  • Nauka i moderni svet, trans. Aleksandar I. Spasić, Belgrade: Nolit, 1976. (Serbian)
  • Wissenschaft und moderne Welt, trans. Hans Günter Holl, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1984, 258 pp. (German)
  • Nauka i świat nowożytny, trans. & intro. Maciej Kozłowski and Marek Pieńkowski, Kraków: Znak, 1987, 294 pp. (Polish)
  • Nauka i swiat wspolczesny, Warsaw: Instytut Wydawniczy Pax, 1988. (Polish)
  • Veda a moderný svet, trans. Ján Bodnár, Bratislava: Pravda, 1989, 333 pp. (Slovak)
  • La science et le monde moderne, trans. Paul Couturiau, Monaco: Rocher, 1994, 251 pp. (French)
  • A ciência e o mundo moderno, trans. Hermann Herbert Watzlawick, São Paulo: SP Paulus, 2006. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Religion in the Making, New York: Macmillan, 1926. [4]
  • Religionens tilblivelse, trans. Niels Henrik Gregersen, Frederiksberg: Anis, 1995, 143 pp. (Danish)
  • Religia w tworzeniu, trans. Adam Szostkiewicz, intro. Józef Życiński, Kraków: Znak, 1997. (Polish)

• Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect, New York: Macmillan 1927; repr., Cambridge University Press 1958; new ed., Fordham University Press, 1985. Delivered as Barbour-Page Lectures at University of Virginia, New York. [5]
  • "Le symbolisme, sa signification et sa portée", in Whitehead, La fonction de la raison et autres essais, trans. & intro. Philippe Devaux, Paris: Payot, 1969; Paris: Payot & Rivages, 2007. (French)
  • El simbolismo, su significado y efecto, trans. César Nicolás Molina Flores, México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1969, 72 pp. (Spanish)
  • Simbolismo: o seu significado e efeito, trans. Artur Morão, Lisbon: Edições 70, 1987, 74 pp. (Portuguese)
  • Symbolismus, jeho význam a účin, trans. Vlastimil Zuska, Prague: Panglos, 1998, 92 pp. (Czech)
  • Kulturelle Symbolisierung, trans. Rolf Lachmann, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2000. (German)

• The Aims of Education and Other Essays, New York: Macmillan, 1929; repr. 1959; Free Press, 1967, IA. Selection of lectures delivered between 1912 and 1928.
  • Los fines de la educación y otros ensayos, trans. Dora Ivniski, Buenos Aires: Paidos, 1957; 1971, 234 pp. (Spanish)
  • Os fins da educação e outros ensaios, trans. Leônidas Gontijo de Carvalho, São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1969. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Die Ziele von Erziehung und Bildung: und andere Essays, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2011, 200 pp. (German)
  • Les visées de l'éducation et autres essais, trans. Jean-Pascal Alcantara, Vincent Berne and Jean-Marie Breuvart, Mazy: Chromatika, 2011. (French)

• The Function of Reason, Princeton University Press, 1929. [6] Lectures delivered at Princeton University in March 1929.
  • "La fonction de la raison", in Whitehead, La fonction de la raison et autres essais, trans. & intro. Philippe Devaux, Paris: Payot, 1969; Paris: Payot & Rivages, 2007. (French)
  • Die Funktion der Vernunft, trans. & ed. Eberhard Bubser, Stuttgart: P. Reclam, 1974, 79 pp. (German)
  • La Función de la razón, trans. Lucila González Pazos, Madrid: Tecnos, 1985. (Spanish)
  • A função da razão, trans. Fernando Didimo Vieira, Brasilia: Ed. Universidade de Brasilia, 1985, 43 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • "Funkce Rozumu", trans. Michal Andrle, Teorie vědy 32:2, Prague, 2010, pp 143-186. (Czech)

• Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology, New York: Macmillan, 1929; corr.ed., eds. David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne, New York: Free Press, 1978, IA, OL. Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh during the session 1927-28.
  • Proceso y realidad, trans. J. Rovira Armengol, Buenos Aires: Losada, 1956, 474 pp. (Spanish)
  • Prozess und Realität. Entwurf einer Kosmologie, trans. & afterword Hans Günter Holl, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1984, 665 pp. [7] (German)
  • Procès et réalité: essai de cosmologie, trans. Daniel Charles, Maurice Elie, Michel Fuchs, Jean-Luc Gautero, et al., Paris: Gallimard, 1995, 579 pp. (French)
  • Guo cheng yu shi zai: yu zhou lun yan jiu [过程与实在 : 宇宙论硏究], 2003. (Chinese)

• Adventures of Ideas, Cambridge University Press; New York: Macmillan, 1933; 1967, IA.
  • Aventuras de las ideas, Buenos Aires: Fabril, 1961, 308 pp. (Spanish)
  • Abenteuer der Ideen, intro. Reiner Wiehl, trans. Eberhard Bubser, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1971, 523 pp. (German)
  • Aventures d'idées, trans. Jean-Marie Breuvart and Alix Parmentier, Paris: Ed. du Cerf, 1993, 392 pp. (French)
  • Dobrodružství idejí, trans. Zdeněk Bígl, Prague: Oikoymenh, 2000. (Czech)

• Nature and Life, University of Chicago Press, 1934.
  • Naturaleza y vida, trans. & notes, Risieri Frondizi, Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1941. (Spanish)
  • "Nature et vie", in Whitehead, La fonction de la raison et autres essais, trans. & intro. Philippe Devaux, Paris: Payot, 1969; Paris: Payot & Rivages, 2007. (French)

• Modes of Thought, New York: Macmillan, 1938. Six lectures delivered in Wesleyan College, Massachussetts, and two lectures in the University of Chicago. [8] [9]
  • Modos de pensamiento, Buenos Aires: Losada, 1944, 199 pp. (Spanish)
  • Denkweisen, trans. Stascha Rohmer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2001, 201 pp. (German)
  • Modes de pensée, intro. Guillaume Durand, trans. Henri Vaillant, Paris: J. Vrin, 2004. (French)

• Essays in Science and Philosophy, New York: Philosophical Library, 1947; New York: Greenwood Press, 1968, 348 pp.
  • Philosophie und Mathematik : Vorträge und Essays, trans. Felizitas Ortner, Vienna: Humboldt-Verlag, 1949, 214 pp. (German)
  • Scienza e filosofia, trans. Ida Bona, Milan: Casa editore Il Saggiatore, 1966, 314 pp. (Italian)
  • Matematika a dobro a jiné eseje, trans. František Marek and Ladislav Hejdánek, afterword Ladislav Hejdánek, Prague: Mladá fronta, 1970, 124 pp. (Czech)

• The Wit and Wisdom of Whitehead, ed. A.H. Johnson, Boston: Beacon Press, 1947.

• A.N. Whitehead: An Anthology, eds. F.S.C. Northrop and M.W. Gross, Cambridge University Press; New York: Macmillan, 1953. [10]

• Izbrannyje raboty po filosofii, trans. A.F. Grjaznov, intro. M.A. Kisselja, Moscow: Progress, 1990, 716 pp. (Russian)

Literature

Monographs

• Victor Lowe, Understanding Whitehead, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1962, xvii+98 pp. Review: Lawrence (1964).
• Victor Lowe, Alfred North Whitehead. The Man and His Work, 2 vols., Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985 & 1990, xi+351 & xi+389 pp. Biography. Reviews: Griffin (v1, 1986-87), Corrington (v1, 1987), Schlaretzki (v1, 1988), Griffin (v2, 1993). Commentary: Desmet (2007).
• Isabelle Stengers (ed.), L'Effet Whitehead, Paris: Vrin, 1994, 220 pp. Essays by J.-M. Breuvart, J. B. Cobb Jr, D. R. Griffin, D. Janicaud, B. Latour, I. Stengers, H. Vaillant, L. Vanzago. [11] (French) Review: Weber (1994, EN).
• Isabelle Stengers, Penser avec Whitehead. Une libre et sauvage création de concepts, Paris: Seuil, 2002, 582 pp. Focuses on his Concept of Nature, Science and the Modern World, and Process and Reality. (French)
  • Thinking with Whitehead, foreword Bruno Latour, trans. Michael Chase, Harvard University Press, 2011.
• Michael Epperson, Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, Fordham University Press, 2004.
• Janusz A. Polanowski, Donald W. Sherburne (eds.), Whitehead's Philosophy: A Documentary History, SUNY Press, 2004.
• Martin Kaplický, O estetických motivech ve filosofickém díle Alfreda North Whiteheada, Prague: Charles University, 2005, 52 pp. [12] (Czech)
• Steven Shaviro, Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics, MIT Press, 2009, 192 pp.
• Keith Robinson (ed.), Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 237 pp.
• Pierfrancesco Basile, Leibniz, Whitehead and the Metaphysics of Causation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 174 pp.
• Rastislav Nemec, Náčrt Whiteheadovej procesuálnej filozofie, Trnava: Dobrá kniha, 2009, 184 pp. [13] (Slovak) Reviews: Chabada (2010), Spišiaková (2011).
• Michal Andrle, Whiteheadova filosofie přírody, Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2010. (Czech)
• Ronald Faber, Andrea M. Stephenson (eds.), Secrets of Becoming. Negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler, Fordham University Press, 2011.
• Nicholas Gaskill, A. J. Nocek (eds.), The Lure of Whitehead, University of Minnesota Press, 2014, 496 pp.
• Roland Faber, Andrew Goffey (eds.), The Allure of Things: Process and Object in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomsbury, 2014. [14]
• more

Journal issues

• Process Studies 11(4): "Whitehead and Natural Science", ed. Dean R. Fowler, Winter 1981.
• Process Studies 14(4): "Whitehead and Other Philosophers", ed. Ernest Wolf-Gazo, Winter 1985.
• Process Studies 15(2): "Philosophy After Whitehead", ed. George R. Lucas, Jr., Summer 1986.
• Process Studies 17(4): "Whitehead and Education", ed. Donald W. Oliver, Winter 1988.
• Process Studies 21(4): "The Canadian Symposium on Whitehead's Metaphysics", ed. James Bradley, Winter 1992.
• Configurations 13(1): "Whitehead Now", eds. Steven Meyer and Elizabeth Wilson, Winter 2005. [15]
• Revue philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger 131(1): "Whitehead", 2006. (French)
• Theory, Culture & Society 25(4): Special Section on Alfred North Whitehead, ed. Michael Halewood, 2008.
• Teorie vědy 32(2): "Whitehead", Prague, 2010. (Czech)
• Process Studies 41(2): "Whitehead and the Analytic Tradition", eds. Franz Riffert and Ludwig Jaskolla, Fall/Winter 2012. [16]

Book chapters, Papers, Articles

• "Susanne K. Langer's Notes on Whitehead's Course on Philosophy of Nature", ed. Rolf Lachmann, Process Studies 26:1-2 (1997), pp 126-150. From 1927-1928 course.
• Martina Chalupská, "Whiteheadovo pojetí kosmu jako organické jednoty", Pro-Fil (2014), pp 120-133. (Czech)

Dictionary and encyclopedic entries

• J.J. O'Connor, E.F. Robertson, "Alfred North Whitehead", The MacTutor History of Mathematics, 2003.
• Andrew David Irvine, "Alfred North Whitehead", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2013.

Links

• Whitehead Research Project