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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. | ||
+ | [[Image:Whitehead_Alfred_North_Process_and_Reality.jpg|thumb|258px|''Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology'', 1929/1978, [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/291f0941a4fc2eed470ae4537549c02a#0.01 ARG]. (Cover of different edition)]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Whitehead_Alfred_North_Modes_of_Thought.jpg|thumb|258px|''Modes of Thought'', 1938/1968, [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/d5e83c995e19dbdcd5ce53fb789c27b0#0.01 ARG]. (Cover of different edition)]] | ||
==Works== | ==Works== | ||
* [http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.chmm/1263316509#toc ''A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications''], Cambridge: The University Press, 1898. | * [http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.chmm/1263316509#toc ''A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications''], Cambridge: The University Press, 1898. | ||
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* ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/794528c5e72a966020a76da3f2ccb8a4#0.01 The Function of Reason]'', Princeton University Press, 1929. | * ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/794528c5e72a966020a76da3f2ccb8a4#0.01 The Function of Reason]'', Princeton University Press, 1929. | ||
− | * ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/291f0941a4fc2eed470ae4537549c02a#0.01 Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology]'', New York: Macmillan, 1929. | + | * ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/291f0941a4fc2eed470ae4537549c02a#0.01 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. Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh during the session 1927-28. |
* ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/0b9b15ccac316505f390c1db471a166d#0.01 Adventures of Ideas]'', Cambridge University Press; New York: Macmillan, 1933. | * ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/0b9b15ccac316505f390c1db471a166d#0.01 Adventures of Ideas]'', Cambridge University Press; New York: Macmillan, 1933. | ||
* ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/thing/534172b5334fe00789215f01 Nature and Life]'', University of Chicago Press, 1934. | * ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/thing/534172b5334fe00789215f01 Nature and Life]'', University of Chicago Press, 1934. | ||
− | * ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/d5e83c995e19dbdcd5ce53fb789c27b0#0.01 Modes of Thought]'', New York: Macmillan, 1938. | + | * ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/d5e83c995e19dbdcd5ce53fb789c27b0#0.01 Modes of Thought]'', New York: Macmillan, 1938. Six lectures delivered in Wesleyan College, Massachussetts, and two lectures in the University of Chicago. |
* ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/thing/534173b4334fe0078b215f14 Essays in Science and Philosophy]'', New York: Philosophical Library, 1947. | * ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/thing/534173b4334fe0078b215f14 Essays in Science and Philosophy]'', New York: Philosophical Library, 1947. | ||
* ''The Wit and Wisdom of Whitehead'', ed. A.H. Johnson, Boston: Beacon Press, 1947. | * ''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. | + | * ''A.N. Whitehead: An Anthology'', eds. F.S.C. Northrop and M.W. Gross, Cambridge University Press; New York: Macmillan, 1953. [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1133685W] |
==Literature== | ==Literature== |
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February 15, 1861 Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet, Kent, England |
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December 30, 1947 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | (aged 86)
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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.
Works
- A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications, Cambridge: The University Press, 1898.
- "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; 2nd ed., 1925/27; abridged as Principia Mathematica to *56, Cambridge University Press, 1962.
- An Introduction to Mathematics, London: Williams and Norgate, 1911.
- The Organisation of Thought, Educational and Scientific, London: Williams & Norgate, 1917.
- An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, 1919.
- The Concept of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920; repr., Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2004.
- The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science, Cambridge University Press, 1922.
- Science and the Modern World, Cambridge University Press, 1925.
- Religion in the Making, New York: Macmillan, 1926.
- 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.
- Symbolismus, jeho význam a účin, trans. Vlastimil Zuska, 1997. (Czech)
- The Aims of Education and Other Essays, New York: Macmillan, 1929; repr. 1959. Selection of lectures delivered between 1912 and 1928.
- The Function of Reason, Princeton University Press, 1929.
- 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. Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh during the session 1927-28.
- Adventures of Ideas, Cambridge University Press; New York: Macmillan, 1933.
- Nature and Life, University of Chicago Press, 1934.
- Modes of Thought, New York: Macmillan, 1938. Six lectures delivered in Wesleyan College, Massachussetts, and two lectures in the University of Chicago.
- Essays in Science and Philosophy, New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
- 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. [1]
Literature
- 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. [2] (French) Review: Weber (1994, EN).
- "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.
- Isabelle Stengers, Penser avec Whitehead. Une libre et sauvage création de concepts, Paris: Seuil, 2002, 582 pp. (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.
- Configurations 13(1): "Whitehead Now", eds. Steven Meyer and Elizabeth Wilson, Winter 2005. [3]
- 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.
- 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. [4] (Slovak) Review: Chabada (2010), Spišiaková (2011).
- 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. [5], Chapter 4.
- 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.