Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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. [1] (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. [2]
• 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. [3] (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. [4], 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.

Links

• Whitehead at Wikipedia