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; 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press 1958; 3rd 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.
• The Function of Reason, Princeton University Press, 1929.

• Process and Reality, 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, 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.
• Steven Shaviro, Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics, MIT Press, 2009, 192 pp.
• Nicholas Gaskill, A. J. Nocek (eds.), The Lure of Whitehead, University of Minnesota Press, 2014, 496 pp. [1], 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