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, Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3; 2nd ed., 1925/27: Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3; abridged as Principia Mathematica to *56, Cambridge University Press, 1962; 1963: Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3.
• An Introduction to Mathematics, London: Williams and Norgate, 1911. [2]
• 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. [3]
  • El concepto de naturaleza, trans. Jesus Diaz, Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1968. (Spanish)
• The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science, Cambridge University Press, 1922.
• Science and the Modern World, Cambridge University Press, 1925.
  • Veda a moderný svet, Bratislava: Pravda, 1989. (Slovak)
  • A ciência e o mundo moderno, trans. Hermann Herbert Watzlawick, Sao Paulo: SP Paulus, 2006. (Portuguese)
• Religion in the Making, New York: Macmillan, 1926. [4]
• 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]
  • Symbolismus, jeho význam a účin, trans. Vlastimil Zuska, Prague: Panglos, 1998, 92 pp. (Czech)
• The Aims of Education and Other Essays, New York: Macmillan, 1929; repr. 1959; Free Press, 1967. Selection of lectures delivered between 1912 and 1928.
• The Function of Reason, Princeton University Press, 1929. [6] Lectures delivered at Princeton University in March 1929.
  • "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. Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh during the session 1927-28. [7]

• Adventures of Ideas, Cambridge University Press; New York: Macmillan, 1933; 1967.
  • Dobrodružství idejí, Prague: Oikoymenh, 2000. (Czech)
• 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. [8] [9]

• 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. [10]

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), 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.
• 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. [14], Chapter 4.
• Roland Faber, Andrew Goffey (eds.), The Allure of Things: Process and Object in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomsbury, 2014. [15]
• 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. [16]
• 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. [17]

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