Alfred North Whitehead
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The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
(Volume III, 1941)
In this volume the unique philosophical contributions and ideas of Alfred North Whitehead are described and critically appraised by some of his greatest philosophical contemporaries and other prominent scholars, eighteen in all. Whitehead's philosophical development is traced in detail from his beginnings as a mathematician to the full maturity of his ultimate metaphysical system and the ripe reflections of one of the most original and thought-provoking octogenarians of all time.
Table of Contents
Alfred North Whitehead: Autobiographical Notes
Alfred North Whitehead
(Replies follow essays)
Victor Lowe: The Development of Whitehead's Philosophy
Willard V. Quine: Whitehead and the Rise of Modern Logic
Filmer S. C. Northrop: Whitehead's Philosophy of Science
Evander Bradley McGilvary: Space-Time, Simple Location, and Prehension
Joseph Needham: A Biologist's View of Whitehead's Philosophy
Percy Hughes: Is Whitehead's Psychology Adequate?
Wilbur Marshall Urban: Whitehead's Philosophy of Language and Its Relation to His Metaphysics
A.D. Ritchie: Whitehead's Defence of Speculative Reason
Arthur E. Murphy: Whitehead and the Method of Speculative Philosophy
William Ernest Hocking: Whitehead on Mind and Nature
Roy Wood Sellars: Philosophy of Organism and Physical Realism
John Goheen: Whitehead's Theory of Value
Bertram Morris: The Art-process and the Aesthetic Fact in Whitehead's Philosophy
J.S. Bixler: Whitehead's Philosophy of Religion
Charles Hartshorne: Whitehead's Idea of God
Paul A. Schilpp: Whitehead's Moral Philosophy
Henry Wyman Holmes: Whitehead's Views on Education
John Dewey: The Philosophy of Whitehead
C.I. Lewis: The Categories of Natural Knowledge
Alfred North Whitehead: Explanatory Note (in two facsimile pages)
Mathematics and The Good
Immortality
Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred North Whitehead (To January 1951)