Whitehead at Harvard, 1925-1927
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-5010-9 (ISBN)
Long-standing theories about Whitehead’s early philosophical efforts can now be challenged or overturned. In this volume, leading Whitehead scholars address the ways in which the 1925-1927 Harvard lectures challenge or confirm previous understanding of Whitehead’s published works, trace the development of Whitehead’s thought in the crucial period after Science and the Modern World but before Process and Reality, examine Whitehead’s singular guest lecture in Richard Clarke Cabot’s seminar in social ethics – a topic which Whitehead usually avoided – and elucidate how these lectures be seen as a bridge between his mathematical and philosophical work.
Joseph Petek is the Director of Research and Publication of the Whitehead Research Project of Gonzaga University and Executive Editor of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead. He has co-edited three books on Whitehead: Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism (2017), Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925 (2020), and The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925–1927: General Metaphysical Problems of Science (2021). His latest book is Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead (2022), which examines the significance of Whitehead's Harvard lectures and other previously unknown archival materials. Brian G. Henning is Professor of Philosophy and of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Gonzaga University and Executive Director of the Whitehead Research Project. Dr. Henning holds a M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University. He is author or editor of fifteen books and more than thirty-five articles and chapters. His 2005 book, The Ethics of Creativity (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the 2007 Findlay Book Prize from the Metaphysical Society of America for the best work of metaphysics published between 2001 and 2006. He is the Founder and General Editor of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Assessing and Defining Whitehead's Harvard Lectures
Part I: The role of biology in Whitehead’s philosophy
1. From a Philosophy of Evolution to a Philosophy of Organism
Paul A. Bogaard
2. Assessing Whitehead’s ‘biological turn’
Philippe Gagnon
3. Whitehead and Biology – A reply to Philippe Gagnon
Dennis Sölch
4. Further Clarifications Concerning ‘Assessing Whitehead’s “biological turn”’
Philippe Gagnon
Part II: Mathematics, Logic, and Symbolism
5. Symbolic cognition of infinity: Using Whitehead’s HL2 to bridge Symbolism and Principia Mathematica
Landon D. C. Elkind
Part III: Whitehead’s Philosophical Context
6. The dipolar character of being in Plato and Whitehead
Daniel A. Dombrowski
7. The emergence of organic empiricism in Whitehead’s Harvard lectures: relational stubbornness and the being of practice
Christian Frigerio
8. Reason in action: Dewey’s place in Whitehead’s Harvard lectures (1925–27)
Maria Regina Brioschi
Part IV: Metaphysical Reflections
9. Whitehead’s ethics: Fill in the blanks
Milan Stürmer and Daniel Bella
10. Whitehead on solidarity: From the concrete to the system
Alessia Giacone
11. Standing firm in the flux: On Whitehead’s eternal objects
Matthew David Segall
12. Whitehead’s 1925–27 view of function and time
Ronny Desmet
Notes on Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 black and white illustration |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-5010-1 / 1399550101 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-5010-9 / 9781399550109 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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