The Essays and Articles of Alfred North Whitehead, 1886-1916
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3120-7 (ISBN)
This volume is the first authoritative, chronologically ordered, critically edited, and corrected collection of Alfred North Whitehead’s published and unpublished essays and articles from 1886 until 1916, making it the scholarly standard for researching and referencing these essays.
It includes papers published in academic journals as well as previously unknown essays, ranging from mathematics to physics through to education.
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. 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. Robert J. Valenza is Dengler-Dykema Professor of Mathematics and the Humanities at Claremont McKenna College, USA.
Abbreviations
General introduction
Chronology for Alfred North Whitehead
Published works of Alfred North Whitehead
Introduction to The Essays and Articles of Alfred North Whitehead, 1886–1916
1886. A Celebrity at Home: The Clerk of the Weather
1886. Davy Jones
1888. On the Motion of Viscous Incompressible Fluids
1888. A Visitation
1888. Second Approximations to Viscous Fluid Motion
1891. The Fens as Seen from Skates
1896. On Ideals: With Reference to the Controversy Concerning the Admission of Women to Degrees in the University
1898. The Geodesic Geometry of Surfaces in Non-Euclidean Space
1899. Sets of Operations in Relation to Groups of Finite Order
1901. Memoir on the Algebra of Symbolic Logic (Part I)
1901. Memoir on the Algebra of Symbolic Logic (Part II)
1902. On Cardinal Numbers
1903. The Logic of Relations, Logical Substitution Groups, and Cardinal Numbers
1904. Theorems on Cardinal Numbers
1905. Note in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale
1906. On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World
1906. Liberty and the Enfranchisement of Women
1910. Non-Euclidean Geometry
1910. Axioms of Geometry
1910. The Philosophy of Mathematics
1911. Mathematics
1911. The Place of Elementary Mathematics in a Liberal Education
1913. The Principles of Mathematics in Relation to Elementary Teaching
1913. Presidential Address to the London Branch of the Mathematical Association
1916. Space, Time, and Relativity
1916. The Aims of Education—A Plea for Reform
1916. La Théorie Relationniste de L’Espace (The Relational Theory of Space)
1916. The Organisation of Thought
Textual Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead |
| Zusatzinfo | 29 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-3120-4 / 1399531204 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-3120-7 / 9781399531207 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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