Alfred North Whitehead: Essays on His Philosophy by George.
Whitehead, Alfred North(1861-1947) English mathematician and philosopher who collaborated with Russellon Principia Mathematica(1910-13). After a long career in mathematics at Cambridge and London, Whitehead accepted a position in philosophy at Harvard in 1924. he developed an abstract methodology through which to propose a comprehensive.
Also in the Preface Whitehead also gives his views on the nature on mathematics and the philosophy of mathematics:- Mathematics in its widest signification is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning. The reasoning is formal in the sense that the meaning of propositions forms no part of the investigation.
The philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead puts ecological relations at the center of things and challenges modern culture to rethink its most fundamental assumptions.. Whitehead called his magnum opus, Process and Reality, an essay in cosmology. Cosmology, in his understanding, offers a comprehensive view of the totality of things, including.
Includes essays on various topics relating to Whitehead's thought, such as his view of God, metaphysics of process, and interpretation of creativity. Hartshorne, Charles. Whitehead's Philosophy.
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Alfred North Whitehead was a British-American philosopher, physicist and mathematician who worked in logic, mathematics, philosophy of science and metaphysics. His best known work in mathematics is the Principia Mathematica which he wrote with Bertrand Russell. Whitehead did most of his work in mathematics while at Cambridge (UK) from 1884 to 1910.
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