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Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy , [ 2 ] which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology , theology , education , physics , biology , economics , and psychology .
One widespread misconception is that the arguably greatest systematic metaphysician of the 20th century, Alfred North Whitehead, was also panpsychism's most significant 20th century proponent. [4] This misreading attributes to Whitehead an ontology according to which the basic nature of the world is made up of atomic mental events, termed ...
Alfred North Whitehead began teaching and writing on process and metaphysics when he joined Harvard University in 1924. [20] In his book Science and the Modern World (1925), Whitehead noted that the human intuitions and experiences of science, aesthetics, ethics, and religion influence the worldview of a community, but that in the last several ...
Process and Reality. Process and Reality is a book by Alfred North Whitehead, in which the author propounds a philosophy of organism, also called process philosophy.The book, published in 1929, is a revision of the Gifford Lectures he gave in 1927–28.
Whitehead took as primitive the topological notion of "contact" between two regions, resulting in a primitive "connection relation" between events. Connection theory C is a first-order theory that distills the first 12 of Whitehead's 31 assumptions [ 9 ] into 6 axioms, C1-C6 . [ 10 ]
Plato's works have been decisively influential for 20th century philosophers such as Alfred North Whitehead and his Process Philosophy; and for the critical realism and metaphysics of Nicolai Hartmann.
The Principia Mathematica is a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics written by the mathematicians Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published in 1910, 1912, and 1913. According to its introduction, this work had three aims:
Alfred North Whitehead once noted: "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." [63] Clear, unbroken lines of influence lead from ancient Greek and Hellenistic philosophers to Early Islamic philosophy, the European Renaissance, and the Age of Enlightenment. [64]