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Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead
Born15 Februar 1861(1861-02-15)
Ramsgate, Kent, Unitit Kinrick
Dee'd30 December 1947(1947-12-30) (aged 86)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Unitit States
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1884)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWastren philosophy
SchuilProcess philosophy
Process theology
InstitutionsImperial College London (Varsity o Lunnon)
Harvard Varsity
Main interests
Metaphysics, mathematics
Notable ideas
Process philsophy
Process theology

Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS (15 Februar 1861 – 30 December 1947) wis an Inglis mathematician an philosopher. He is best kent as the definin feegur o the philosophical schuil kent as process philosophy,[17] that the day haes fand application tae a wide variety o disciplines, including ecology, theology, eddication, physics, biology, economics, an psychology, amangst ither areas.

References

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  1. a b c Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), 39.
  2. a b c Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), xii.
  3. Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), xiii.
  4. a b Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), xi.
  5. a b c d Michel Weber and Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 17.
  6. a b c d e John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 174.
  7. a b c d Michel Weber an Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 26.
  8. Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues II, Columbia University Press, 2007, p. vii.
  9. a b John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 164-165.
  10. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 175.
  11. Thomas J. Fararo, "On the Foundations of the Theory of Action in Whitehead and Parsons", in Explorations in General Theory in Social Science, ed. Jan J. Loubser et al. (New York: The Free Press, 1976), chapter 5.
  12. Michel Weber an Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 25.
  13. "Alfred North Whitehead - Biography". European Graduate School. Archived frae the original on 3 September 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  14. Wolfgang Smith, Cosmos and Transcendence: Breaking Through the Barrier of Scientistic Belief (Peru, Illinois: Sherwood Sugden and Company, 1984), 3.
  15. Michel Weber an Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 13.
  16. Charles Birch, "Why Aren't We Zombies? Neo-Darwinism and Process Thought", in Back to Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution, ed. John B. Cobb, Jr., (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008), 252.
  17. David Ray Griffin, Reenchantment Without Supernaturalism: A Process Philosophy of Religion (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001), vii.