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A commentary on chapter ten of science and the modern. The harvard lectures of alfred north whitehead, 19241925. Presaging by more than half a century most of todays cuttingedge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific. Science and the modern world by alfred north whitehead in science and the modern world, he concerns himself with the interplay betwixt the promise of science in the modern era say, from the time of descartes and the wellknown poetic writings of those who were, themselves, transfixed by it. Alfred north whitehead was born at ramsgate, england, on february 15, 1861. Alfred north whitehead 18611947 was a british mathematician, logician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and the philosophy of science. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, 43 which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.
Presaging by more than half a century most of todays cuttingedge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific discovery. In several of his works, particularly science and the modern world 1925, whitehead studied the history of science and criticized the fundamental assumptions of scientific materialism. These philosophers have attempted to provide comprehensive explanations beyond physics. He enhances his lecture with the addition of chapters on mathematics as an element in the history of thought, religion and science, abstraction, and god. With an academic career that spanned from cambridge to harvard, whitehead wrote extensively on mathematics, metaphysis, and philosophy. Mathematics as an element in the history of thought. Presents whitehead s lectures at harvard during the 19245 academic year.
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Alfred north whitehead, english mathematician and philosopher, was born in england in 1861, schooled at home until age 14, and graduated at trinity college, cambridge in 1884. Internet archive contributor internet archive language english. A merely wellinformed man is the most useless bore on gods earth. Science and the modern world pdf free download epdf. 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 centuries science dominates western culture. Alfred north whitehead 18611947 was a british mathematician and philosopher. In 1925, alfred north whiteheads science and the modern world introduced the. Alfred north whitehead, english mathematician and philosopher who collaborated with bertrand russell on principia mathematica 1910 and, from the mid1920s, taught at harvard university and developed a comprehensive metaphysical theory. Alfred north whitehead, precursor of theories of self. It explores and analyzes the relevance of whitehead s thought in dialogue with contemporary philosophies in order to unfold his philosophy of organism and its consequences for our time and in relation to emerging philosophical thought.