Whitehead at Harvard, 1925-1927 / edited by Joseph Petek and Brian G. Henning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petek, Joseph, editor.

Henning, Brian G., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Science--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Science.

Science--Philosophy.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Long-standing theories about Whitehead’s early philosophical efforts can now be challenged or overturned. In this volume, leading Whitehead scholars address the ways in which the 1925-1927 Harvard lectures challenge or confirm previous understanding of Whitehead’s published works, trace the development of Whitehead’s thought in the crucial period after Science and the Modern World but before Process and Reality, examine Whitehead’s singular guest lecture in Richard Clarke Cabot’s seminar in social ethics – a topic which Whitehead usually avoided – and elucidate how these lectures be seen as a bridge between his mathematical and philosophical work"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Introduction : Assessing and defining Whitehead’s Harvard lectures / Joseph Petek

From a philosophy of evolution to a philosophy of organism / Paul A. Bogaard

Assessing Whitehead’s ‘biological turn’ / Philippe Gagnon

Whitehead and biology – A reply to Philippe Gagnon / Dennis Sölch

Further clarifications concerning ‘Assessing Whitehead’s “biological turn”’ / Philippe Gagnon

Symbolic cognition of infinity : Using Whitehead’s HL2 to bridge Symbolism and Principia Mathematica / Landon D. C. Elkind

The dipolar character of being in Plato and Whitehead / Daniel A. Dombrowski

The emergence of organic empiricism in Whitehead’s Harvard lectures : Relational stubbornness and the being of practice / Christian Frigerio

Reason in action : Dewey’s place in Whitehead’s Harvard lectures (1925–1927) / Maria Regina Brioschi

Whitehead’s ethics : Fill in the blanks / Milan Stürmer and Daniel Bella

Whitehead on solidarity : From the concrete to the system / Alessia Giacone

Standing firm in the flux : On Whitehead’s eternal objects / Matthew David Segall

Whitehead’s 1925–1927 view of function and time / Ronny Desmet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed October 9, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version: Whitehead at Harvard, 1925-1927

ISBN:

139955011X

9781399550123

1399550128

9781399550116

OCLC:

1528020739

Publisher Number:

CIPO000250343

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license