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- Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 378 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
- Summary
- "In these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead's first year of philosophy lectures. Do these lectures challenge or confirm previous understandings of Whitehead's published works? What is revealed about the development of Whitehead's thought in the crucial period after London but before the publication of Science and the Modern World? What should we make of concepts and terms that were introduced in these lectures but were never incorporated into subsequent publications? Also included in this volume is the text of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, recently gifted to the Critical Edition of Whitehead, allowing for a clearer understanding of Whitehead's plans and goals for his first course of lectures in philosophy than has previously been possible."--
- Uniform Title
- Whitehead at Harvard (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Preface : a brief history of the critical edition of Whitehead / Brian G. Henning -- Introduction : tales from the Whitehead mines - on Whitehead, his students and the challenges of editing the critical edition / Joseph Petek -- First lecture : September, 1924 / Alfred North Whitehead -- Examining Whitehead's 'first lecture : September, 1924' / Paul A. Bogaard -- Whitehead and his philosophy of evolution / Paul A. Bogaard -- Some clarifications on evolution and time / Maria-Teresa Teixeira -- Whitehead's biological turn / Dennis Sölch -- Quanta and corpuscles : the influence of quantum mechanical ideas on Whitehead's transitional philosophy in light of The Harvard Lectures / Gary L. Herstein -- From physics to philosophy, and from continuity to atomicity / Ronny Desmet -- Whitehead's highly speculative lectures on quantum theory / Ronny Desmet -- On Herstein's 'quanta and corpuscles' / Ronny Desmet -- Reply to Desmet / Gary L. Herstein -- Whitehead and Kant at Copenhagen / Jason Bell, Seshu Iyengar -- Whitehead's early Harvard period, Hartshorne and the transcendental project / George W. Shields -- Footnotes to Plato / Aljoscha Berve -- Diagrams and myths / George Allan -- How 'eternity' got 'thrown forward' into 'perishing' / Jude Jones -- Uncovering a 'new' Whitehead / George R. Lucas, Jr. -- Whitehead in class : do the Harvard-Radcliffe course notes change how we understand Whitehead's thought? / Brian G. Henning.
- LCCN
- 2020288251
- OCLC
- ssj0002280376
- Title
Whitehead at Harvard [electronic resource] : 1924-1925 / edited by Brian G Henning and Joseph Petek.
- Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1900-1999
- Added Author
Henning, Brian G.
Petek Joseph.