Research Catalog

Title

The Harvard lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925-1927 : General metaphysical problems of science / edited by Brian G. Henning, Joseph Petek, George Lucas.

Publication

• Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
• Henning, Brian G.
• Petek, Joseph
• Lucas, George R.

Description

lxii, 511 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"The first scholarly edition of critically edited, previously unpublished notes of Whitehead's philosophy lectures from 1925 to 1927. Reproduces more than 170 lectures delivered by Alfred North Whitehead during his 2nd and 3rd years at Harvard. Provides a window into the development of Whitehead's thought in the lead up to the publication of his most significant work, Process and Reality. Reproduces the drawings Whitehead created on the board in class providing new insights into his thinking - invaluable because his published works include no diagrams. For the first time, Whitehead's readers will be able to see the development of his philosophy during the crucial period between the publication of Science and the Modern World and his delivery of the Gifford lectures that would become Process and Reality, as he tests his theories in a classroom setting. These student notes provide the long-missing window into critical developments in Whitehead's thinking during this time. They challenge longstanding speculations about when exactly Whitehead developed some of his most famous metaphysical concepts, and how those concepts are to be properly interpreted against the wider backdrop of his life and thought. Also included is a transcript of the only known lecture Whitehead delivered on the topic of ethics, two mid-year exams given to his students and nearly 2,000 footnotes that provide additional context for the lectures and alternative student accounts of key passages"--

Series Statement

• The Edinburgh critical edition of the complete works of Alfred North Whitehead
• Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. Works. 2021.

Subject

• Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947
• Science > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-443) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Philosophy 3b: Philosophy of Science -- Radcliffe lectures, fall semester 1925 -- Harvard lectures, fall semester 1925 -- Harvard lectures, spring semester 1926 -- Harvard lectures, fall semester 1926 -- Harvard lectures, spring semester 1927 -- Seminaries and guest lectures for 1926-7 -- Philosophy 20h: Seminary in Metaphysics, fall semester 1926 -- Philosophy 20i: Seminary in Logic, spring semester 1927 -- Social Ethics 20a: Fundamentals Underlying the Social Sciences, fall semester 1926 -- Philosophy A: History of Philosophy, spring semester 1927.

Call Number

JFE 21-2844

ISBN

• 9781474416931
• 1474416934

OCLC

1233299308

Title

The Harvard lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925-1927 : General metaphysical problems of science / edited by Brian G. Henning, Joseph Petek, George Lucas.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Edinburgh critical edition of the complete works of Alfred North Whitehead

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. Works. 2021.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-443) and index.

Added Author

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. Works. Selections (Henning). 2021.

Henning, Brian G., editor.

Petek, Joseph, editor.

Lucas, George R., editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781474416955

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2844