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Alfred Northerly Whitehead, OM (February 15 1861, Ramsgate, Kent, UK – December 30 1947, Cambridge, MA) was a British-U.s. philosopher, physicist, and mathematician who worked in logic, mathematics, philosophy of science and metaphysics. His better known function around math is the Principia Mathematica which he wrote with Bertrand Russell.

Whitehead did virtually all of his act within math patch at Cambridge (UK) from 1884 to 1910. A next phase of his career, at London (University College London and Imperial College London) from 1910 to 1924, dealt with philosophies of science & education. Within 1924 he moved to Harvard University for the last phase. When there, Whitehead is mayhap virtually all swell known for conceiving process philosophy. He was invited to give a Gifford Lectures for 1927 at the University of Edinburgh, which resulted in the formidable but respected book Process and Reality. Run philosophy was late developed into process theology by theologian/philosophers Charles Hartshorne, John B Cobb, Jr, and David Ray Griffin. Run theology occurs as way of understanding God and the universe found to be profitable by a few within Christian & Jewish faiths. It has been uncovered compatible by others too. Whitehead's rejection of mind-body dualism is similar to elements in oriental faith traditions like Buddhism.

Around physics his best known act was the theory of gravity that competed with Einstein's general relativity for many decades. Whitehead's theory received less attention than Einstein's, and was usually discredited by 1972 with a comparison of experimental & foreseen variability of the constant of gravitation G. Watch [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~sn2y-tnk/tanaka_4_4.htm A Comparison with Einstein's Theory], or even Clifford May's book, Theory & Experiment around Gravitational Physics, Cambridge University Click 1993 (ISBN 0521439736 ).

Whitehead's political views were, about, libertarian without the label. He wrote: "Now the intercourse between individuals and between social groups takes one of two forms, force or persuasion. Commerce is the great example of intercourse by way of persuasion. War, slavery, and governmental compulsion exemplify the reign of force."

Books
Alfred Northward Whitehead & Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica to *56, (originally 1910), Cambridge University Click, Second edition of abridged vol. Ace, 2002 softback, ISBN 0521626064 The North Whitehead, Introduction To Math, (orig. 1911), Oxford University Click, 1990 paperback book, 191 web sites, ISBN 0195002113 A North Whitehead, The Construct of Nature and severity, (orig. public house. 1920), (A Tarner Lectures delivered at Trinity College around November 1919 in philosophy of science), Cambridge University Click 1964, Prometheus Books, 2004 softback book, 208 web sites, ISBN 1591022142 The North Whitehead, Science & a Present times, (orig. 1925), Talcott Parsons (prolusion), Yours free! Click (Simon & Schuster), 1997 paperback, 212 pages, ISBN 0684836394 The North Whitehead, Religion in the Making, (orig. 1926), Future Our contries Library, reprint 1974, ISBN 0452007232, Fordham University Click, 1996 hardback sustaining Judith The. Jones introduction, 256 places , ISBN 0823216454; paperback book, 175 web sites, ISBN 0823216462 The North Whitehead, Symbolism, Its Meaning & Burden: Barbour-Home Lectures, University of Virginia, 1927, Fordham University Click, 1985, soft-cover, 88 places, ISBN 082321138X A North Whitehead, The Aims of Education & More Essays, (orig. 1929), Free streaming Click, 1985 softback, ISBN 0029351804 The North Whitehead, Run & Reality: An Essay inside Cosmology, (orig. 1929), David Ray Griffon & Donald W. Sherburne (editors), Free Click, 1979 paper-back book, ISBN 0029345707 The North Whitehead, Work of Cause, (orig. 1929), Beacon Click, 1971 soft-cover book, ISBN 0807015733 The North Whitehead, Escapade of Ideas, (orig. 1933), Absolutely free! Click, 1967 paper-back book, 307 places, ISBN 0029351707 The North Whitehead, Modes of Thought, (orig. 1938), Free streaming Click, 1968 soft-cover book, 179 web sites, ISBN 002935210X The North Whitehead, Dialogues of Alfred N Whitehead, Lucien Price (editor), Sir Ross David (introduction), (orig. 1954), Greenwood Click Reprint, 1977 hardcover, 396 places, ISBN 0837193419; David R. Godine Publisher edition, Caldwell Titcomb (forward), 200One paper-back book, 385 web sites, ISBN 1-56792-129-9

MacTutor History of Mathematics: Alfred Whitehead
Biography of this logician and philosopher by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson. Traces the relationship between his private life and his writings.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Alfred North Whitehead
Article by A. D. Irvine. Includes picture, chronology, bibliographies of primary and secondary sources.

The Japan Internet Center for Process Studies
Information about process metaphysics and A. N. Whitehead. Includes an extensive "contextual index" to Whitehead's seminal Process and Reality.

Alfred North Whitehead -- Philosopher for the Muddleheaded
A laudatory essay by Richard Lubbock, expounding the value of Whitehead's ideas for Western thought.

Malaspina Great Books: Alfred North Whitehead
Concise biography of this noted 20th-century thinker, with descriptions of the doctrines of process philosophy and process theology.

Glossary of Whitehead Terminology
A resource for beginning students of Whitehead's writings.

Australasian Association for Process Thought
A society dedicated to the tradition begun by Whitehead and Hartshorne. Includes conference notices, discussion papers and some biographical information.

Everything Is Permuted
Covers the process philosophy of A N Whitehead, including essays, links, conferences and related news, and a quick introduction to Whitehead's thought.


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