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Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher known for process philosophy. He and Bertrand Russell worked on the Principia Mathematica (1910-1913).
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Reconciling Evolution and Whitehead's Process Philosophy: Is Randomness the Key to Creativity in Nature?
I am somewhat interested in Whitehead's process philosophy and reality.
The following points puzzled me:
How can the survival of the fittest (evolution) be explained through process philosophy?
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"Vector Character" in Whitehead's Process and Reality
In Process and Reality, Alfred North Whitehead discusses the concept of "prehensions" and describes them as having a "vector character." Coming from a physics background, I ...
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Aristotle and the Platonic Footnotes Alluded to by Whitehead
In Process and Reality, Alfred North Whitehead famously states:
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do ...
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What is the meaning of Coherence by Whitehead?
I am just started reading the book Process and Reality. On page 5, He talked about what is the accentual thing we have to keep in mind while building a speculative philosophy.
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What is process philosophy by Alfred North Whitehead?
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I want to know this process philosophy that Alfred North Whitehead is talking about.
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I read some articles and watched some videos on what this philosophy is. But ...
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Formal deduction of Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism
In Process and Reality Whitehead starts off the investigation by giving his categoreal scheme - different types of categories and their derivatives, as well as some axioms. If I understand correctly, ...
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How does Whitehead explain repeated attempts of remembrance/recollection?
In Process and Reality one of the main concepts Whitehead talks about is the symbolic reference. A derivative element of the connection between symbolic type and meaning type of species (in Whitehead'...
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Informative diagram of Whitehead's philosophy?
I've been reading Whitehead's Process and Reality for the past few months, and I now realize that his writing is indeed very much hard to read (Concept of Nature was much easier in comparison). He ...
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What are the characteristics of an event according to Whitehead?
Throughout Concept of Nature Whitehead adds different types of characteristics to his most basic concept - events.
For example, he talks of objects, the situation of the event in space and time, its ...
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Does Whitehead's physics include atoms?
I know that one of the major points of Whitehead is to criticize the atomistic theory of nature and replace it with events. But can an atom exist as part of an event? What role does electron, protons, ...
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What motivated Whitehead to choose "Cogredience"?
I'm not a native english speaker, so I was not familiar with the term "cogredience" when I first saw it in Concept of Nature. frankly, it seems like its a word Whitehead used in a different ...
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For Whitehead, is an event theoretical or ontological?
I'm getting to Whitehead in my reading list, and have started with "Concept of Nature".
Have not finished it yet, but something disturbs me throughout the book (aside from his god-awful ...
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Did Whitehead express his motivation for writing with Russell the Principia Mathematica?
I imagine Bertrand Russell's motivation for participating in the project leading to the Principia Mathematica was an attempt to justify logicism and reject Kant's synthetic a priori, but what was ...
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How did Fitch's opposition to the Russell-Whitehead theory of types turn out since the 1950's?
In a footnote to Appendix C of Frederic Fitch's Symbolic Logic (page 217), Fitch writes about his article, "Self-Reference in Philosophy":
It is reprinted here in order to indicate more fully my ...
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Is there more to Whitehead’s “Age-Spirit” than metaphor?
While reading Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World, I found the following sentence (page 51):
It is only in a period, fortunate both in its opportunities for
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What is the relationship between Al-Ghazali's Occasionalism, Whitehead's occasions and QM?
In 1993, Karen Harding, a philosopher wrote a paper, Causality then and now: Al-Ghazali and QM. She remarked:
In both cases, and contrary to common sense, objects are viewed as having no inherent ...
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Is Whiteheads 'occasions of experience' fundamentally relational?
Shimon Malin writes in Nature Loves to Hide:
According to Whitehead, the ultimate blocks of reality are discrete items which he calls 'throbs of experience', 'occasions of experience', 'actual ...
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Wordsworth & thaumazein
Whitehead, in Science & the Modern World quotes the following from the beginning of Wordsworths Prelude:
Ye presences of Nature in the sky!
And on the earth! Ye visions of the hills!
And souls of ...
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What does Whitehead mean by calling science anti-rational?
In Science and the Modern World, Whitehead writes:
Science has never shaken off the impress of its origin in the historical revolt of the later renaissance. It has remained predominantly an anti-...
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Self determination in non atomistic time?
I am reading the book Perspective in Whitehead's Metaphysics by Stephen David Ross. On page 182 he says, "whiteheads theory of events is atomistic-primarily to allow for self determination, but the ...
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Contradiction, and the Being and Becoming of Mathematics [closed]
Mathematics is rife with contradictions, is shot through with them: the fault-lines lie where theories collide, fade or open up.
Does this disturb the incarnation of mathematics - the Ideal ...
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GUT and TOE as Fallacies of Misplaced Concreteness?
A.N. Whitehead warns in the introduction to Process and Reality, that the “chief error” of Western philosophy is “overstatement.” He states: “the aim at generalization is sound, but the estimate of ...
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Question regarding proof of ❋3.47 in Principia Mathematica by Whitehead and Russell
❋3.03 in the the last step seems unnecessary. Can someone explain to me why 3.03 is listed?
The last step can be written out in full like this:
⊦: p .⊃. q ⊃ r (1)
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Question regarding the proof 3.3 in the Principia Mathematica
As far as I can understand, the key of PM is to make sure there are no leaps and gaps when making inferences. In other words, all the premises and rules of inferences should be explicitly enumerated ...
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Can we do without Necessity?
It appears that necessity is a dead idea that, unfortunately, only philosophers still gush over. The association of epistemological and logical necessity with ontological necessity ran its course ...
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Should Time and Space Serve as Necessary or Contingent modalities of Division in Cosmology?
In the introduction to Process and Reality, Whitehead criticizes the tendency to posit logical or ontological necessity as the primary modes of cosmological explanation. For Whitehead time is a ...
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What is the telos of a proposition?
Whitehead contends in Process and Reality that propositions are “hybrid entities” which act as “lures for feeling.” The famous co-author of Principia Mathematica scolds the traditional conventions of ...
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Cosmological truth and the theory of cosmic epochs
According to Whitehead’s theory of cosmic epochs and extensive continuum, there are material conditions that drive the more general metaphysical descriptions and principles. We only can account for ...
