Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology

In this set of lectures, Whitehead explains the kind of speculative philosophy - the philosophy of organism - he used to interpret the ideas and problems of civilized thought and shows how it puts the various elements of our experience into a consistent relation to each other. In relating human experience to philosophical problems, he examines a group of seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophers, particularly Descartes, Newton, Locke, Hume, and Kant.