Alfred North Whitehead

Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical and cultural context of scientific discovery. Taking readers through the history of modern science, Whitehead shows how cultural history has affected science over the ages in relation to such major intellectual themes as romanticism, relativity, quantum theory, religion, and movements for social progress.

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.

Cambridge Press, 1922: Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints

This 1922 book forms the follow up volume to The Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919) and The Concept of Nature (1920). Whitehead puts forward an alternative theory of relativity, which goes against the heterogeneity of Einstein's later theories in deducing that 'our experience requires and exhibits a basis in uniformity'.

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) has made an enormous impact upon philosophical thinking. His work continues to fascinate.

This book from The Library of Living Philosophers includes:
Whitehead's Autobiography
19 Critical Essays
The Philosopher's Summary
Whitehead's Bibliography

By Alfred North Whitehead
The Macmillan Co., 1927. Fordham University Press, 1985

This book presents Whitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant in its most vivid and direct form. Written in a style devoid of the metaphysical intricacies of his later publications, this work makes both Whitehead's theory of perception and his more general insights into the function of symbols in human culture and society accessible to the scholarly community.

From Whitehead's preface: "This book is in fact a study of the concept of civilization, and an endeavor to understand how it is that civilized beings arise. One point, emphasized throughout, is the importance of Adventure for the promotion and preservation of civilizations."

This is the third and final book, which along with Process and Reality and Science in the Modern World, explains Whitehead's "philosophy of organism."