The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924-1925: Philosophical Presuppositions of Science

ISBN-13: 9781474401845 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 624 str.

Bell Jason and Bogaa; Paul A. Bogaard

Opis

Beginning in September of 1924, Alfred North Whitehead presented a regular course of 85 lectures which concluded in May of 1925. These represent the first ever philosophy lectures he gave and capture him working out the philosophical implications of the remarkable turns physics had taken in his lifetime. This volume finally recreates these lectures by transcribing notes by W. P. Bell, W. E. Hocking and Louise Heath taken at the time - many of which have only recently been discovered and including hundreds of sketches of Whitehead's blackboard diagrams. This is a unique insight into the evolution of Whitehead's thought during the months when he was drafting his seminal work, Science and the Modern World.

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General Introduction to the Critical Edition; Editorial Principles to the Critical Edition; Acknowledgements for the Critical Edition; Chronology for Alfred North Whitehead and his Published Works; INTRODUCTION to Volume One: “Philosophical Presuppositions of Science”: EMERSON HALL LECTURES: 1924-1925: First Semester: Phil 3b Lectures: Lecture 1 - 42 transcriptions of Bell & Hocking notes; Second Semester: Phil 3b Lectures: Lecture 43 - 85 transcriptions of Bell & Hocking notes; RADCLIFFE LECTURES: 1924-1925: First Semester: Phil 3b Lectures: Lectures 1 – 42 transcriptions of Heath notes; Second Semester: Phil 3b Lectures: Lectures 43 – 84 transcriptions of Heath notes; GRADUATE SEMINARY IN METAPHYSICS, Phil 20h: October transcriptions of Hocking notes; APPENDIX Sample scans of original handwritten notes; INDEX.