ABSTRACT

This is Volume X of seventeen in a collection on Metaphysics. Originally published in 1994, this text looks at the relevance of Alfred North Whitehead with a collection of philosophical essays on his ideas. He was a scientist-a mathematician and physicist. Then, on the eve of his retirement as professor of applied mathematics in the University of London, at the age of 63, he commenced his second career, as professor of philosophy in Harvard University.

chapter I|45 pages

Some Uses of Reason

chapter II|13 pages

Sketch of a Philosophy

chapter IV|19 pages

Whitehead on the Uses of Language

chapter V|24 pages

Time, Value, and the Self

chapter VI|21 pages

Form and Actuality

chapter VII|24 pages

The Approach to Metaphysics

chapter X|25 pages

Aesthetic Perception

chapter XII|16 pages

History and Objective Immortality

chapter XIII|18 pages

Whitehead's Empiricism