Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS (15 Februar 1861 – 30 December 1947) wis an Inglis mathematician an philosopher. He is best kent as the definin feegur o the philosophical schuil kent as process philosophy,[17] that the day haes fand application tae a wide variety o disciplines, including ecology, theology, eddication, physics, biology, economics, an psychology, amangst ither areas.
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Alfred North Whitehead |
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Born | 15 Februar 1861(1861-02-15) Ramsgate, Kent, Unitit Kinrick |
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Dee'd | 30 December 1947(1947-12-30) (aged 86) Cambridge, Massachusetts, Unitit States |
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Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1884) |
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Era | 20th-century philosophy |
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Region | Wastren philosophy |
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Schuil | Process philosophy Process theology |
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Institutions | Imperial College London (Varsity o Lunnon) Harvard Varsity |
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Main interests | Metaphysics, mathematics |
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Notable ideas | Process philsophy Process theology |
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Influences
Aristotle, [1] Henri Bergson, [2] Francis Herbert Bradley[3] John Dewey, [2] David Hume, [1] William James, [2] Immanuel Kant, [4] Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, [5] John Locke, [4] Isaac Newton, [5] Plato, [1] George Santayana[5]
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Influenced
Wilfred Eade Agar, [6] David Bohm, [6] C. D. Broad, [7] Milič Čapek, [6]Gilles Deleuze, [8] Susanne Langer, [9] Ervin László, [10] Maurice Merleau-Ponty, [7] F. S. C. Northrop, [9] Talcott Parsons, [11] Ilya Prigogine, [7] W. V. O. Quine, [12] Bertrand Russell, [5] B. F. Skinner, [13] Wolfgang Smith, [14] John Lighton Synge, [6] Jules Vuillemin, [7] Conrad Hal Waddington, [6] Michel Weber, [15] Sewall Wright[16]
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Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), 39.
Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), xii.
Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), xiii.
Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), xi.
Michel Weber and Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 17.
John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 174.
Michel Weber an Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 26.
Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues II, Columbia University Press, 2007, p. vii.
John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 164-165.
John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 175.
Thomas J. Fararo, "On the Foundations of the Theory of Action in Whitehead and Parsons", in Explorations in General Theory in Social Science, ed. Jan J. Loubser et al. (New York: The Free Press, 1976), chapter 5.
Michel Weber an Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 25.
Wolfgang Smith, Cosmos and Transcendence: Breaking Through the Barrier of Scientistic Belief (Peru, Illinois: Sherwood Sugden and Company, 1984), 3.
Michel Weber an Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 13.
Charles Birch, "Why Aren't We Zombies? Neo-Darwinism and Process Thought", in Back to Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution, ed. John B. Cobb, Jr., (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008), 252.
David Ray Griffin, Reenchantment Without Supernaturalism: A Process Philosophy of Religion (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001), vii.