Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) has made an enormous impact upon philosophical thinking. His work continues to fascinate, and occasionally to exasperate, Whitehead's 'Principia Mathematica' (jointly offered with Russell) is crucial to an understanding of recent philosophy of logic and of mathematics. Whitehead's metaphysics has proved formidably difficult yet stimulating. With his ideas on God he fathered a major school of modern theology.
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Part of a series of studies of contemporary philosophers, this volume focuses on Alfred North Whitehead.
Whitehead and the Rise of Modern Logic, W.V. Quine; Whitehead's Philosophy of Science, F.S.C. Northrop; Space-Time, Simple Location, and Prehension, E.B. McGilvary; A Biologist's View of Whitehead's Philosophy, Joseph Needham; Whitehead's Philosophy of Language and Its Relation to His Metaphysics, W.B. Urban; Whitehead's Defence of Speculative Reason, A.D. Ritchie; Whitehead and the Method of Speculative Philosophy, Arthur E. Murphy; Whitehead on Mind and Nature, W.E. Hocking; Philosophy of Organism and Physical Realism, R.W. Sellars; Whitehead's Philosophy of Religion, J.S. Bixler; Whitehead's Idea of God, Charles Hartshorne; Whitehead's Moral Philosophy, P.A. Schilpp; Whitehead's Views on Education, H.W. Holmes; The Philosophy of Whitehead, John Dewey; The Categories of Natural Knowledge, C.I. Lewis; The Philosopher's Summary, Alfred North Whitehead.
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ISBN
9780812691320
Published
1999-02-18
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.; Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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1088 gr
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228 mm
Width
152 mm
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UU, UP, 05
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Engelsk
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816