| Alfred North Whitehead |
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| Birth | 15 February 1861 ( Ramsgate , UK )
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| Deaths | 30 December 1947 ( Cambridge , USA )
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| School / tradition | speculative empiricism |
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| Main interests | Metaphysics , theology , epistemology , logic , mathematics , physics |
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| Major works | Minutes and reality |
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| Influenced by | Plato , Spinoza , Leibniz , James , Frege , Bergson |
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| Influenced | Russell , Deleuze |
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Alfred North Whitehead ( 1 861 - 1,947 ) was a philosopher , logician and mathematician UK.
/ / Biography
Whitehead has taken some of his studies at Trinity College (Cambridge) , where he belonged to the secret society of the Cambridge Apostles , as Bertrand Russell , GE Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
His first major book focuses on math , A Treatise of Universal Algebra (1898) and proposes to find a unit in the algebra as they sought unity in the various non-Euclidean geometry ( Hilbert , The foundations of geometry ). It is close to Russell who was his student and both publish the Principia Mathematica. But gradually he moved away from logicism and move towards the philosophy of nature (An Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919), The Concept of Nature (1920). In The Principles of Relativity (1922) it discusses critical theory Einstein of gravity and extends to the whole process of reality. His mind, part of mathematics, is moving towards a metaphysics in which the idea of process, Process and Reality (1929), holds a prominent place. But it's not just a flow event for the world also implies the continuity found in objects, whether sensitive or eternal. It includes the many entities that s 'update by searching for their own satisfaction.
Whitehead finds the spirit of philosophies like those of Spinoza (causa sui) or Leibniz (to become independent of monads). God acts in the world in a way as immanent is the efficient cause of the updating entities but so as transcendent as it also acts by way of finality.
The originality of Whitehead's thought is that it draws on different sciences such as mathematics (the idea of vector algebra and multiplicity), physics, the ethics , theology and exceeds the idea of philosophy divided into specialties, logic, epistemology , moral philosophy, political philosophy, etc.. His metaphysical joined on many points that of the great philosophies of the seventeenth century and also engages with ancient philosophy, that of Plato and Aristotle but also that of the Stoics which he found the inspiration that combines logic and physics ethics.
It is considered the founder of process theology (or theology of the creative dynamism of God) with John B. Cobb , Charles Hartshorne and Paul Tillich. It is a major initiator of the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein Bibliography - A Treatise on Universal Algebra (1898)
- On Mathematical Concepts Of The Material World (1906)
- The Axioms of Projective Geometry (1906)
- The Axioms of Descriptive Geometry (1907)
- Principia Mathematica (with Bertrand Russell ) (1910, 1912, 1913)
- An Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
- An Enquiry Concerning The Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919)
- The Concept of Nature (1920)
- The Principle of Relativity with Application to Physical Science (1922)
- Science and the Modern World, Revised Edition - In French: Science and the Modern World (1925)
- Religion in the Making (1926)
- Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect (1927)
- The Aims of Education and Other Essays (1929)
- The Function of Reason (1929)
- Process and Reality - In French: Minutes and Reality (1929)
- Adventures of Ideas - In French: Adventures of Ideas (1933)
- Nature and Life (1934)
- Modes of Thought (1938)
- Essays in Science and Philosophy (1947)
French translations
- The function of reason and Other Essays, pref. P. Devaux , trans. P. Devaux , E. Griffin & N. Thyssen-Rutten, Paris, Payot, coll. "Science Library", 1969, 226 p.
Contains a translation test: Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect (1927), The Function of Reason (1929), Nature and Life (1934).
- Modes of thought, intr. G. Durand, trans. H. Vaillant, Paris, Vrin, coll. "Analysis and Philosophy, 2004, 201 p.
- The concept of nature, pref. and trans. J. Douchement, Paris, Vrin, 1998, ed. Pocket 2006, 256 p.
- The Evolution of Religion, Paris, Aubier-Montaigne, 1939.
- Adventures of ideas, Paris, Le Cerf, 1993.
- Science and the Modern World, Paris, Editions du Rocher, 1994, and Payot, 1930.
- Minutes and reality, Paris, Gallimard, 1995.
- "Science and the Modern World," complete translation by Henri Vaillant, reread and introduced by Jean-Marie Breuvart, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster ontos verlag, Chromatic Whiteheadian IV, 2006. (247 p., ISBN 3-938793-10-4 )
- "The principles of natural knowledge," Translation of Henri Vaillant read by Sylviane Schwer, Louvain-la-Neuve, Chromatik Publishing, 2007. (978-2-930517-00-1, p. 296)
- "Immortality", preceded by "Autobiographical Notes" and followed by "The Mathematics and the Good," novel and complete translation of Henry Vaillant, reread and prefaced by Guillaume Durand, Cecile Default Publishing, "The thing to believe", Nantes , April 2008. Nonfiction.fr on Review
- Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in gestation Comments
- Jean Wahl , Into the concrete. Studied history of contemporary philosophy, Paris, Vrin, 1932
- Bertrand Saint-Sernin, Whitehead. A universe in test, Paris, Vrin, 2000
- Isabelle Stengers , Thinking with Whitehead. A free and wild creation of concepts, Paris, Seuil, 2002
- Michael Weber , Dialectic of intuition in Whitehead, Frankfurt / Paris ontos verlag, 2004.
- Didier Debaise, A speculative empiricism. Minutes Playing and Reality, Paris, Vrin, 2006
- Gilbert Durand , events to objects. The method of extensive abstraction from Alfred North Whitehead, preface by Michel Malherbe, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster ontos Verlag, 2007.
- Xavier Verley, speculative philosophy of Whitehead ontos Verlag, 2007
- Lareymondie Marc Lacoste, A philosophy for quantum physics: An essay on the non-separability and cosmology of AN Whitehead, L'Harmattan, 2006
- Philippe Devaux , Whitehead's cosmology. Volume I, The Whiteheadian Epistemology, edited by Thibaut Donck and Michael Weber, Foreword by Paul Gochet , Louvain-la-Neuve, Chromatik Publishing, 2007. (978-2-930517-01-8).
- Michael Weber , The Ordeal of philosophy. Essay on the philosophical foundations of praxis, Louvain-la-Neuve, Chromatik Publishing, 2008.
- Michael Weber , Educate (to) anarchy. Essay on the philosophical implications of praxis, Louvain-la-Neuve, Chromatik Publishing, 2008.
- Chul Chun: Kreativitt und der Welt beim frhen Relativitt Whitehead, Alfred North Whitehead frhe Naturphilosophie (1915-1922) - eine Rekonstruktion, mit einem Vorwort von Michael Welker , Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchen Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7887-2352 - 1
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