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Alfred north whitehead, english mathematician and philosopher who collaborated with bertrand russell on principia mathematica 1910 and, from the mid1920s, taught at harvard university and developed a comprehensive metaphysical theory. Science and the modern world 1925 was whiteheads first metaphysical work, and in a sense a forerunner to his more elaborated philosophy in process and reality. Presaging by more than half a century most of todays cuttingedge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific discovery. Show more includes transcriptions of the lecture notes, a chronology, over 300 line drawings of whiteheads blackboard sketches, a bibliography of referenced works and an index to the lectures.
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The fallacy of misplaced concreteness fmc is a notion central to his analysis, both of the process of inquiry and to the general sustainability of quality of life. Whiteheads first work in process philosophy, science and the modern world, in order to. This dualism between consciousness and cosmos is the fatal. This is not an injunction about how modern people ought to think and speak but veblens description of how we do think and speak. A must for all students of historiography, theology, or philosphy. Mathematics as an element in the history of thought. Science and the modern world by alfred north whitehead. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, whitehead published a unique series of groundbreaking philosophical works such as science and the modern world, process and reality, adventures of ideas, and modes of thought. The fullest general statement of max webers sociological theory to appear in any of his writings, the theory of social and economic organization is an introduction to webers ambitious comparitive study of the sociological and institutional foundations of the modern economic and social order. In science and the modern world, alfred north whitehead 19251953 critically discusses the historical development of science and its larger impact on our civilization and culture today. Science and the modern world lowell lectures, 1925 whitehead, alfred north on. An illustration of a computer application window wayback machine an illustration of an open book. Andrews fellow 01 trinity the university of cambridge and late professor ot philosophy in harvard university.
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