Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925

Brian G. Henning; Joseph Petek

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925

Brian G. Henning and Joseph Petek

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474459426

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Examines the significance of The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924–1925

Responds to the question of whether the Harvard Lectures and The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead project change our understanding of the meaning or development of Whitehead’s thought
Written by international experts on Whitehead – including Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Gary Herstein and Jude Jones – who address a range of different aspects of the scholarly implications of the Lectures
The first monograph responding to the Critical Edition: has the potential to establish the tone and influence the direction of subsequent work
Includes the text of Whitehead’s first lecture at Harvard, recently gifted to the Critical Edition
Contributes towards setting scholarly conventions for how to cite and reference the volumes of the Critical Edition

In these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead’s first year of philosophy lectures. Do these lectures challenge or confirm previous understandings of Whitehead’s published works? What is revealed about the development of Whitehead’s thought in the crucial period after London but before the publication of Science and the Modern World? What should we make of concepts and terms that were introduced in these lectures but were never incorporated into subsequent publications?

Also included in this volume is the text of Whitehead’s first lecture at Harvard, recently gifted to the Critical Edition of Whitehead, allowing for a clearer understanding of Whitehead’s plans and goals for his first course of lectures in philosophy than has previously been possible.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Preface: A Brief History of the Critical Edition of Whitehead Brian G. Henning Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Tales from the Whitehead Mines – On Whitehead, His Students and the Challenges of Editing the Critical Edition Joseph Petek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: The First Lecture
1. First Lecture: September, 1924 Alfred North Whitehead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
2. Examining Whitehead’s ‘First Lecture: September, 1924’ Paul A. Bogaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Part II: The Fitness of the Environment
3. Whitehead and His Philosophy of Evolution Paul A. Bogaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
4. Some Clarifications on Evolution and Time Maria-Teresa Teixeira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5. Whitehead’s Biological Turn Dennis Sölch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Part III: Physics and Relativity
6. Quanta and Corpuscles: The Infl uence of Quantum Mechanical Ideas on Whitehead’s Transitional Philosophy in Light of The Harvard Lectures Gary L. Herstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7. From Physics to Philosophy, and from Continuity to Atomicity Ronny Desmet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
8. Whitehead’s Highly Speculative Lectures on Quantum Theory Ronny Desmet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
9. On Herstein’s ‘Quanta and Corpuscles’ Ronny Desmet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
10. Reply to Desmet Gary L. Herstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Part IV: Whitehead’s Philosophical Context
11. Whitehead and Kant at Copenhagen Jason Bell and Seshu Iyengar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
12. Whitehead’s Early Harvard Period, Hartshorne and the Transcendental Project George W. Shields Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
13. Footnotes to Plato Aljoscha Berve Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Part V: Metaphysical Reflections
14. Diagrams and Myths George Allan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
15. How ‘Eternity’ Got ‘Thrown Forward’ Into ‘Perishing’ Jude Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Part VI: Reinterpreting Whitehead
16. Uncovering a ‘New’ Whitehead George R. Lucas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
17. Whitehead in Class: Do the Harvard-Radcliffe Course Notes Change How We Understand Whitehead’s Thought? Brian G. Henning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 400
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- Other: 31 B/W illustrations 1 B/W tables
Keywords: Philosophy

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Published: April 5, 2022
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