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Principia Mathematica to *56 (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell
Cambridge University Press, 1997
If you don't know know this book then you don't need it
Let me try to give a balanced review. First this is a monumental work and one of the most influential works of the 20th century. I am not giving it five stars: this book earned them. With that said I don't think is the most influential book of the 20th century because ...
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Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (A Nonpareil Book)
Alfred North Whitehead; Lucien Price
David R Godine, 2001
The Pleasure of Ideas and Good Conversation
I read this as a freshman in college, again years later, and am finishing my latest reading. A pleasure to read, forcing one to think. Some of the ideas are clearly dated, Whitehead being truly of the 19th century, but what he and the other discussants say makes one ...
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Aims of Education
Alfred North Whitehead
Free Press, 1967
Changed my life at age 17 -- Thank you, thank you!
The university that accepted me into its six-year medicine program required that I read this (and other) book(s) during the summer before entering their program.
It changed my life! It helped me to think about what I wanted to get out of formal education, how I ...
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Science and the Modern World
Alfred North Whitehead
Free Press, 1997
CLassic little work in the philosophy of science
Whitehead is widely regarded as a humane philosopher in the best sense of that word--a philosopher able to get across very difficult ideas with a wink and a smile. Also, he has always been commended for his prose style in his more intimate writings, at least in his ...
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Adventures of Ideas
Alfred North Whitehead
Free Press, 1967
Creative Platonist's Perspective on History and Civilization
There are four parts to this text: "Sociological," "Cosmological," "Philosophical," and "Civilization." The first part is a history of how ideas, especially moral ideas, have influenced the progress of civilization. Whitehead is by training mathematician and by ...
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Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28)
Alfred North Whitehead
Free Press, 1979
The Brilliance of Hard Work and Imagination
Early in this century American philosophy made a 'linguistic' turn that determined the direction it would take all the way to the present day. In the spirit of the times, language made its way to the forefront of philosophy, the end result being (among other things) ...
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Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect (New Edition) (Barbour-Page Lectures, University of Virginia, 1927)
Alfred North Whitehead
Fordham University Press, 1985
I was fortunate to find this book.
I must say, I am indebted to Colin Wilson for leading me to this book. I read Beyond the Outsider a few years ago, and immediately afterwards was itching to read this book. A.N Whitehead is a clear and logical thinker. A genius of the 20th century, his idea of the two ...
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The Concept of Nature
Alfred North Whitehead
Cosimo Classics, 2007
Challenging and mind-expanding
This book from 1920 consists of the Tarner Lectures in the philosophy of science and features Whitehead's assessment of the impact of Einstein's theories on nature. He argues for taking events and the process of becoming as the starting points for analysing reality. ...
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The Axioms Of Descriptive Geometry
Alfred North Whitehead
Merchant Books, 2007
An Unabridged Printing, With Text And All Figures Digitally Enlarged: The Formulations Of The Axioms - The Associated Projective Space - Ideal Points - General Theory Of Correspondence - Axioms Of Congruence - Infinitesimal Rotations - The Absolute - Metrical Geometry
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Modes of Thought
Alfred North Whitehead
Fireside, 1968
A book that will change forever how you see the world.
Whitehead wrote clearly and simply about some of the most difficult philosophical ideas. This brief book is perfect for anyone who has ever wondered "How do I know what I know?" It is filled with gems such as "The notion of a mere fact is the triumph of the ...
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A treatise on universal algebra: with applications.
Alfred North Whitehead
Cornell University Library, 1898
This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs collection.
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An Introduction to Mathematics
Alfred North Whitehead
BiblioBazaar, 2008
This distinguished little book is a brisk introduction to a series of mathematical concepts, a history of their development, and a concise summary of how today's reader may use them.
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The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science (Dover Phoenix Editions)
Alfred North Whitehead
Dover Publications, 2004
Why Einstein might be wrong.
It is a delight to have this volume back in print again. For anyone with an interest in Whitehead's philosophy, this is an essential work that requires very little discussion. Whitehead is, here and in all of his work, a marvelous writer. But this is a technical piece, ...
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge
Alfred North Whitehead
Cosimo Classics, 2007
Philosophy of Nature / Philosophy of Science
This is an especially important text in the body of Whitehead's work. It is the first volume in a "triptych" of works Whitehead produced (the others being "The Concept of Nature" and "The Principle of Relativity") that both established Whitehead as a major philosopher, ...
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Religion in the making (Lowell lectures)
Alfred North Whitehead
University Press, 1926
Bare, beautiful spirituality
In his other books, and especially in Process and Reality, Whitehead's prose can be so dense as to discourage all but the most determined readers. But Religion in the Making, while occasionally technical, is Whitehead at his simplest and most elegant. Reading this ...
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