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Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.
In his early career Whitehead wrote primarily on mathematics, logic, and physics. His most notable work in these fields is the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910–13), which he co-wrote with former student Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica is considered one of the twentieth century's most important works in mathematical logic, and placed 23rd in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century by Modern Library.
Beginning in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Whitehead gradually turned his attention from mathematics to philosophy of science, and finally to metaphysics. He developed a comprehensive metaphysical system which radically departed from most of western philosophy. Whitehead argued that reality consists of processes rather than material objects, and that processes are best defined by their relations with other processes, thus rejecting the theory that reality is fundamentally constructed by bits of matter that exist independently of one another. Today Whitehead's philosophical works – particularly Process and Reality – are regarded as the foundational texts of process philosophy.
Lecture on the life and process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead by Amy Edelstein held at the University of Pennsylvania. For more information visit: http://amyedelstein.com
A short introduction to the process philosophy & process theology of Alfred North Whitehead (*1861, †1947), containing several photos and 4 speakers, describing some core hypotheses of Whitehead's metaphysics. The speakers are: John B. Cobb, David Ray Griffin, Charles Hartshorne and Rupert Sheldrake. Music by Michael Schramm .
LibriVox recording of The Concept of Nature, by Alfred North Whitehead. In The Concept of Nature, Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception. The idea of objects as 'occasions of experience', arguments against body-mind duality and the search for an all-encompassing 'philosophy of nature' are examined, with specific reference to contemporary (Einstein, with whose theory of relativity he has some complaints) and ancient (Plato, Aristotle) approaches. (Summary by mb)
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Reading from his 1933 book "Adventures of Ideas"
An introductory explanation of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism.
This presentation briefly explores the ways in which Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy can provide one possible metaphysical basis for the practice and perspective of archetypal cosmology. Becca Tarnas is a doctoral student in the Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She also received her MA from CIIS in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program, and her BA from Mount Holyoke College in Environmental Studies and Theater Arts. She is currently writing her doctoral dissertation on the synchronicity between the Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien. She writes regularly on archetypal cosmology and is an editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. Becca’s website is BeccaTarnas.com where she posts he...
My Whitehead article in Philosophy Now magazine: https://philosophynow.org/issues/114/The_Philosophy_of_Organism --- A synopsis of A. N. Whitehead’s metaphysics. Transcript: http://www.philosopher.eu/a-n-whitehead-summary PDF: www.academia.edu/23885796/A_Conspectus_of_A._N._Whiteheads_Metaphysics 'Vertexes of Sentience: Psychedelic Phenomenology under Whitehead's Cosmology' is a chapter in Peter Sjöstedt-H's book Noumenautics: http://psychedelicpress.co.uk/collections/books/products/noumenautics --- The summary of this video is mostly derived from Whitehead's magnum opus, 'Process and Reality', but also draws from: Science and the Modern World Religion in the Making Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect The Function of Reason Adventures of Ideas Modes of Thought ©Peter Sjöstedt-H MMXV Whi...
The ten most beautiful quotes by the great English philosopher and and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead! (1861 - 1947) See all quotes by Alfred North Whitehead at http://www.iperceptive.com/authors/alfred_north_whitehead_quotes.html Enlighten yourself at http://www.iPerceptive.com The music used in this video is "Relent" Like iPerceptive at Facebook http://on.fb.me/raUG1o Follow iPerceptive at Twitter http://twitter.com/iPerceptive
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Concept of Nature Chapter 5 Alfred North Whitehead Audiobook