Record Nr.

UNINA9910524704803321

Autore

Lowe Victor <1907-1988, >

Titolo

Alfred North Whitehead : The Man and His Work: 1910-1947 / . Volume 2 1910-1947/ / Victor Lowe; edited by J.B. Schneewind . Volume 2 1910-1947

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN

0-8018-3960-2

1-4214-3420-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 389 pages) :) : portrait

Altri autori (Persone)

SchneewindJ. B <1930-2024.> (Jerome B.)

Soggetti

Philosophers

Mathematicians

Mathematicians - England

Philosophers - England

Biographies.

England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1990

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Whitehead's First Years in London -- II. 1914-1918 -- III. Whitehead on Education -- IV. Last Years in England -- V. First Philosophical Publications -- VI. "Pan-Physics": Whitehead's Philosophy of Natural Science, 1918-1922 -- VII. Migration to Harvard -- VIII. A New Philosophy of Nature -- IX. Religion -- X. The Atypical English Philosopher -- XI. Gifford Lecturer -- XII. Fame -- XIII. Whitehead's Philosophy as I See It -- Appendix A: The Second Edition of Principia Mathematica -- Appendix B: Letters from Alfred North Whitehead, August 20, 1924−August 12, 1929 -- Appendix C: Letter to Charles Hartshorne -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Originally published in 1990. The second volume of Victor Lowe's definitive work on Alfred North Whitehead completes the biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential yet least understood philosophers. In 1910 Whitehead abruptly ended his thirty-year association with Trinity College of Cambridge and moved to London. The intellectual and personal restlessness that precipitated this move ultimately led Whitehead—at the age of sixty-three—to settle in America and change the focus of his work from mathematics to philosophy. Volume 2 of Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work follows Whitehead's journey to the United States and analyzes his expanding intellectual life. Although Whitehead wrote philosophy based on natural science while still in London, he began his most important work shortly after moving to Harvard in 1924. Science and the Modern World appeared in 1925, Religion in the Making in 1926, Symbolism in 1927, and Process and Reality in 1929. Discussing these and other important works, Lowe combines scholarly analysis with valuable insights gathered from Whitehead's friends and colleagues. Although Whitehead ordered that all his private papers be destroyed, Lowe was given access to letters the philosopher wrote to his son, North, and others. Never before published, the letters add a new personal dimension to Whitehead's life and thought. Photographs of the philosopher, his family, and associates provide an intimate look at a private and self-effacing man whose work has had a lasting impact on twentieth-century thought.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910142957703321

Titolo

International journal of oral science

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Chengdu, Sichuan, : West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University Press

ISSN

2049-3169

Soggetti

Malalties de la boca

Odontologia

Oral medicine

Mouth - Diseases

Stomatognathic Diseases

Stomatognathic System

Revistes electròniques.

Periodical