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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811186203321

Autore

Whitehead Alfred North <1861-1947, >

Titolo

Science and philosophy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Philosophical Library, , [1948]

©1948

ISBN

1-4976-7580-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Disciplina

100.2378

Soggetti

Science

Philosophy

Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""Part I: Personal""; ""Autobiographical Notes""; ""Memories""; ""The Education of an Englishman""; ""England and the Narrow Seas""; ""An Appeal to Sanity""; ""Part II: Philosophy""; ""Immortality""; ""Mathematics and the Good""; ""Process and Reality""; ""John Dewey and His Influence""; ""Analysis of Meaning""; ""Uniformity and Contingency""; ""Part III: Education""; ""The Study of the Past�Its Uses and Its Dangers""; ""Education and Self-Education""; ""Mathematics and Liberal Education""; ""Science in General Education""

""Historical Changes""""Harvard: the Future""; ""Part IV: Science""; ""The First Physical Synthesis""; ""Axioms of Geometry""; ""Mathematics""; ""Einstein�s Theory""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Copyright Page""