Whitehead at Harvard, 1924-1925

Henning, Brian G. (EDT)/ Petek, Joseph (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2021/12発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2021/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 400 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474459402
• DDC分類 192

Full Description

This book examines the significance of Whitehead's first year of lectures at Harvard, recently published in the first volume of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead.In these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions: 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? The lectures published in The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924-1925: Philosophical Presuppositions of Science represent Whitehead's first American lectures in philosophy after a long career in England as a mathematician and throw new light on the development of his philosophy.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. Brian G. Henning, Founding Executive Editor of the Critical Edition of Whitehead, is Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.

Contents

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Acknowledgements

PrefaceA Brief History of the Critical Edition of WhiteheadBrian G. Henning

Introduction

Tales from the Whitehead Mines: On Whitehead, His Students, and the challenges of Editing the Critical EditionJoseph Petek

Part I: The First Lecture

1. First lecture: September, 1924Alfred North Whitehead

2. Examining Whitehead's 'First lecture: September, 1924'Paul A. Bogaard

Part II: The Fitness of the Environment

3. Whitehead and his Philosophy of EvolutionPaul A. Bogaard

4. Some Clarifications on Evolution and TimeMaria-Teresa Teixeira

5. Whitehead's Biological TurnDennis Sölch

Part III: Physics and Relativity

6. Quanta and Corpuscles: The Influence of Quantum Mechanical Ideas on Whitehead's Transitional Philosophy in Light of The Harvard LecturesGary L. Herstein

7. From Physics to Philosophy, and from Continuity to AtomicityRonny Desmet

8. Whitehead's Highly Speculative Lectures on Quantum TheoryRonny Desmet

9. On Herstein's 'Quanta and Corpuscles'Ronny Desmet

10. Reply to DesmetGary L. Herstein

Part IV: Whitehead's Philosophical Context

11. Whitehead and Kant at CopenhagenJason Bell, Seshu Iyengar

12. Whitehead's Early Harvard Period, Hartshorne, and the Transcendental ProjectGeorge W. Shields

13. Footnotes to PlatoAljoscha Berve

Part V: Metaphysical Reflections

14. Diagrams and MythsGeorge Allan

15. How 'Eternity' got 'Thrown Forward' into 'Perishing'Jude Jones

Part VI: Reinterpreting Whitehead

16. Uncovering a 'New' WhiteheadGeorge R. Lucas, Jr.

17. Whitehead in Class: Do the Harvard-Radcliffe Course Notes Change How we Understand Whitehead's Thought?Brian G. Henning

Notes on ContributorsIndex