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In these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead's first year of philosophy lectures. 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? Also included is the text of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, recently gifted to the Critical Edition, allowing for a clearer understanding of Whitehead's plans and goals for his first course of lectures in philosophy than has previously been possible.
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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