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Alfred North Whitehead
1861–1947
A pioneering mathematician and philosopher, he helped reshape modern logic before developing a bold vision of reality as an unfolding process. His collaboration with Bertrand Russell and later works such as Process and Reality made him a lasting influence on mathematics, science, and metaphysics.
7 Audiobooks
Science and the modern world
by Alfred North Whitehead
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
by Alfred North Whitehead
An enquiry concerning the principles of natural knowledge
by Alfred North Whitehead
Principia mathematica, vol. 1 (of 3)
by Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell
Principia mathematica, vol. 2 (of 3)
by Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell
The organisation of thought, educational and scientific
by Alfred North Whitehead
Symbolism, its meaning and effect : Barbour-Page lectures, University of Virginia, 1927
by Alfred North Whitehead
About the author
Born in Ramsgate, England, Alfred North Whitehead studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he later taught and became a Fellow. He collaborated with Bertrand Russell on Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), a landmark three-volume attempt to ground mathematics in formal logic. Whitehead was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903 and received numerous academic honors throughout his career.
After teaching in London, Whitehead moved to Harvard University in 1924 as a professor of philosophy. There he turned increasingly toward metaphysics, writing influential works including Science and the Modern World, Process and Reality, and Adventures of Ideas. His “philosophy of organism,” now closely associated with process philosophy, presented reality as dynamic, interconnected, and continually developing.