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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher and Mystic

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In this lecture, Amy Edelstein looks at Alfred North Whitehead's life and view of process philosophy, exploring how this sense of ...

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A History of Philosophy | 61 Whitehead's Process Philosophy
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Alfred North Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism with Matthew D. Segall

Dartington Trust
This talk introduces Alfred North Whitehead's “Philosophy of Organism,” a novel metaphysical scheme that he articulated in the ...
Principia Mathematica | Why Whitehead Was Drawn into Metaphysics | Universe as a Network of Events | The First Scientific Revolution | Eternal Objects | The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness | The Notion of Vacuous Actuality | Science and the Soul of the World

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Probing Process & Reality - "Why Whitehead?"

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... Jr. and Tripp Fuller provide an introduction to Alfred North Whitehead's masterpiece. In this introduction to the course, Dr. Cobb ...

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Alfred North Whitehead: His Life and Work

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A recent lecture introducing Alfred North Whitehead's life and work.

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"Modes of Thought" (1938) by Alfred North Whitehead

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Ch. 1: "Importance" - 'Modes of Thought' by Alfred North Whitehead

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Ch. 2: "Expression" - 'Modes of Thought' by Alfred North Whitehead
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Rupert Sheldrake on the Influence of A. N. Whitehead

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I interview biologist and psychical researcher Rupert Sheldrake to ask him about the influence of Whitehead on his ideas and ...
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Mycological Metaphysics: Fungi and Alfred North Whitehead | Merlin Sheldrake

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Alfred North Whitehead: An Introduction-

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Intro to ANW. ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD's philosophy of values. Thesis

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The Foundation of Terence McKenna's Ideas - Alfred North Whiteheads Concrescence and Process

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From his talk entitled "The World and its Double"

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Joseph A. Bracken - How would you define process philosophy?

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Marjorie Suchocki: An Introduction to Process Theology
Center for Process Studies
Marjorie Suchocki: "An Introduction to Process Theology," Jan. 27, 2004.

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Process Theology and Science, David Bohm Lecture

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A History of Philosophy | 62 Whitehead and Process Theology

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Matt Segall – The Intricacies and Insights of Whitehead’s Process Thought

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His recent book, Physics of the World-Soul: Alfred North Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology, put Whitehead's process ...
Intro | Discovering Whitehead through Terence McKenna | Matt’s personal spiritual background and journey | Terrence McKenna, the logos, and Whitehead | Matt’s experience reading Whitehead for the first time | Whitehead’s insights on beauty and peace in Adventures of Ideas | Reading Process and Reality for the first time | Whitehead’s concept of God | The divine lure and the divine companion | The secularization of the function of God | Concrescence and Whitehead’s understanding of experience | Whitehead’s “organic realism” as an alternative to materialism and idealism | The relationship between Whitehead and Neoplatonism | God and creativity as co-ultimate and dialogue with Buddhism | Whitehead, shamanism, Jung, and multiple planes of existence | Whitehead’s extensive continuum

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The Process Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead (*1861, †1947)

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Whitehead, Alfred North (1861–1947)

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Alfred North Whiteheads Process Metaphysics

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An overview of Alfred North Whiteheads process metaphysics. It isn't a complete explanation of his categories but it is the main ...

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2018 Whitehead Lecture One: Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU)-

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Process Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher & Mystic

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A. N. Whitehead - Introduction

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A History of Philosophy | 63 Whitehead's "Science and Modern World"

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A Cartoon Introduction to Whitehead's Organic Cosmology

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Some images to help orient you in the midst of Whitehead's categoreal forest.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.

In his early career Whitehead wrote primarily on mathematics, logic, and physics. His most notable work in these fields is the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), which he wrote with former student Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica is considered one of the twentieth century's most important works in mathematical logic, and placed 23rd in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century by Modern Library.Beginning in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Whitehead gradually turned his attention from mathematics to philosophy of science, and finally to metaphysics. He developed a comprehensive metaphysical system which radically departed from most of western philosophy. Whitehead argued that reality consists of processes rather than material objects, and that processes are best defined by their relations with other processes, thus rejecting the theory that reality is fundamentally constructed by bits of matter that exist independently of one another. Today Whitehead's philosophical works – particularly Process and Reality – are regarded as the foundational texts of process philosophy.

Whitehead's process philosophy argues that "there is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have consequences for the world around us." For this reason, one of the most promising applications of Whitehead's thought in recent years has been in the area of ecological civilization and environmental ethics pioneered by John B. Cobb Jr.

SEOP - https://plato.stanford.edu/Archives/Win2017/entries/whitehead/

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead's "Philosophy of Organism"

with Matthew D. Segall

by Dartington Trust

June 4, 2021 | 1:36:01

This talk introduces Alfred North Whitehead’s “Philosophy of Organism,” a novel metaphysical scheme that he articulated in the first half of the twentieth century not only as a protest against the lifeless Nature imagined by scientific materialism, but also as a rejection of the narrow linguistic analysis and sterile logical positivism of his philosophical contemporaries. His was an attempt to make natural science philosophical again by asking whether physical causes and motions need be so violently segregated from the conscious reasons and emotions by which we apprehend them. We will explore the major themes of his magnum opus, Process & Reality, wherein Whitehead attempts to construct an organic system of the universe that not only brings quantum and relativity theories into coherence, but gathers up scientific truths, aesthetic feelings, and religious values into an integral vision of reality.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Matthew D. Segall is a process philosopher whose research focuses on process-relational thought (especially Alfred North Whitehead) and German Idealism (especially Friedrich Schelling). He is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA (CIIS.edu). He has published articles on a wide-array of topics, including metaphysics, Gaia theory, religious studies, psychedelics, and architecture. He also blogs regularly at footnotes2plato.com.

This talk is part of the Holistic Science programme at Schumacher College. Find out more about the programme and register for updates about the course: https://campus.dartington.org/study/courses/

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Alfred North Whitehead and James Haughton Woods

Alfred North Whitehead

and James Haughton Woods

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George R. Lucas, Jr., our General Editor for the Critical Edition of Whitehead, recently completed an east coast crawl that included visits to several archives that held Whitehead-related papers. While combing through the Victor Lowe and Whitehead papers held at Johns Hopkins, he not only recovered numerous letters, photographs, and student notes, but also one item of special interest: Whitehead’s appointment book for 1924-26. This is an exciting resource for us to have as we are in the midst of editing student notes for 1925-27, as it gives us a better idea of when Whitehead met individually with students, when he met with other friends and colleagues, and explains some of his classroom absences.

In reviewing this appointment book, I noticed something interesting. For the fall of 1925, Whitehead wrote “Woods at 3-4” (or some variation thereof) for every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. James Haughton Woods (1864-1935) was the philosophy department chair, so it’s possible that these could have been departmental or private meetings, but it seems more likely that Whitehead was regularly attending one of Woods’ classes.

That semester, Woods co-taught a seminar on the history of philosophy, but if we assume that seminars were commonly once a week, the more likely class that Whitehead was attending was Woods’ “Philosophy 12: Early Greek philosophy, with especial reference to Plato.”

How much might Woods (who was an expert in Greek and Indian/Buddhist thought) have influenced Whitehead’s thought, particularly with regard to Plato and Buddhism? Lowe opined that Whitehead’s references to Buddhism in the Lowell lectures owed much to Woods (volume 2, p. 195), who was apparently Whitehead’s closest friend in the department.

From Lowe (volume 2, 137-138):

Woods, at fifty-nine, was the oldest of the tenured philosophers at Harvard. His teacher, William James, had suggested that he enter the field of Indian philosophy. He became expert in it, in Far Eastern thought, and in Greek philosophy. He is now forgotten because he published so little… He was intensely proud of the Harvard Philosophy Department, and raised money from outside sources to strengthen it. Woods was the one who got assurance from President Lowell that he would not veto Whitehead’s appointment on ground of age (as he had vetoed the offer of a professorship to John Dewey [Whitehead was only a year and a half younger than Dewey])… Whitehead felt more at ease with [Woods] than with anyone else in the Department… Woods helped him with everything, and for many years was his most valued colleague in the Philosophy Department.

Speaking of publishing little, Whitehead co-wrote a “Minute on the Life and Services of Professor James Haughton Woods” upon his death in 1935 for the Harvard University Gazette, the final paragraph of which reads:

It is inevitable that a man so extravagantly endowed should be imperfectly embodied in his published works. The soil from which these sprang, their context of unused learning, their surrounding and sustaining medium of experience and sensitive discernment, are perpetuated in what he gave during his life to his students and friends, and in the grateful love which this giving inspired.

We may never know the extent to which Whitehead’s thought on Plato was influenced by what he heard in Woods’ lectures. Unless someone later digs up notes from Woods’ classes in the same way that we’ve dug up notes for Whitehead’s, we have no points of comparison. But this recent discovery is a good reminder that Whitehead’s philosophy, as startlingly original as it is, did not emerge out of a vacuum, with Woods being only the latest example of a largely overlooked influence to whom Whitehead may have owed an intellectual debt.

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How to cite this blog: Petek, Joseph. “Whitehead and James Haughton Woods.” whiteheadresearch.org:

https://whiteheadresearch.org/2018/10/08/whitehead-and-james-haughton-woods/

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The Online Books Page

Online Books by

Alfred North Whitehead

(Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947)

An online book about this author is available, as is a Wikipedia article.

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947: The Concept of Nature (Gutenberg text)
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947: An Introduction to Mathematics (Gutenberg LaTeX and PDF)
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947: Principia Mathematica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910-1913), also by Bertrand Russell
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947: Religion in the Making (1926) (HTML in Korea)
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947: A Treatise on Universal Algebra, With Applications (page images at Cornell)