Alfred North Whitehead
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Page 2 - OUTLINE
Page 3 - LIFE 1
Page 4 - LIFE 2
Page 5 - LIFE 3
Page 6 - LIFE 4
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Page 8 - LIFE 6
Page 9 - WORKS 1
Page 10 - MATHEMATICS & LOGIC 1
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Page 12 - MATHEMATICS & LOGIC 3
Page 13 - MATHEMATICS & LOGIC 4
Page 14 - PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 1
Page 15 - PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 1
Page 16 - PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 2
Page 17 - PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 3
Page 18 - PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 4
Page 19 - PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 5
Page 20 - HISTORY 1
Page 21 - HISTORY 2
Page 22 - MP 1
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Page 26 - PROCESS PHILO 1
Page 27 - PROCESS PHILO 2
Page 28 - PROCESS PHILO 3
Page 29 - SUMMARY
Alfred North Whitehead
1. Alfred North Whitehead Jessie Paano Vince Millona BA-I Alfred North Whitehead References: Desmet, R. & Irvine, A. (2018) Alfred North Whitehead. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/ Herstein, G. (2015) Whitehead, Alfred North. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
https://www.iep.utm.edu/whitehed/ Bracken, J. (2015). Process Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. https://www.youtube.com.2. Alfred North Whitehead I. Life and Works II. Problem of Space III. Problem of History * Mathematics and Logic * Philosophy of Science * Philosophy of Education *Reality IV. Metaphysics *Religion *God V. Process Philosophy3. Alfred North Whitehead British mathematician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and the philosophy of science.4. Alfred North Whitehead LIFE 1861 Born February 15 in Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet, Kent, England. 1880 Enters Trinity College, Cambridge, with a scholarship in mathematics. 1890 Meets Russell; marries Evelyn Wade. 1884 Elected to the Apostles, the elite discussion club; graduates with a B.A. in Mathematics; elected a Fellow in Mathematics at Trinity.5. Alfred North Whitehead LIFE 1903 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as a result of his work on universal algebra, symbolic logic, and the foundations of mathematics. 1910 Resigns from Cambridge and moves to London. 1911 Appointed Lecturer at University College London.6. Alfred North Whitehead LIFE 1912 Elected President of both the South-Eastern Mathematical Association and the London branch of the Mathematical Association for the year 1913. 1914 Appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology.7. Alfred North Whitehead LIFE 1915 Elected President of the Mathematical Association for the two-year period 1915–1917. 1921 Meets Albert Einstein. 1922 Elected President of the Aristotelian Society for the one- year period 1922–1923. 1924 Appointed Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.8. Alfred North Whitehead LIFE 1937 Retires from Harvard. 1945 Awarded Order of Merit. 1947 Died December 30 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.9. Alfred North Whitehead WORKS 1891 Treatise on Universal Algebra 1903 Principia Mathematica (feat. Bertrand Russel) 1924 Science in the Modern World 1924 Adventures of Ideas 1922 The Principle of Relativity 1929 The Aims of Education 1926 Religion in the Making 1929 Process and Reality10. Alfred North Whitehead II. PROBLEM OF SPACE 1. Mathematics and Logic In 1884, He began teaching college on Trinity College In the year 1890, Bertrand Russell became his student.11. Alfred North Whitehead II. PROBLEM OF SPACE 1. Mathematics and Logic Whitehead saw mathematical logic as a tool to guide the mathematician’s essential activities of intuiting, articulating, and applying patterns, and he did not aim at replacing mathematical intuition (pattern recognition) with logical rigor.12. Alfred North Whitehead II. PROBLEM OF SPACE 1. Mathematics and Logic A Treatise on Universal Algebra 1898 The Principles of Mathematics 1903 Principia Mathematica 1910, 1912, 191313. Alfred North Whitehead II. PROBLEM OF SPACE 1. Mathematics and Logic Giuseppe Peano- Makes Whitehead and Russell became aware of the potential of symbolic logic to become the most appropriate tool to rigorously study mathematical patterns.14. Alfred North Whitehead II. PROBLEM OF SPACE 2. Philosophy of Science Theory of Gravitation- Regarded as dual to Einstein's general relativity. Physics15. Alfred North Whitehead III. PROBLEM OF HSTORY 1. Philosophy of Education • emphasizes the idea that a good life is most profitably thought of as an educated or civilized life “There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations (Whitehead, 1929).” This view in turn has corollaries for both the content of education and its method of delivery.16. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Philosophy of Education corollaries: A. METHOD OF DELIVERY • Whitehead emphasizes the importance of remembering that a “pupil’s mind is a growing organism … it is not a box to be ruthlessly packed with alien ideas”17. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Philosophy of Education Rhythm of Education1. Romance 2. Precision 3. Generalization has 3 processes corollaries: A. METHOD OF DELIVERY18. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Philosophy of Education corollaries: A. METHOD OF DELIVERY “…we must beware of what I call ‘inert ideas’—that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.” It is not the job of the educator simply to insert into his students’ minds little chunks of knowledge.19. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Philosophy of Education corollaries: A. METHOD OF DELIVERY Whitehead also stressed the importance of IMAGINATION Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts: it is a way of illuminating the facts.20. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Philosophy of Education corollaries: B. CONTENT OF EDUCATION With regard to content, Whitehead holds that any adequate education must include: • a LITERARY COMPONENT; • a SCIENTIFIC COMPONENT; and • a TECHNICAL COMPONENT. III. PROBLEM OF HSTORY21. Alfred North Whitehead 2. Religion III. PROBLEM OF HSTORY It isnot necessarilygood. (Taking it so is a dangerous delusion.) For Whitehead, religion served as a kind of bridge between philosophy and the emotions and purposes of a particular society. It is the task of religion to make philosophy applicable to the everyday lives of ordinary people.22. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Reality IV. METAPHYSICS Scientific Notion: Reality consists of matter. (MATERIALISM) WHITEHEAD: Reality consists of processes. (PROCESS PHILOSOPHY)23. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Reality IV. METAPHYSICS Concepts such as "quality", "matter", and "form" are problematic. “Identities do not define people, people define identities. Everything changes from moment to moment, and to think of anything as having an "enduring essence" misses the fact that "all things flow.” ”24. Alfred North Whitehead 2. GOD IV. METAPHYSICS Idea of god differs from traditional monotheistic notions. God is not necessarily tied to religion. Rather than springing primarily from religious faith by metaphysical system.25. Alfred North Whitehead 2. GOD IV. METAPHYSICS CONSEQUENT NATURE PRIMORDIAL NATURE Eternal and unchanging "the lure for feeling, the eternal urge of desire" God's reception of the world's activity God and the world as fulfilling one another26. Alfred North Whitehead V. PROCESS PHILOSOPHY Process philosophy is a longstanding philosophical tradition that emphasizes becoming and changing over static being. In actuality, there are no static substances but only events/occasions/processes The smallest processes are called actual entities - drops of experiences that constitute nature27. Alfred North Whitehead V. PROCESS PHILOSOPHY Actual entities: entities that really exist in the natural world; concrete Abstract entities: also called ‘object’; abstraction one commits the fallacy of MISPLACED CONCRETENESS when an abstract entity is taken as something concrete28. Alfred North Whitehead CLASSICAL ARISTOTELIAN- THOMISTIC I: Focuses on reaching fixed goal PROCESS I: Working on moving towards a goal that is never truly complete V. PROCESS PHILOSOPHY29. Alfred North Whitehead Jessie Paano Vince Millona BA-I Alfred North Whitehead References: Desmet, R. & Irvine, A. (2018) Alfred North Whitehead. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/ Herstein, G. (2015) Whitehead, Alfred North. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
https://www.iep.utm.edu/whitehed/ Bracken, J. (2015). Process Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. https://www.youtube.com.
Editor's Notes
- Process philo is his metap6
- HIS UNPUBLISHED WORKS WERE BURNED BY HIS WIFE AS ALFRED’S REQUEST. His published works must be the only basis for his thoughts.
- From his 1929 work The Aims of Education *Reax on the negative effect of industrial revolution on education: -focus on tech-voc -focus on sci -focus on lit
- The first stage is all about “free exploration, initiated by wonder”, the second about the disciplined “acquirement of technique and detailed knowledge”, and the third about “the free application of what has been learned” By skipping stage one, and never arriving at stage three, bad math teachers deny students the major motivation to love mathematics: the joy of pattern recognition.
- Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness of beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful
- Imagination works by drawing out general principles and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with those principles. It enables men to construct an intellectual vision of a new world.
- In considering religion, we should not be obsessed by the idea of its necessary goodness. This is a dangerous delusion. Indeed history, down to the present day, is a melancholy record of the horrors which can attend religion: human sacrifice, and in particular, the slaughter of children, cannibalism, hatred as between races, the maintenance of degrading customs, hysteria, bigotry, can all be laid at its charge. The uncritical association of religion with goodness is directly negative by plain facts.
- Matter - objects; unchanging; change is caused by external factors (FORM / ACCIDENS)
- It focuses on change rather than unchanging reality; BEING THEN IS BASICALLY further and further BECOMING (I AM THIS IN ORDER TO BECOME MORE). Perfection is not to be found in actuality but in greater and greater potentiality to become more and more (The process metaphysics/philo of organism elaborated in Process and Reality[17] posits an ontology which is based on the two kinds of existence of an entity, that of actual entity and that of abstract entity or abstraction, also called 'object‘) Actual entity is a term coined by Whitehead to refer to the entities that really exist in the natural world.[21] For Whitehead, actual entities are spatiotemporally extended events or processes.[22] An actual entity is how something is happening, and how its happening is related to other actual entities.[22] The actually existing world is a multiplicity of actual entities overlapping one another.[22]
- It focuses on change rather than unchanging reality; BEING THEN IS BASICALLY further and further BECOMING (I AM THIS IN ORDER TO BECOME MORE). Perfection is not to be found in actuality but in greater and greater potentiality to become more and more (The process metaphysics/philo of organism elaborated in Process and Reality[17] posits an ontology which is based on the two kinds of existence of an entity, that of actual entity and that of abstract entity or abstraction, also called 'object‘) Actual entity is a term coined by Whitehead to refer to the entities that really exist in the natural world.[21] For Whitehead, actual entities are spatiotemporally extended events or processes.[22] An actual entity is how something is happening, and how its happening is related to other actual entities.[22] The actually existing world is a multiplicity of actual entities overlapping one another.[22] FALLACY OF MISPLACED CONCRETENESS: Ex - Justice is blind; the blind cannot read printed laws; therefore, to print laws cannot serve justice.
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