Whitehead at Harvard, 1925-1927

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Whitehead at Harvard, 1925-1927

Edited by: Joseph Petek and Brian G. Henning

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Long-standing theories about Whitehead’s early philosophical efforts can now be challenged or overturned. In this volume, leading Whitehead scholars address the ways in which the 1925-1927 Harvard lectures challenge or confirm previous understanding of Whitehead’s published works, trace the development of Whitehead’s thought in the crucial period after Science and the Modern World but before Process and Reality, examine Whitehead’s singular guest lecture in Richard Clarke Cabot’s seminar in social ethics – a topic which Whitehead usually avoided – and elucidate how these lectures be seen as a bridge between his mathematical and philosophical work.

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Philosophy Metaphysics, Ontology

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction: Assessing and Defining Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures Joseph Petek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: The Role of Biology in Whitehead’s Philosophy
1. From a Philosophy of Evolution to a Philosophy of Organism Paul A. Bogaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
2. Assessing Whitehead’s ‘Biological Turn’ Philippe Gagnon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
3. Whitehead and Biology – A Reply to Philippe Gagnon Dennis Sölch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
4. Further Clarifications Concerning ‘Assessing Whitehead’s “Biological Turn”’ Philippe Gagnon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
Part II: Mathematics, Logic and Symbolism
5. Symbolic Cognition of Infinity: Using Whitehead’s HL2 to Bridge Symbolism and Principia Mathematica Landon D. C. Elkind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
Part III: Whitehead’s Philosophical Context
6. The Dipolar Character of Being in Plato and Whitehead Daniel A. Dombrowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
7. The Emergence of Organic Empiricism in Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures: Relational Stubbornness and the Being of Practice Christian Frigerio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
8. Reason in Action: Dewey’s Place in Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures (1925–1927) Maria Regina Brioschi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	134
Part IV: Metaphysical Reflections
9. Whitehead’s Ethics: Fill in the Blanks Milan Stürmer and Daniel Bella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
10. Whitehead on Solidarity: From the Concrete to the System Alessia Giacone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	174
11. Standing Firm in the Flux: On Whitehead’s Eternal Objects Matthew David Segall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
12. Whitehead’s 1925–1927 View of Function and Time Ronny Desmet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	224
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253

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