Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Preface: A Brief History of the Critical Edition of Whitehead ix
6. Introduction: Tales from the Whitehead Mines – On Whitehead, His Students and the Challenges of Editing the Critical Edition 1
7. Part I: The First Lecture
8. 1. First Lecture: September, 1924 39
9. 2. Examining Whitehead’s ‘First Lecture: September, 1924’ 56
10. Part II: The Fitness of the Environment
11. 3. Whitehead and His Philosophy of Evolution 73
12. 4. Some Clarifications on Evolution and Time 89
13. 5. Whitehead’s Biological Turn 100
14. Part III: Physics and Relativity
15. 6. Quanta and Corpuscles: The Infl uence of Quantum Mechanical Ideas on Whitehead’s Transitional Philosophy in Light of The Harvard Lectures 117
16. 7. From Physics to Philosophy, and from Continuity to Atomicity 132
17. 8. Whitehead’s Highly Speculative Lectures on Quantum Theory 154
18. 9. On Herstein’s ‘Quanta and Corpuscles’ 182
19. 10. Reply to Desmet 189
20. Part IV: Whitehead’s Philosophical Context
21. 11. Whitehead and Kant at Copenhagen 197
22. 12. Whitehead’s Early Harvard Period, Hartshorne and the Transcendental Project 226
23. 13. Footnotes to Plato 269
24. Part V: Metaphysical Reflections
25. 14. Diagrams and Myths 281
26. 15. How ‘Eternity’ Got ‘Thrown Forward’ Into ‘Perishing’ 307
27. Part VI: Reinterpreting Whitehead
28. 16. Uncovering a ‘New’ Whitehead 323
29. 17. Whitehead in Class: Do the Harvard-Radcliffe Course Notes Change How We Understand Whitehead’s Thought? 337
30. Notes on Contributors 357
31. Index 361