Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead (Ramsgate, 15. 2. 1861. – Cambridge, 30. 12. 1947), britansko-američki filozof, fizičar i matematičar.

Alfred North Whitehead
Filozofija 20. vijeka
Zapadna filozofija
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	(1861-02-15)15. 2. 1861. Ramsgate, Kent, Engleska, UK
Smrt	30. decembra 1947. (dob: 86) Cambridge, Massachusetts, SAD
Državljanstvo	Britanac Amerikanac
Obrazovanje
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Filozofija
Glavni interesi	metafizika, matematika
Znamenite ideje
procesna filozofija, procesna teologija
Inspiracija
Od Aristotel,[1] Henri Bergson,[2] Francis Herbert Bradley[3] John Dewey,[2] David Hume,[1] William James,[2] Immanuel Kant,[4] Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,[5] Locke,[4] Isaac Newton,[5] Platon,[1] George Santayana[5]
Na Terence McKenna, Wilfred Eade Agar,[6] Ian Barbour,[7] Charles Birch,[7] David Bohm,[6] Joseph A. Bracken,[8] C. D. Broad,[9] Milič Čapek,[6] Philip Clayton,[10] John Cobb,[11] Monica Coleman,[10] Gilles Deleuze,[12] Philippe Devaux,[9] Dorothy Emmet,[13] Bruce G. Epperly,[14] Roland Faber,[10] Franklin I. Gamwell,[15] David Ray Griffin,[16] Charles Hartshorne,[17] Nancy R. Howell,[18] Hans Jonas,[9] Mordecai Kaplan,[19] William E. Kaufman,[20] Catherine Keller,[21] Jean Ladrière,[9] Susanne Langer,[22] Ervin László,[23] Bruno Latour,[24] Bernard Loomer,[25] Charles Malik,[26] Jay McDaniel,[27] Maurice Merleau-Ponty,[9] C. Robert Mesle,[28] H. Richard Niebuhr,[29] Reinhold Niebuhr,[29] F. S. C. Northrop,[22] Schubert M. Ogden,[30] Thomas Jay Oord,[31] Wolfhart Pannenberg,[9] Talcott Parsons,[32] Luis G. Pedraja,[33] Norman Pittenger,[29] Ilya Prigogine,[9] W. V. O. Quine,[34] Nicholas Rescher,[35] Bertrand Russell,[5] B. F. Skinner,[36] Wolfgang Smith,[37] Isabelle Stengers,[38] Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki,[10] John Lighton Synge,[6] William Irwin Thompson,[39] Jules Vuillemin,[9] Conrad Hal Waddington,[6] Jean Wahl,[9] Michel Weber,[40] Paul Weiss,[22] Henry Nelson Wieman,[41] Daniel Day Williams,[25] Sewall Wright[42]

Radio je na polju logičke, matematičke i filozofske nauke, te metafizike. Najbolje je poznat po svome radu na Principa Matematica koju je napisao u suradnji s Bertrandom Russellom. Matematikom se pretežno bavio za svoga boravka u Cambridgeu, a nakon što 1924. odlazi na Harvard započinje sa razvojem procesne filozofije (process philosophy). Godine 1927. drži niz predavanja na Univerzitetu u Edinburgu iz kojih nastaje njegovo cijenjeno djelo Proces i Stvarnost (Process and Reality). Unatoč tome što je djelovao na mnogim naučnim poljima i u njima ostavio svoj trag, Whiteheada se smatra jednim od najzanemarivanijih mislilaca 20. vijeka.

Opus

Djelomična lista djela:

• A Treatise on Universal Algebra. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898. ISBN 1-4297-0032-7.
• The Axioms of Descriptive Geometry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907.^[43]
• koautor: Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica, Volume I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910. Vol. 1–*56.^[44][45][46]
• An Introduction to Mathematics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911. Vol. 56, serija Great Books of the Western World.
• koautor: Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica, Volume II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912.
• koautor: Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica, Volume III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913.
• The Organization of Thought Educational and Scientific. London: Williams & Norgate, 1917.
• An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1919.
• The Concept of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920.
• The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922.
• Science and the Modern World. New York: Macmillan Company, 1925. Vol. 55, serija Great Books of the Western World.
• Religion in the Making. New York: Macmillan Company, 1926.
• Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect. New York: Macmillan Company, 1927.
• Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology. New York: Macmillan Company, 1929.
• The Aims of Education and Other Essays. New York: Macmillan Company, 1929.
• The Function of Reason. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1929.
• Adventures of Ideas. New York: Macmillan Company, 1933.; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933.
• Nature and Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934.
• Modes of Thought. New York: Macmillan Company, 1938.
• "Mathematics and the Good." u The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, ur. Paul Arthur Schilpp, 666–681. Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1941.
• "Immortality." u The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, ur. Paul Arthur Schilpp, 682–700. Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1941.
• Essays in Science and Philosophy. London: Philosophical Library, 1947.
• koautor: Allison Heartz Johnson, ur. The Wit and Wisdom of Whitehead. Boston: Beacon Press, 1947.