Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)
Autor(a) de Process and Reality
About the Author
Alfred North Whitehead, who began his career as a mathematician, ranks as the foremost philosopher in the twentieth century to construct a speculative system of philosophical cosmology. After his graduation from Cambridge University, he lectured there until 1910 on mathematics. Like Bertrand mostrar mais Russell (see also Vol. 5), his most brilliant pupil, Whitehead viewed philosophy at the start from the standpoint of mathematics, and, with Russell, he wrote Principia Mathematica (1910--13). This work established the derivation of mathematics from logical foundations and has transformed the philosophical discipline of logic. From his work on mathematics and its logical foundations, Whitehead proceeded to what has been regarded as the second phase of his career. In 1910 he left Cambridge for the University of London, where he lectured until he was appointed professor of applied mathematics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. During his period in London, Whitehead produced works on the epistemological and metaphysical principles of science. The major works of this period are An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919), The Concept of Nature (1920), and The Principles of Relativity (1922). In 1924, at age 63, Whitehead retired from his position at the Imperial College and accepted an appointment as professor of philosophy at Harvard University, where he began his most creative period in speculative philosophy. In Science and the Modern World (1925) he explored the history of the development of science, examining its foundations in categories of philosophical import, and remarked that with the revolutions in biology and physics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a revision of these categories was in order. Whitehead unveiled his proposals for a new list of categories supporting a comprehensive philosophical cosmology in Process and Reality (1929), a work hailed as the greatest expression of process philosophy and theology. Adventures of Ideas (1933) is an essay in the philosophy of culture; it centers on what Whitehead considered the key ideas that have shaped Western culture. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) Not by any means to be confused or combined with the Canadian organist Alfred Whitehead.
Obras por Alfred North Whitehead
The Scientific Outlook 7 exemplares
Alfred North Whitehead, His Reflections on Man and Nature (World Perspectives Volume 27) (1961) 4 exemplares
Matematika a dobro a jiné eseje 3 exemplares
The Relatedness of Nature 1 exemplar
Philosophy of A. N. Whitehead 1 exemplar
The Principles of Natural Knowledge 1 exemplar
Religia în formare 1 exemplar
Problems of Science and Philosophy: Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume II, (1919) 1 exemplar
המדע והעולם המודרני 1 exemplar
The philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead 1 exemplar
l'immortalité 1 exemplar
Great Philosophers Volume Two: Science and Philosophy, The Preservation of Youth, and Understanding History (2018) 1 exemplar
Objects and Subjects 1 exemplar
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- Data de nascimento
- 1861-02-15
- Data de falecimento
- 1947-12-30
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Locais de residência
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Educação
- University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
Sherborne School, Dorset, UK - Ocupações
- lecturer
professor - Relações
- Jeans, James (student)
Russell, Bertrand (student)
Vlastos, Gregory (student) - Organizações
- Cambridge University
University College London
Imperial College London
Harvard University
Royal Society - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Order of Merit
James Scott Prize Lectureship (1918-1922) - Nota de desambiguação
- Not by any means to be confused or combined with the Canadian organist Alfred Whitehead.
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- Membros
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- Popularidade
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- Avaliação
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"1. The Abstract Nature of Mathematics" handler om at videnskaber ender med at være matematisk formulerede for at være præcise og kunne forudsige ting.
"2. Variables" handler om at skrive bogstaver i steder for "find et tal, så tallet i anden er fire..." og den slags.
"3. Methods of Application" handler om ???
"4. Dynamics" handler om ???
"5. The Symbolism of Mathematics" handler om ???
"6. Generalizations of Number" handler om ???
"7. Imaginary Numbers" handler om komplekse tal og om at "imaginær" bare er et navn. De er lige så virkelige som andre slags tal.
"8. Imaginary Numbers (continued)" handler om motivationen for komplekse tal. Og forbindelsen til geometri og to-dimensionale vektorer og kræfternes parallellogram.
"9. Co-ordinate Geometry" handler om at vektorer og koordinatmanipulationer er som skabt til at beskrive den fysiske verden.
"10. Conic Sections" handler om planetbaner og keglesnit og hvornår nulpunkterne for et andengradspolynomium i to variable beskriver et keglesnit.
"11. Functions" handler om funktioner og om at det er nemt at lave helt diskontinuerte funktioner, fx indikatorfunktionen for de rationelle tal.
"12. Periodicity in Nature" handler om ???
"13. Trigonometry" handler om at trekanter har den gode egenskab at siderne i to trekanter er proportionale, hvis vinklerne er de samme. Det gælder fx ikke for rektangler. Efter nogle hundrede år dukker periodicitet op som egenskab ved sinus og cosinus og fourier-rækker dukker op.
"14. Series" handler om ???
"15. The Differential Calculus" handler om ???
"16. Geometry" handler om ???
"17. Quantity" handler om fysiske størrelser og at man vælger dem, der gør formlerne pænest. Fx ændrer jordens rotation sig lidt hele tiden, så et sekund baseret på årets længde er upraktisk. Det samme med en meterstok, som man skal flytte rundt hver gang man skal måle noget.
"Bibliography" handler om fire bøger, der kan være gode at kigge på, når man er over det helt elementære.
"Index" er et opslagsregister, hvor mange af opslagene er på navne. Gad vide hvor nyttigt det er?
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