Alfred North Whitehead

The Concept of Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

Hailed as "one of the most valuable books on the relation of philosophy and science," Alfred North Whitehead's The Concept of Nature, first published in 1920, was an important contribution to the development of philosophic naturalism. Examining the fundamental problems of substance, space, and time, Whitehead assesses the impact of Einstein's theories as well as the then-recent findings of modern physics on the concept of nature. For students and teachers of natural philosophy, this is essential reading. English mathematician and philosopher ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1861-1947) contributed significantly to 20th-century logic and metaphysics. With Bertrand Russell he cowrote the landmark Principia Mathematica, and also authored An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, The Function of Reason, and Process and Reality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cosimo Classics
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 451g
• ISBN-13: 9781602069282
• ISBN-10: 160206928X
• Artikelnr.: 23298561

Autorenporträt

An English mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead provided the foundation for the school of thought known as process philosophy. With an academic career that spanned from Cambridge to Harvard, Whitehead wrote extensively on mathematics, metaphysis, and philosophy. He died in Massachusetts in 1947.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to this edition Michael Hampe
Preface
1. Nature and thought
2. Theories of the bifurcation of nature
3. Time
4. The method of extensive abstraction
5. Space and motion
6. Congruence
7. Objects
8. Summary
9. The ultimate physical concepts
Notes
Index.