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Philosophy General

The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924-1925

Philosophical Presuppositions of Science

by (author) Paul A. Bogaard

edited by Jason Bell

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2017
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781474401845
    Publish Date
    Apr 2017
    List Price
    $220.00

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Beginning in September of 1924, Alfred North Whitehead presented a regular course of 85 lectures which concluded in May of 1925. These represent the first ever philosophy lectures he gave and capture him working out the philosophical implications of the remarkable turns physics had taken in his lifetime. This volume finally recreates these lectures by transcribing notes by W. P. Bell, W. E. Hocking and Louise Heath taken at the time - many of which have only recently been discovered and including hundreds of sketches of Whitehead's blackboard diagrams. This is a unique insight into the evolution of Whitehead's thought during the months when he was drafting his seminal work, Science and the Modern World.

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JASON BELL, PhD, is a professor of philosophy at the University of New Brunswick. He has served as a Fulbright professor in Germany (at Winthrop Bell’s alma mater, the University of Göttingen) and taught at universities in Belgium, the United States and Canada. He was the first scholar to be granted exclusive access to Winthrop Bell’s classified espionage papers. Despite the coincidence of their surname, Jason and Winthrop Bell are not known relations.

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