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Alfred North Whitehead, Essays in Science and Philosophy
(Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal), 204 pages.
ISBN: 978-1-989970-88-1 (ebook) - $7.00
ISBN: 978-1-989970-87-4 (softcover) - $18.00
To appear - tba
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Notable quotes:
Philosophy is an attempt to express the infinity of the universe in terms of the limitations of language.
(p. 15 in the original publication; p. 11 in the new publication).
Abstraction involves emphasis, and emphasis vivifies experience, for
good, or for evil. All characteristics peculiar to actualities are modes of
emphasis whereby finitude vivifies the infinite. In this way Creativity involves
the production of value-experience, by the inflow from the infinite into the
finite, deriving special character from the details and the totality of the finite
pattern.
This is the abstraction involved in the creation of any actuality, with
its union of finitude with infinity. But consciousness proceeds to a second
order of abstraction whereby finite constituents of the actual thing are
abstracted from that thing. This procedure is necessary for finite thought,
though it weakens the sense of reality. It is the basis of science. The task of
philosophy is to reverse this process and thus to exhibit the fusion of
analysis with actuality. It follows that Philosophy is not a science.
(p. 86 in the original publication; pp. 90-91 in the new publication).
Description:
This is a new publication of Whitehead's book Essays in Science and Philosophy.
Alfred North Whitehead, Essays in Science and Philosophy (Rider and Company, New York 1948).
CONTENTS
Part I PERSONAL
Autobiographical Notes
Memories
The Education of an Englishman
England and the Narrow Seas
An Appeal to Sanity
Part II PHILOSOPHY
Immortality
Mathematics and the Good
Process and Reality
John Dewey and his Influence
Analysis of Meaning
Uniformity and Contingency
Part III EDUCATION
The Study of the Past - its Uses and its Dangers
Education and Self-Education
Mathematics and Liberal Education
Science in General Education
Historical Changes
Harvard: the Future
Part IV SCIENCE
The First Physical Synthesis
Axioms of Geometry
Mathematics
Non-Euclidean Geometry
Einstein's Theory
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