Bücher von Alfred North Whitehead

2024 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Whitehead was a prominent English mathematician and philosopher who co-authored the highly influential Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell. Religion in the Making, which originated in a series of four lectures delivered in King's Chapel, Boston, during February 1926, constitutes an exploration of the relationship between human nature and religion. In many ways a rejection of dogma, the text explores the connection between religious transformation and the transformation of knowledge. Through this approach, the reader is encouraged to develop a conception of faith that is at home with the changing nature of experience. The permanent aspect of religion is regarded as the apprehension of permanent elements that are reconcilable with this form of change. This concise and fascinating study will be of value to anyone with an interest in philosophy and theology.

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Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) was equally celebrated as a mathematician, a philosopher and a physicist. He collaborated with his former student Bertrand Russell on the first edition of Principia Mathematica (published in three volumes between 1910 and 1913), and after several years teaching and writing on physics and the philosophy of science at University College London and Imperial College, was invited to Harvard to teach philosophy and the theory of education. A Treatise on Universal Algebra was published in 1898, and was intended to be the first of two volumes, though the second (which was to cover quaternions, matrices and the general theory of linear algebras) was never published. This book discusses the general principles of the subject and covers the topics of the algebra of symbolic logic and of Grassmann's calculus of extension.

2019 Reprint of 1910 Edition. Volume One Only. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Originally published in three volumes. There is no doubt that Principia Mathematica [PM] is of great importance in the history of mathematics and philosophy: it sparked interest in symbolic logic and advanced the subject by popularizing it; it showcased the powers and capacities of symbolic logic; and it showed how advances in philosophy of mathematics and symbolic logic could go hand-in-hand with tremendous fruitfulness. Indeed, PM was in part brought about by an interest in Logicism, the view on which all mathematical truths are logical truths. It was in part thanks to the advances made in PM that, despite its defects, numerous advances in meta-logic were made, including Gödel's incompleteness theorems. The scholarly, historical, and philosophical interest in PM is great and ongoing: for example, the Modern Library ranked it 23rd in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century.

Erziehung und Bildung stehen im Blickpunkt gesellschaftlicher, politischer und wissenschaftlicher Diskussion. Dem brisanten Thema stellt sich seit jeher auch die Philosophie. Ein moderner Klassiker der Erziehungs- und Bildungsphilosophie ist Alfred North Whitehead. In den vorliegenden Essays, die nun erstmals in deutscher Sprache erscheinen, befaßt sich der berühmte Philosoph mit zentralen Aspekten der Wissensvermittlung und Denkorganisation, dem Anspruch an Bildungsinstitutionen, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Herausforderungen sowie der Kultivierung von Ideen. Die Texte verbinden sich zu einer Erziehungs- und Bildungskonzeption, die den Lernenden als einen mit seiner Umwelt interagierenden Organismus versteht und nichts an Aktualität eingebüßt hat.

"So, wie wir denken, leben wir. Darum ist das Sammeln philosophischer Ideen mehr als ein Studium für Spezialisten. Es formt unseren Typ der Zivilisation."Alfred North WhiteheadDer englische Philosoph Alfred North Whitehead gilt heute als bedeutendster Erneuerer der Metaphysik und Naturphilosophie im 20. Jahrhundert. Denkweisen, sein letztes großes Werk, beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Aufgabe der Philosophie in jenem schöpferischen und kulturellen Prozeß zukommt, den wir als Zivilisation bezeichnen. Whiteheads Buch ist ein leidenschaftliches Plädoyer für die Kraft der Spekulation als grundlegende Weise philosophischen Denkens.Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) widmete sich nach Grundlagenarbeiten über die Mathematik naturphilosophischen Fragen. Nach seiner Auswanderung nach Amerika entwickelte Whitehead eine Prozeßmetaphysik, die zuerst in Wissenschaft und moderne Welt (stw 753) und dann insbesondere in Prozeß und Realität (stw 690) und Abenteuer der Ideen (stw 1498) ausgearbeitet wurde. Zuletzt erschien Kulturelle Symbolisierung (stw 1497).

"Ich habe versucht, einen Bericht über ein großes Abenteuer im Reich des Denkens zu geben. Alle Völker Westeuropas hatten daran teil. Es entwickelte sich mit der Langsamkeit einer Massenbewegung. Seine Zeiteinheit ist ein halbes Jahrhundert. Der Bericht ist die Erzählung über eine Episode im Sichtbarwerden der Vernunft. Er zeigt, wie eine besondere Richtung der Vernunft aufgrund der langen Vorarbeit früherer Epochen in einem Volk auftaucht, wie sich ihr Thema nach ihrer Geburt langsam entfaltet, wie sie ihre Triumphe feiert, wie ihr Einfluß sogar die Motive menschlichen Handelns formt und wie sich schließlich im Augenlick ihres größten Erfolges ihre Grenzen zeigen und erneut nach kreativer Phantasie verlangen." Alfred N. Whitehead

»Die Philosophie kehrt das Verfahren der Wissenschaft um. Die Wissenschaft kann nur endliche Züge, Eigenschaften oder Beziehungen an den wirklichen Dingen zu begreifen und zu erfassen trachten. Damit entfernt sie sich von der Realität, wie sie in unserer Erfahrung aufscheint. Die Philosophie hat diese Erfahrung in gewisser Weise zurückzugewinnen, aber sie muß ihr begrifflichen Ausdruck geben, und sie muß es über Begriffe tun, die der inneren Unendlich-keit der Erfahrungen gerecht werden. Eben dies beansprucht Whitehead mit seinem System von Kategorien zu leisten. In ihnen soll schlechthin alles inter-pretierbar sein, die volle Wirklichkeit ohne jeden Abzug. - Man mache sich klar, was damit gesagt und gefordert ist: Erfahrung soll in ihrer ganzen Fülle genommen werden, das ist sein Anspruch an die Philosophie,und es ist, in seinem Verständnis, derAnspruch derPhilosophie.« Jürgen von Kempski

The great three-volume Principia Mathematica is deservedly the most famous work ever written on the foundations of mathematics. Its aim is to deduce all the fundamental propositions of logic and mathematics from a small number of logical premisses and primitive ideas, and so to prove that mathematics is a development of logic. This abridged text of Volume I contains the material that is most relevant to an introductory study of logic and the philosophy of mathematics (more advanced students will wish to refer to the complete edition). It contains the whole of the preliminary sections (which present the authors' justification of the philosophical standpoint adopted at the outset of their work); the whole of Part 1 (in which the logical properties of propositions, propositional functions, classes and relations are established); section 6 of Part 2 (dealing with unit classes and couples); and Appendices A and B (which give further developments of the argument on the theory of deduction and truth functions).

When The Concept of Nature by Alfred North Whitehead was first published in 1920 it was declared to be one of the most important works on the relation between philosophy and science for many years, and several generations later it continues to deserve careful attention. Whitehead explores the fundamental problems of substance, space and time, and offers a criticism of Einstein's method of interpreting results while developing his own well-known theory of the four-dimensional 'space-time manifold'. With a specially commissioned new preface written by Michael Hampe, this book is presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century for a new generation of readers.

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.Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead includes chapters on creative impulses and activities as well as the overall aim of philosophy.

Presents the texts of a series of lectures delivered between 1912 and 1928 on the purposes and practice of education.

An Unabridged, Unaltered Printing Of Volume I of III: Part I - MATHEMATICAL LOGIC - The Theory Of Deduction - Theory Of Apparent Variables - Classes And Relations - Logic And Relations - Products And Sums Of Classes - Part II - PROLEGOMENA TO CARDINAL ARITHMETIC - Unit Classes And Couples - Sub-Classes, Sub-Relations, And Relative Types - One-Many, Many-One, And One-One Relations - Selections - Inductive Relations

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First published as part of the Cambridge Miscellany series in 1934, this book presents the content of two lectures delivered by Alfred North Whitehead at the University of Chicago in October 1933. The volume concerns itself chiefly with the complex relationship between nature, philosophy and science.