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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1985. The second volume of Victor Lowe's definitive work on Alfred North Whitehead completes the biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential yet least understood philosophers. In 1910 Whitehead abruptly ended his thirty-year association with Trinity College of Cambridge and moved to London. The intellectual and personal restlessness that precipitated this move ultimately led Whiteheadat the age of sixty-threeto settle in America and change the focus of his work from mathematics to philosophy. Volume 2 of Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work follows Whitehead's journey to the United States and analyzes his expanding intellectual life. Although Whitehead wrote philosophy based on natural science while still in London, he began his most important work shortly after moving to Harvard in 1924. Science and the Modern World appeared in 1925, Religion in the Making in 1926, Symbolism in 1927, and Process and Reality in 1929. Discussing these and
Trade ReviewA very readable biography of one of the twentieth century's most powerful philosophers.
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IsisTable of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Whiteheads
Chapter 3. Childhood
Chapter 4. Sherborne
Chapter 5. Student at Cambridge
Chapter 6. Mathematics at Cambridge
Chapter 7. The Cambridge Apostles
Chapter 8. The Young Mathematician
Chapter 9. Whitehead's Thirtieth Year
Chapter 10. The Married Mathematician
Chapter 11. Bertrand Russell
Chapter 12. Principia Mathematica
Chapter 13. Principia Mathematica (Continued)
Chapter 14. "On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World"
Chapter 15. Last Years in Cambridge
Notes
Bibliography
Index
