{"product_id":"whitehead-at-harvard-19241925-9781474461351","title":"Whitehead at Harvard 19241925","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead's first year of philosophy lectures. Also included in this volume is the text of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, allowing for a clearer understanding of Whitehead's plans and goals for his first philosophy lectures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; A Brief History of the Critical Edition of Whitehead, Brian G. Henning; Introduction; Tales from the Whitehead Mines: On Whitehead, His Students, and the challenges of Editing the Critical Edition, Joseph Petek; Part I: The First Lecture; 1. First lecture: September, 1924, Alfred North Whitehead; 2. Examining Whitehead’s ‘First lecture: September, 1924, Paul A. Bogaard; Part II: The Fitness of the Environment; 3. Whitehead and his Philosophy of Evolution, Paul A. Bogaard; 4. Some Clarifications on Evolution and Time, Maria-Teresa Teixeira; 5. Whitehead’s Biological Turn, Dennis Sölch; Part III: Physics and Relativity; 6. Quanta and Corpuscles: The Influence of Quantum Mechanical Ideas on Whitehead's Transitional Philosophy in Light of The Harvard Lectures, Gary L. Herstein; 7.\tFrom Physics to Philosophy, and from Continuity to Atomicity,Ronny Desmet; 8. Whitehead’s Highly Speculative Lectures on Quantum Theory, Ronny Desmet; 9.\tOn Herstein’s ‘Quanta and Corpuscles’, Ronny Desmet; 10. Reply to Desmet, Gary L. Herstein; Part IV: Whitehead’s Philosophical Context; 11. Whitehead and Kant at Copenhagenm, Jason Bell, Seshu Iyengar; 12. Whitehead’s Early Harvard Period, Hartshorne, and the Transcendental Project, George W. Shields; 13. Footnotes to Plato, Aljoscha Berve; Part V: Metaphysical Reflections; 14. Diagrams and Myths, George Allan; 15. How ‘Eternity’ got ‘Thrown Forward’ into ‘Perishing’, Jude Jones; Part VI: Reinterpreting Whitehead; 16. Uncovering a ‘New’ Whitehead, George R. Lucas, Jr; 17. Whitehead in Class: Do the Harvard-Radcliffe Course Notes Change How we Understand Whitehead’s Thought?, Brian G. Henning; Notes on Contributors; Index.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408879886679,"sku":"9781474461351","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474461351.jpg?v=1730504543","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/whitehead-at-harvard-19241925-9781474461351","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}