In his spirited attack on what he characterizes as anti-reform forces in math education (“Mathematics and the Pure in Heart,” Feb. 28, 2007), T.C. O’Brien speculates that the British mathematician ...

THEHE are men who cherish what ought to be. There are others who stress what is. The former are moralists, the latter scientists. Alfred North Whitehead was something of both, as a philosopher should ...

THIS volume provides a guide to Whitehead's published writings, an explanatory commentary upon them, and criticisms of the objections to which they may be considered to lie open. It had been hoped ...

Alfred North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, and for many years prominent in international philosophical circles, died last Tuesday morning in his suite at the Ambassador Hotel in ...

"The three books--Science and the modern world, Process and reality, Adventures of ideas-- ... supplement each other's omissions or compressions."--Pref. siris_sil_519021 ...

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Alfred North Whitehead was, for the majority of Harvard students, no more than a name uttered reverently in the comparative sanctity of seminar or professorial conference. His work in the field of ...