Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947)

  • Philosophy of Science

    Thereby, trendy philosophy has been ruined. It's oscillated in a very complicated manner between 3 extremes. I hold that philosophy is that the critique of abstractions. Once Whitehead came to Harvard in 1924, he felt duty-bound to pay his time reading and teaching philosophy, instead of the theoretical physics he had been teaching in London, when teaching arithmetic at Cambridge. Consequently, his information of physics began to be out of date.
  • Religion 1926

    Religion is by no means that essentially smart. It should be terribly evil. (1926)
    In considering faith, we must always not be obsessed by the thought of its necessary goodness. This is often a dangerous delusion. (1926)
    faith will be “positive or negative, smart or bad” (1926) Religion in the Making, (Lowell Institute Lectures 1926), New York: The Macmillan Company. Reprinted New York: Fordham University Press, 1996. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7r9UOY9Z2U
  • philosophy of science

    Methodology, that depends on our perception, not solely of sense knowledge however conjointly of a manifold of natural relations, And an electrodynamics-like worldview, during which the basic ideas are not any longer merely situated substances in orbits of matter, however internally connected processes and events. Nature and Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reprinted Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Philosophy of Science

    “Modern physical science”, Whitehead wrote, is that the issue of a coordinated effort, sustained for over 3 centuries, to know those activities of Nature by reason of that the transitions of sense perception occur. The lesson that Whitehead learned from the idea of electromagnetism is unambiguous, the basic idea's area unit activity and method. Nature and Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reprinted, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.