# Alfred North Whitehead

| Alfred North Whitehead |
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| Filozofija 20. vijeka |
| Zapadna filozofija |
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| Biografske informacije |
| Rođenje | (1861-februara-15)15. februara 1861. Ramsgate, Kent, Engleska, UK |
| Smrt | 30. decembra 1947. (dob: 86) Cambridge, Massachusetts, SAD |
| Državljanstvo | Britanac Amerikanac |
| Obrazovanje |
| *Alma mater* | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Filozofija |
| Glavni interesi | metafizika, matematika |
| Znamenite ideje |
| procesna filozofija, procesna teologija |
| Inspiracija |
| proširi
Od
* Aristotel, Henri Bergson, Francis Herbert Bradley John Dewey, David Hume, William James, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Locke, Isaac Newton, Platon, George Santayana
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| proširi
Na
* Terence McKenna, Wilfred Eade Agar, Ian Barbour, Charles Birch, David Bohm, Joseph A. Bracken, C. D. Broad, Milič Čapek, Philip Clayton, John Cobb, Monica Coleman, Gilles Deleuze, Philippe Devaux, Dorothy Emmet, Bruce G. Epperly, Roland Faber, Franklin I. Gamwell, David Ray Griffin, Charles Hartshorne, Nancy R. Howell, Hans Jonas, Mordecai Kaplan, William E. Kaufman, Catherine Keller, Jean Ladrière, Susanne Langer, Ervin László, Bruno Latour, Bernard Loomer, Charles Malik, Jay McDaniel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, C. Robert Mesle, H. Richard Niebuhr, Reinhold Niebuhr, F. S. C. Northrop, Schubert M. Ogden, Thomas Jay Oord, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Talcott Parsons, Luis G. Pedraja, Norman Pittenger, Ilya Prigogine, W. V. O. Quine, Nicholas Rescher, Bertrand Russell, B. F. Skinner, Wolfgang Smith, Isabelle Stengers, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, John Lighton Synge, William Irwin Thompson, Jules Vuillemin, Conrad Hal Waddington, Jean Wahl, Michel Weber, Paul Weiss, Henry Nelson Wieman, Daniel Day Williams, Sewall Wright
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**Alfred North Whitehead** (Ramsgate, 15. 2. 1861. – Cambridge, 30. 12. 1947), britansko-američki filozof, fizičar i matematičar.

Radio je na polju logičke, matematičke i filozofske nauke, te metafizike. Najbolje je poznat po svome radu na *Principa Matematica* koju je napisao u suradnji s Bertrandom Russellom. Matematikom se pretežno bavio za svoga boravka u Cambridgeu, a nakon što 1924. odlazi na Harvard započinje sa razvojem procesne filozofije (*process philosophy*). Godine 1927. drži niz predavanja na Univerzitetu u Edinburgu iz kojih nastaje njegovo cijenjeno djelo Proces i Stvarnost (*Process and Reality*). Unatoč tome što je djelovao na mnogim naučnim poljima i u njima ostavio svoj trag, Whiteheada se smatra jednim od najzanemarivanijih mislilaca 20. vijeka.

## Opus

Djelomična lista djela:

* *A Treatise on Universal Algebra*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898. ISBN 1-4297-0032-7.
* *The Axioms of Descriptive Geometry*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907.
* koautor: Bertrand Russell. *Principia Mathematica, Volume I*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910. Vol. 1–\*56.
* *An Introduction to Mathematics*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911. Vol. 56, serija *Great Books of the Western World*.
* koautor: Bertrand Russell. *Principia Mathematica, Volume II*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912.
* koautor: Bertrand Russell. *Principia Mathematica, Volume III*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913.
* *The Organization of Thought Educational and Scientific*. London: Williams & Norgate, 1917.
* *An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1919.
* *The Concept of Nature*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920.
* *The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922.
* *Science and the Modern World*. New York: Macmillan Company, 1925. Vol. 55, serija *Great Books of the Western World*.
* *Religion in the Making*. New York: Macmillan Company, 1926.
* *Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect*. New York: Macmillan Company, 1927.
* *Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology*. New York: Macmillan Company, 1929.
* *The Aims of Education and Other Essays*. New York: Macmillan Company, 1929.
* *The Function of Reason*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1929.
* *Adventures of Ideas*. New York: Macmillan Company, 1933.; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933.
* *Nature and Life*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934.
* *Modes of Thought*. New York: Macmillan Company, 1938.
* "Mathematics and the Good." u *The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead*, ur. Paul Arthur Schilpp, 666–681. Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1941.
* "Immortality." u *The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead*, ur. Paul Arthur Schilpp, 682–700. Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1941.
* *Essays in Science and Philosophy*. London: Philosophical Library, 1947.
* koautor: Allison Heartz Johnson, ur. *The Wit and Wisdom of Whitehead*. Boston: Beacon Press, 1947.

## Izvori

## Vanjske veze

* članak u Stanfordovskoj enciklopediji filozofije
* Vajthedov princip relativnosti- predavanja J. L. Synge-a na arXiv.org