johnmiceeee/5503h1 huggingface dataset:
user: What other fields have shown more recent interest in Whitehead's work?

assistant: ecology, physics, biology, education, economics, and psychology
user: Where were the first followers mainly found?

assistant: at the University of Chicago's Divinity School
user: Who began the interest in Whitehead at Chicago's Divinity School?

assistant: Henry Nelson Wieman
user: Who id the most well-known Whitehead scholar?

assistant: John B. Cobb
user: What professors established the importance of Whitehead's work?

assistant: Wieman, Charles Hartshorne, Bernard Loomer, Bernard Meland, and Daniel Day Williams
user: What challenges are China using Whitehead's ideas to help manage?

assistant: modernization and industrialization
user: What types of traditions are China blending with Whitehead's "constructive post-modern" philosophy?

assistant: traditions of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism
user: What philosphers' writings are becoming required reading for graduate students in China?

assistant: John Cobb and David Ray Griffin
user: Why does John Cobb believe China has become interested in process philosophy?

assistant: interdependence of humanity and nature, as well as his emphasis on an educational system that includes the teaching of values rather than simply bare facts
user: what is an example of Whitehead's ideas being counter-intuitive?

assistant: his assertion that matter is an abstraction
user: Why do some people believe Whitehead's writings may have restricted his influence?

assistant: the sheer difficulty and density of his prose
user: What is a common opinion of metaphysics?

assistant: perception of metaphysics itself as passé
user: What is the general opinion of Whitehead in most philosophical schools?

assistant: Whitehead has not been recognized as particularly influential within the most dominant philosophical schools
user: What pragmatists did Whitehead acknowledge in the preface to "Process and Reality"?

assistant: William James and John Dewey
user: Who is a philosopher that promotes process philosophy and pragmatism currently?

assistant: Nicholas Rescher
user: What founder of pragmatism's collected papers did Charles Hartshorne ans Paul Weiss edit?

assistant: Charles Sanders Peirce
user: What important neopragmatist was Harthorne's student?

assistant: Richard Rorty
user: How was Whitehead's theory of gravitation received?

assistant: It has been severely criticized
user: What physicists in the field of quantum theory have been influenced by Whitehead?

assistant: Henry Stapp and David Bohm
user: What affect  did the discovery of gravitational waves have on Whitehead's theory?

assistant: Whitehead's view has now been rendered obsolete, with the discovery of gravitational waves
user: What are gravitational waves?

assistant: phenonena observed locally that largely violate the kind of local flatness of space that Whitehead assumes
user: How must Whiteheads cosmology now be considered?

assistant: Whitehead's cosmology must be regarded as a local approximation
user: What award did Cobb and Daly receive for the book?

assistant: Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order
user: What was the first book on environmental ethics by an individual author?

assistant: Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology
user: On which economics book did Cobb collaborate with Herman Daly?

assistant: For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
user: What other economics book did Cobb go on to author?

assistant: Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy
user: What was the goal of Cobb's second book on economics?

assistant: to challenge "economists' zealous faith in the great god of growth."
user: Who established the FEELS model in China?

assistant: Xie Bangxiu
user: What does "FEELS" stand for?

assistant: Flexible-goals, Engaged-learner, Embodied-knowledge, Learning-through-interactions, and Supportive-teacher
user: What is the purpose of the FEELS model?

assistant: It is used for understanding and evaluating educational curriculum under the assumption that the purpose of education is to "help a person become whole."
user: What entities are working together to promote the FEELS model?

assistant: Chinese government organizations and the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China
user: What prominent business professor has been heavily influenced by Whitehead?

assistant: Mark Dibben
user: What does Dibben call his philosophy on management and business administration?

assistant: "applied process thought"
user: In what fields has Dibben published two books and other papers?

assistant: philosophy of management and business ethics
user: What business fields has Whitehead influenced?

assistant: philosophy of business administration and organizational theory
user: According to Dibben, what are the benefits of applying process metaphysics to examining management and business administration as a component of social science?

assistant: this allows "a comprehensive exploration of life as perpetually active experiencing, as opposed to occasional – and thoroughly passive – happening."
user: During which decade did Whitehead's focus start shifting away from mathematics?

assistant: 1910s
user: After moving away from mathematics, what subjects did Whitehead explore?

assistant: philosophy of science, and finally to metaphysics
user: As opposed to physical objects, what did Whitehead believe reality is composed of?

assistant: processes
user: What was the predominant theory of reality that Whitehead opposed?

assistant: reality is fundamentally constructed by bits of matter that exist independently of one another
user: What book of Whitehead's is now considered a primary source of process philosophy?

assistant: Process and Reality
user: Where was Alfred North Whitehead born?

assistant: Ramsgate, Kent, England
user: Who founded Chatham House Academy?

assistant: Thomas Whitehead, Alfred North's grandfather
user: What was Whitehead's father's profession?

assistant: minister and schoolmaster of Chatham House Academy
user: Who was Whitehead's mother?

assistant: Maria Sarah Whitehead, formerly Maria Sarah Buckmaster
user: Where was Alfred North Whitehead born? 

assistant: Ramsgate, Kent, England
user: What was Whitehead's mother's name?

assistant: Maria Sarah Whitehead,
user: In which educational system was Whitehead employed in the late 1910s?

assistant: University of London system
user: What was Whitehead's title at the University of London in late 1918?

assistant: Dean of the Faculty of Science
user: What was Whitehead's last position before he traveled to America?

assistant: chairman of the Senate's Academic (leadership) Council
user: What degree program did Whitehead contribute to establishing at University of London?

assistant: Bachelor of Science
user: What was he elected at the University of London?

assistant: Dean of the Faculty of Science
user: Who authored Whitehead's biography that is considered to be the most reliable description of Whitehead's life?

assistant: Victor Lowe
user: Why was no Nachlass left behind after Whitehead's death?

assistant: his family carried out his instructions that all of his papers be destroyed after his death
user: What was Whitehead's opinion on privacy?

assistant: almost fanatical belief in the right to privacy
user: What did the author of Whitehead's biography comment on the first page regarding the difficulty of obtaining information about Whitehead?

assistant: "No professional biographer in his right mind would touch him."
user: What was Whitehead's wish upon his death for his family?

assistant: all of his papers be destroyed after his death.
user: What did Whitehead believe in so profusely that it was difficult to write a biography on him?

assistant: right to privacy
user: What was Whitehead's first published book on mathematics?

assistant: A Treatise on Universal Algebra
user: With what mathematician and philosopher did Whitehead collaborate to write Principia Mathematica?

assistant: Bertrand Russell
user: Who was the intended audience of Whitehead's first two mathematics books?

assistant: professional mathematicians
user: What is the significance of Principia Mathematica currently?

assistant: regarded as one of the most important works in mathematical logic of the 20th century
user: Who co-wrote Principia Mathematica with Whitehead?

assistant: Bertrand Russell
user: Which of Whitehead's books is known as one of the most important works in mathematical logical?

assistant: Principia Mathematica
user: What did Lie algebras and hyperbolic quaternions demonstrate a need for?

assistant: the need to expand algebraic structures beyond the associatively multiplicative class
user: How did Alexander Macfarlane summarize the relationship between different methods in "A Treatise on Algebra" in his review?

assistant: comparative study of their several structures
user: What was G.B. Matthew's opinion of "A Treatise on Algebra"?

assistant: "It possesses a unity of design which is really remarkable, considering the variety of its themes."
user: Lie algebras and hypobolic quanternions drew attention to the need for what?

assistant: expand algebraic structures
user: What did reviewer GB Mathews say algebraic structures possessed? 

assistant: unity of design
user: Reviewer Alexander Macfarlane believed that the main idea of the work is a comparative study of what?

assistant: several structures
user: How long did Whitehead and Russell expect to spend creating Principia Mathematica?

assistant: a year
user: How long did it actually take to complete Principia Mathematica? 

assistant: ten years
user: Why was there a funding shortfall for the publishing of Princpia Mathematica? 

assistant: the three-volume work was so massive (more than 2,000 pages) and its audience so narrow (professional mathematicians)
user: Who supplied the funding to cover the shortfall?

assistant: 00 of which was paid by Cambridge University Press, 200 by the Royal Society of London, and 50 apiece by Whitehead and Russell
user: How prevalent is Principia Mathematica today?

assistant: today there is likely no major academic library in the world which does not hold a copy of Principia Mathematica
user: How long did Whitehead and Russell think it would take them to complete Principia Mathematica?

assistant: a year
user: How long did it actually take Whitehead and Russell to complete Principia Mathematica?

assistant: ten years
user: What is the general opinion of the difficulty level of Whitehead's work in philosophy?

assistant: generally considered to be among the most difficult to understand in all of the western canon
user: What lectures did Whitehead present in 1927-28?

assistant: Gifford lectures
user: Following Arthur Eddington's lectures, what did Whitehead  publish?

assistant: Process and Reality
user: When did Whitehead delivery the Gifford lectures?

assistant: 1927–28
user: In all of the western canon, what is Whitehead's work considered?

assistant: the most difficult to understand
user: What affect did Matthews' opinion of the difficulty of Whitehead's works have on his interest in them?

assistant: Mathews' frustration with Whitehead's books did not negatively affect his interest
user: How did many philosophers and theologians at Chicago's Divinity School view Whitehead's work?

assistant: perceived the importance of what Whitehead was doing without fully grasping all of the details and implications
user: What expert on Whitehead delivered a lecture at the school to explain Whitehead's ideas?

assistant: Henry Nelson Wieman
user: What was the result of that lecture?

assistant: Wieman's lecture was so brilliant that he was promptly hired to the faculty and taught there for twenty years
user: Who was frustrated in Whitehead's books but still interested?

assistant: Mathews
user: What school recognized the importance of Whitehead's work?

assistant: Chicago's Divinity School
user: When was Henry Nelson Wieman invited to the Chicago Divinity school?

assistant: 1927
user: Who was invited to the Chicago Divinity school as one of Whitehead's only experts?

assistant: Henry Nelson Wieman
user: What happened after Henry Nelson Wieman gave a lecture about Whitehead?

assistant: hired
user: How has "Process and Reality" been described? 

assistant: "arguably the most impressive single metaphysical text of the twentieth century,"
user: What did Isabelle Stengers say is the reason that "Process and Reality" is not commonly read and understood?

assistant: it demands – as Isabelle Stengers puts it – "that its readers accept the adventure of the questions that will separate them from every consensus."
user: What effect did Whitehead have on the future of metaphysics?

assistant: he managed to anticipate a number of 21st century scientific and philosophical problems and provide novel solutions.
user: Who thought Process and Reality was little-read because the reader has to separate them from normal thought?

assistant: Isabelle Stengers
user: What philosophy in the west was challenged by Whitehead?

assistant: how the universe works
user: What was Whitehead's philosophy able to anticipate for the 21st century?

assistant: scientific and philosophical problems
user: What was the outcome of anticipating the scientific and philosophical problems Whitehead proposed?

assistant: novel solutions
user: What did Whitehead believe regarding creativity?

assistant: creativity is the absolute principle of existence
user: An entity is a sum of relations, a valuation of them and what else?

assistant: reaction to them.
user: All entities, being unable to predict behavior, are because of what?

assistant: the fundamental creativity/freedom of all entities
user: Not being able to predict what any entity is going to do is what principle b Whitehead?

assistant: creativity is the absolute principle of existence
user: Other than the combination of its relations, what else defines an entity?

assistant: an entity is not merely a sum of its relations, but also a valuation of them and reaction to them
user: What did Whitehead believe about an entity's relation to other entities?

assistant: has some degree of novelty in how it responds to other entities, and is not fully determined by causal or mechanistic laws
user: What is the origin of the word "prehension"?

assistant: comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning "to seize."
user: What is a basic description of the theory of representative perception?

assistant: the mind only has private ideas about other entities
user: What term did Whitehead describe that perception is not limited to the living?

assistant: prehension
user: What does the word "Prehensio" translate into?

assistant: to seize
user: What is prehension used to define?

assistant: a kind of perception that can be conscious or unconscious, applying to people as well as electrons
user: What does the term "prehension" signify regarding an entities perceptions and relations?

assistant: entities are constituted by their perceptions and relations, rather than being independent of them
user: What did Whitehead state are the two types of perception?

assistant: causal efficacy (or "physical prehension") and presentational immediacy (or "conceptual prehension")
user: How do the senses affect causal efficacy?

assistant: unmediated by the senses
user: What can be said about the accuracy of presentational immediacy?

assistant: it is pure appearance, which may or may not be delusive
user: What is the term for the experience dominating primitive organisms that have a sense for fate?

assistant: causal efficacy
user: What is the other term for "pure sense perception"?

assistant: Presentational immediacy
user: What is it called if you mistake a reflection in a mirror for the real thing?

assistant: Presentational immediacy
user: How does Whitehead define causal efficacy?

assistant: "the experience dominating the primitive living organisms, which have a sense for the fate from which they have emerged, and the fate towards which they go."
user: How does Whitehead define presentational immediacy?

assistant: "pure sense perception", unmediated by any causal or symbolic interpretation, even unconscious interpretation
user: Which concept does Whitehead state is more dominant in a lower mentality?

assistant: causal relationships
user: What is Whitehead's term for the two modes of perceptions combining?

assistant: symbolic reference
user: What is the purpose of symbolic reference?

assistant: links appearance with causation in a process that is so automatic that both people and animals have difficulty refraining from it
user: How does Whitehead describe the process of a typical person noticing a chair?

assistant: An ordinary person looks up, sees a colored shape, and immediately infers that it is a chair
user: How might an artist view a chair differently than a typical person?

assistant: "might have stopped at the mere contemplation of a beautiful color and a beautiful shape."
user: How does Whitehead say a dog may interpret the presence of a chair?

assistant: "would have acted immediately on the hypothesis of a chair and would have jumped onto it by way of using it as such."
user: What observation did Whitehead make about life?

assistant: "life is comparatively deficient in survival value."
user: What did Whitehead state was the biggest indicator of a higher form of life?

assistant: they are actively engaged in modifying their environment
user: What did Whitehead believe are the goals f life?

assistant: living, living well, and living better
user: What did Whitehead believe was the fundamental purpose of life?

assistant: increasing its own satisfaction
user: Without Whitehead's proposed purpose, life would be what?

assistant: unintelligible
user: What was Whitehead's response to questions about why complex life evolved?

assistant: "they certainly did not appear because they were better at that game than the rocks around them."
user: What was Whitehead's description of God?

assistant: "the brief Galilean vision of humility"
user: What is Whitehead's most well-known critical statement regarding the Christian notion of God?

assistant: "the Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar."
user: What qualities dis Whitehead state that Christians attributed to their version of God?

assistant: primarily a divine king who imposes his will on the world, and whose most important attribute is power
user: What was Whitehead's belief about God in relation to religion?

assistant: God is not necessarily tied to religion
user: In what did Whitehead believe that those concepts existed?

assistant: primordial nature of God
user: What did Whitehead view as the second nature of God?

assistant: the consequent nature
user: Why did Whitehead view the existence of God as a necessity for his metaphysical system?

assistant: His system required that an order exist among possibilities, an order that allowed for novelty in the world and provided an aim to all entities.
user: How does Whitehead define he consequent nature of God?

assistant: God's reception of the world's activity
user: What does Whitehead say that God does with all experiences?

assistant: God saves and cherishes all experiences forever
user: How does Whitehead describe the judgment of God?

assistant: It is the judgment of a tenderness which loses nothing that can be saved.
user: What effect does Whitehead claim that experiences have on God?

assistant: those experiences go on to change the way God interacts with the world
user: What conclusion does Whitehead draw about God's treatment of humans' experiences?

assistant: God is really changed by what happens in the world and the wider universe, lending the actions of finite creatures an eternal significance.
user: In what way did Whitehead view God as deficient?

assistant: deficient in actuality and change
user: What did Whitehead claim God would be without the world?

assistant: merely eternally unrealized possibilities
user: How does Whitehead view the relationship between God an the world?

assistant: Whitehead thus sees God and the world as fulfilling one another
user: How does he define entities' need for God?

assistant: He sees entities in the world as fluent and changing things that yearn for a permanence which only God can provide
user: How dis Whitehead believe God provided permanence to entities?

assistant: by taking them into God's self, thereafter changing God and affecting the rest of the universe throughout time
user: What is Whitehead's most famous statement on religion?

assistant: "religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness ... and if you are never solitary, you are never religious."
user: How did Whitehead define religion?

assistant: a system of general truths that transformed a person's character
user: How did Whitehead define "dangerous delusion" as it relates to religion?

assistant: while religion is often a good influence, it is not necessarily good
user: What realization did Whitehead believe religion made necessary?

assistant: "the value of the objective world which is a community derivative from the interrelations of its component individuals."
user: What did Whitehead believe was necessary for an entity to have meaning and value?

assistant: meaning and value do not exist for the individual alone, but only in the context of the universal community
user: How does Whitehead describe religion as world-loyalty?

assistant: The spirit at once surrenders itself to this universal claim and appropriates it for itself
user: What did Whitehead believe was the relationship between the individual and social aspects of religion?

assistant: the individual and universal/social aspects of religion are mutually dependent
user: Where has interest outside of those areas mainly come from?

assistant: through the work of his students and admirers rather
user: What French sociologist and anthropologist stated that Whitehead was "the greatest philosopher of the 20th century"?

assistant: Bruno Latour
user: Where are Whitehead's works primarily studied in English-speaking countries?

assistant: Claremont and a select number of liberal graduate-level theology and philosophy programs
user: Who are two of Whitehead's students that have gone on to become renowned in the field of analytic philosophy?

assistant: Bertrand Russell, and he also taught and supervised the dissertation of Willard Van Orman Quine
user: What did Gilles Deleuze say about Whitehead?

assistant: "he stands provisionally as the last great Anglo-American philosopher before Wittgenstein's disciples spread their misty confusion, sufficiency, and terror."
user: In what field of study has Whitehead's work been most influential in the United States?

assistant: American progressive theology
user: Who was the most important early supporter of Whitehead's work in the context of theology?

assistant: Charles Hartshorne
user: What advancement of Whitehead's process philosophy is attributed to Charles Hartshorne?

assistant: developing Whitehead's process philosophy into a full-blown process theology
user: Who are some other distinguished process theologians?

assistant: John B. Cobb, Jr., David Ray Griffin, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, C. Robert Mesle, Roland Faber, and Catherine Keller
user: What aspect of God is usually emphasized in process theology?

assistant: God's relational nature
user: How is God usually perceived by process theologians?

assistant: "the fellow sufferer who understands", and as the being who is supremely affected by temporal events
user: Why did Hartshorne feel that God must be affected by people?

assistant: people would not praise a human ruler who was unaffected by either the joys or sorrows of his followers – so why would this be a praise-worthy quality in God?
user: Why would God being substantially affected by the world be beneficial?

assistant: as the being who is most affected by the world, God is the being who can most appropriately respond to the world
user: What type of process theology does C. Robert Mesle promote?

assistant: "process naturalism", i.e. a process theology without God.
user: What subjects has John B. Cobb, Jr. written books on other than process theology?

assistant: biology and economics