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5. Whitehead’s Biological Turn

From the book Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925

  • Dennis Sölch
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474459426-009
© 2022, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
From the book
Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925
Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925

Chapters in this book (25)

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface: A Brief History of the Critical Edition of Whitehead
Introduction: Tales from the Whitehead Mines – On Whitehead, His Students and the Challenges of Editing the Critical Edition
Part I: The First Lecture
1. First Lecture: September, 1924
2. Examining Whitehead’s ‘First Lecture: September, 1924’
Part II: The Fitness of the Environment
3. Whitehead and His Philosophy of Evolution
4. Some Clarifications on Evolution and Time
5. Whitehead’s Biological Turn
Part III: Physics and Relativity
6. Quanta and Corpuscles: The Infl uence of Quantum Mechanical Ideas on Whitehead’s Transitional Philosophy in Light of The Harvard Lectures
7. From Physics to Philosophy, and from Continuity to Atomicity
8. Whitehead’s Highly Speculative Lectures on Quantum Theory
9. On Herstein’s ‘Quanta and Corpuscles’
10. Reply to Desmet
Part IV: Whitehead’s Philosophical Context
11. Whitehead and Kant at Copenhagen
12. Whitehead’s Early Harvard Period, Hartshorne and the Transcendental Project
13. Footnotes to Plato
Part V: Metaphysical Reflections
14. Diagrams and Myths
15. How ‘Eternity’ Got ‘Thrown Forward’ Into ‘Perishing’
Part VI: Reinterpreting Whitehead
16. Uncovering a ‘New’ Whitehead
17. Whitehead in Class: Do the Harvard-Radcliffe Course Notes Change How We Understand Whitehead’s Thought?
Notes on Contributors
Index
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