Maxwell’s Field and Whitehead’s Events: The Adventure of a Revolutionary Idea

In Pierfrancisco Basile & Michel Weber (eds.), Subjectivity, Process and Rationality. Frankfurt, Germany: pp. 177-189 (2007)
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This paper examines J. C. Maxwell’s electromagnetic field as the key idea for the development of A. N. Whitehead's event ontology. Whitehead viewed Maxwell's electromagnetism as the most revolutionary development of modern physics whereby events rather than substances become the basic units of reality.

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