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Primary Literature
- 1898, A Treatise on Universal Algebra with Applications,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[Whitehead 1898 available online]
- 1902, “On Cardinal Numbers”, American Journal of
Mathematics, 24(4): 367–394. doi:10.2307/2370026 (Scholar)
- 1906a, “On Mathematical Concepts of the Material
World”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of
London, Series A, 205(387–401):465–525.
doi:10.1098/rsta.1906.0014 (Scholar)
- 1906b, The Axioms of Projective Geometry, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
[Whitehead 1906b available online]
- 1907, The Axioms of Descriptive Geometry, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
[Whitehead 1907 available online]
- 1910a, “The Philosophy of Mathematics”, Science
Progress in the Twentieth Century, 5: 234–239.
[Whitehead 1910a available online] (Scholar)
- 1910b, 1912, 1913 (with Bertrand Russell), Principia
Mathematica, 3 volumes, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. (Scholar)
- 1911 [1958], An Introduction to Mathematics, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1958.
[Whitehead 1911 available online]
- 1916, “La théorie relationniste de
l’espace”, Revue de Métaphysique et
Morale, 23(3): 423–454.
- 1917 [1974], The Organisation of Thought: Educational and
Scientific, London: Williams and Norgate. Reprinted Westport,
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1974.
[Whitehead 1917 available online]
- 1919a [1982], An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural
Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reprinted New
York: Dover Publications, 1982.
[Whitehead 1919a available online]
- 1919b, “A Revolution of Science”, The Nation
(London), November 15, 26: 232–233. (Scholar)
- 1920 [1986], The Concept of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
[Whitehead 1920 available online]
- 1922 [2004], The Principle of Relativity with Applications to
Physical Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reprinted New York: Dover Publications, 2004.
[Whitehead 1922 available online]
- 1925 [1967], Science and the Modern World, (Lowell
Institute Lectures 1925), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reprinted New York: The Free Press, 1967.
[Whitehead 1926a available online] (Scholar)
- 1926 [1996], Religion in the Making, (Lowell
Institute Lectures 1926), New York: The Macmillan Company. Reprinted
New York: Fordham University Press, 1996. (Scholar)
- 1927 [1985], Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect, New York:
Macmillan. Reprinted New York: Fordham University Press, 1985.
- 1929a, The Aims of Education and Other Essays, New York:
The Macmillan Company.
- 1929b [1958], The Function of Reason, Princeton:
Princeton University Press. Reprinted Boston: Beacon Press, 1958.
- 1929c [1985], Process and Reality, (Gifford Lectures
1927–28), New York: Macmillan. Corrected edition, David Ray
Griffin & Donald W. Sherburne (eds.), New York: The Free Press,
1985. (Scholar)
- 1933 [1967], Adventures of Ideas, New York: Macmillan
Company. Reprinted New York: The Free Press, 1967.
- 1934 [2011], Nature and Life, Chicago: University of
Chicago Press. Reprinted Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2011.
- 1938 [1968], Modes of Thought, New York: Macmillan
Company. Reprinted New York: The Free Press, 1968.
- 1947 [1968], Essays in Science and Philosophy, New York:
Philosophical Library. Reprinted Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood
Press, 1968.
- 1954 [1977], Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien
Price (ed.), Boston: Little Brown. Reprinted Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press.
- 1961, The Interpretation of Science, Selected Essays, A.
H. Johnson, (ed.), New York: Bobbs-Merrill.
- 2017, The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead
1924–1925: Philosophical Presuppositions of Science, (The
Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North
Whitehead), Paul Bogaard & Jason Bell (eds.), Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press. (Scholar)
- 2021, The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead
1925–1927: General Metaphysical Problems of Science,
(The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North
Whitehead), Brian Henning & Joseph Petek & George
Lucas (eds.), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
Secondary Literature
- Armour Lesley, 2010, “Looking for Whitehead”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 18(5): 925–939. doi:10.1080/09608788.2010.524768 (Scholar)
- Athern, Daniel, 2011, “Physics and Whitehead: An Alternative Approach”, Process Studies, 40(1): 80–90. doi:10.5840/process20114014 (Scholar)
- Basile, Pierfrancesco, 2009, Leibniz, Whitehead and the Metaphysics of Causation, London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9780230242197 (Scholar)
- Bostock, David, 2010, “Whitehead and Russell on Points”, Philosophia Mathematica, 18(1): 1–52. doi:10.1093/philmat/nkp017 (Scholar)
- Bright, Laurence, 1958, Whitehead’s Philosophy of
Physics, London: Sheed and Ward. (Scholar)
- Chapman, Siobhan, 2013, Susan Stebbing and the Language of Common Sense, London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137313102 (Scholar)
- Clark, G. L., 1954, “The Problem of Two Bodies in
Whitehead’s Theory”, Proceedings of the Royal Society
of Edinburgh, Series A (Mathematics & Physics) 64(1):
49–56. doi:10.1017/S0080454100007317 (Scholar)
- Cobb, John B., 2007, A Christian Natural Theology: Based on
the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead, second edition,
Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. First edition 1965. (Scholar)
- –––, 2015, Whitehead Word Book: A Glossary
with Alphabetic Index to Technical Terms in Process and Reality,
Anoka, MN: Process Century Press. (Scholar)
- Code, Murray, 1985, Order & Organicism, Albany, NY:
State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
- Collingwood, Robin George, 1945, The Idea of Nature, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Connelly, R. J., 1981, Whitehead vs Hartshorne: Basic
Metaphysical Issues, Washington, DC: University Press of
America. (Scholar)
- Debaise, Didier, 2017a, Speculative Empiricism: Revisiting Whitehead, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2017b, Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible, Durham and London: Duke University Press. (Scholar)
- Deroo, Emeline & Bruno Leclerc (eds.), 2011, Special Issue
on Whitehead’s Early Work, Logique et Analyse,
Nouvelle Série, 54(214). (Scholar)
- Desmet, Ronny, 2010, “Principia Mathematica Centenary”, Process Studies, 39(2): 225–263. doi:10.5840/process201039223 (Scholar)
- –––, 2011, “Putting Whitehead’s
theory of gravitation in its historical context”, Logique et
Analyse, Nouvelle Série, 54(214): 287–315. (Scholar)
- –––, 2016a, “Poincaré and Whitehead
on Intuition and Logic in Mathematics”, Process Studies
Supplements, Issue 22: 1–61. (Scholar)
- –––, 2016b, “Out of Season: Evaluating
Whitehead’s alternative theory of gravitation by means of the
aesthetic criteria induced by Einstein’s general theory of
relativity”, Process Studies Supplements, Issue 23:
1–140. (Scholar)
- –––, 2016c, “Aesthetic Comparison of Einstein’s and Whitehead’s Theories of Gravity”, Process Studies, 45(1): 33–46. doi:10.5840/process20164512 (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2016d, Intuition in Mathematics and Physics: A Whiteheadian Approach, Anoka, MN: Process Century Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2020, “From Physics to Philosophy, and from
Continuity to Atomicity”, in: Henning &
Petek, 2020: 132–153. (Scholar)
- –––, 2020, “Whitehead’s Highly Speculative
Lectures on Quantum Mechanics”, in: Henning &
Petek, 2020: 154–181. (Scholar)
- –––, 2022, “Whitehead’s 1925 View
of Function and Time”, to be published in Process
Studies. (Scholar)
- Desmet, Ronny & Bogdan Rusu, 2012, “Whitehead, Russell, and Moore: Three Analytic Philosophers”, Process Studies, 41(2): 214–234. doi:10.5840/process201241231 (Scholar)
- Desmet, Ronny & Michel Weber (eds.), 2010, Whitehead: The Algebra of Metaphysics, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Les Editions Chromatika. (Scholar)
- Dombrowski, Daniel A., 2017, Whitehead’s Religious Thought:
From Mechanism to Organism, from Force to Persuasion, Albany:
SUNY Press. (Scholar)
- Eastman, Timothy, 2020, Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context, Washington, DC: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
- Eastman, Timothy & Hank Keeton (eds.), 2004, Physics and Whitehead: Quantum, Process and Experience, Albany, NY: State Univeristy of New York Press. (Scholar)
- Eastman, Timothy & Epperson, Michael & Griffin, David Ray (eds.), 2016, Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science, Berlin: de Gruyter. (Scholar)
- Eddington, Arthur, 1918 [2006], Report on the Relativity
Theory of Gravitation, London: Fleetway Press. Reprinted New
York: Dover Publications, 2006.
[Eddington 1918 available online] (Scholar)
- –––, 1924, “Comparison of
Whitehead’s and Einstein’s Formulae”,
Nature, 113(2832): 192. doi:10.1038/113192a0 (Scholar)
- Eisendrath, Craig, 1971, The Unifying Moment: The
Psychological Philosophy of William James and Alfred North
Whitehead, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Emmet, Dorothy, 1932, Whitehead’s Philosophy of
Organism, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
- Epperson, Michael, 2004, Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, New York: Fordham University Press. (Scholar)
- Epperson, Michael & Elias Zafiris, 2013, Foundations of Relational Realism, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
- Fitzgerald, Janet, 1979, Alfred North Whitehead’s Early
Philosophy of Space and Time, Washington. DC: University Press of
America. (Scholar)
- Ford, Lewis, 1984, The Emergence of Whitehead’s
Metaphysics: 1925–1929, Albany, NY: State University of New
York Press. (Scholar)
- Ford, Marcus & Stephen Rowe (eds.), 2017, Educating for an
Ecological Civilization: Interdisciplinary, Experiential, and
Relational Learning, Anoka, MN: Process Century Press. (Scholar)
- Franklin, Stephen T., 1990, Speaking from the Depths, Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (Scholar)
- Gandon, Sébastien, 2012, Russell’s Unknown
Logicism: A Study in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics,
London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137024657 (Scholar)
- Gaskill, Nicholas & A.J. Nocek (eds.), 2014, The Lure of Whitehead, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
- Gibbons, Gary & Clifford M. Will, 2008, “On the Multiple Deaths of Whitehead’s Theory of Gravity”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 39(1): 41–61. doi:10.1016/j.shpsb.2007.04.004 (Scholar)
- Gould, Stephen Jay, 1997, “Nonoverlapping Magisteria”, Natural History, 106(March): 16–22. [Gould 1997 available online] (Scholar)
- Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, 1991, “Russell and G.H. Hardy: A Study of Their Relationship”, Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives, 11(2): 165–79. doi:10.15173/russell.v11i2.1806 (Scholar)
- –––, 2000, The Search for Mathematical
Roots, 1870–1940, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2002, “Algebras, Projective Geometry,
Mathematical Logic, and Constructing the World: Intersections in the
Philosophy of Mathematics of A. N. Whitehead”, Historia
Mathematica, 29(4): 427–462.
doi:10.1006/hmat.2002.2356 (Scholar)
- Griffin, David Ray (ed.), 2005, Deep Religious Pluralism,
Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2007, Whitehead’s Radically
Different Postmodern Philosophy, Albany, NY: State University of
New York Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2020, James & Whitehead on Life
after Death, Albany, Anoka, MN: Process Century Press. (Scholar)
- Griffin, Nicholas & Bernard Linsky (eds.), 2013, Principia
Mathematica at 100, Hamilton, ON: Bertrand Russell Research
Center. (Scholar)
- Griffin, Nicholas, Bernard Linsky & Kenneth Blackwell (eds.), 2011, The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica, London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137344632 (Scholar)
- Hammerschmidt, William, 1947, Whitehead’s Philosophy of
Time, New York: King’s Crown Press. (Scholar)
- Hartshorne, Charles, 1972, Whitehead’s Philosophy:
Selected Essays, 1935–1970, Lincoln, NE: University of
Nebraska Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2010, “Whitehead in Historical
Context”, in Charles Hartshorne & W. Creighton Peden,
Whitehead’s View of Reality, UK: Cambrige Scholar
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- Hättich, Frank, 2004, Quantum Processes: A Whiteheadian Interpretation of Quantum Field Theory, Münster: Agenda Verlag. (Scholar)
- Henning, Brian & Adam Scarfe & Dorian Sagan (eds.), 2013, Beyond Mechanism, Lanham: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
- Henning, Brian & Joseph Petek (eds.), 2020, Whitehead at
Harvard, 1924–1925, Edingburgh: Edingburgh University Press. (Scholar)
- Herstein, Gary, 2006, Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of Cosmology, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. (Scholar)
- Hosinski, Thomas E., 1993, Stubborn Fact and Creative Advance:
An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead,
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc. (Scholar)
- Irvine, A. D. (ed.), 2009, Philosophy of Mathematics, Amsterdam: Elsevier/North Holland. (Scholar)
- Jeans, James, 1914, Report on Radiation and the
Quantum-Theory, London: “The Electrician” Printing
& Publishing Co. (Scholar)
- Johnson, A. H., 1952, Whitehead’s Theory of
Reality, Boston: Beacon Press. (Scholar)
- Jones, Judith, 1998, Intensity: An Essay in Whiteheadian Ontology, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. (Scholar)
- Kraus, Elizabeth, 1998, The Metaphysics of Experience: A
Companion to Whitehead’s Process and Reality, New York:
Fordham University Press. (Scholar)
- Lango, J. W., 1972, Whitehead’s Ontology, Albany,
NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
- Lawrence, N. M., 1956, Whitehead’s Philosophical
Development, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Leclerc, Ivor, 1958, Whitehead’s Metaphysics: An
Introductory Exposition, London: Allen and Unvin; New York:
Macmillan. (Scholar)
- Lent, Jeremy, 2021, The Web of Meaning—Integrating science and traditional wisdom to find our place in the universe, Canada: New Society Publishers. (Scholar)
- Lestienne, Rémy, 2020, Whitehead, Philosophe du Temps, Paris: CNRS éditions. (Scholar)
- Lowe, Victor, 1962, Understanding Whitehead, Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1985, Alfred North Whitehead: The Man
and His Work, Volume I: 1861–1910, Baltimore: The John
Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1990, Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work; Volume II: 1910–1947, J.B. Schneewind (ed.), Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
- Lucas, G. R., 1989, The Rehabilitation of Whitehead, Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1989. (Scholar)
- Malin, Shimon, 2001, Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and
the Nature of Reality, a Western Perspective, Oxford: Oxford
University Press. (Scholar)
- McDaniel, Jay, 2021, Process Thought? Seven Answers to Seven
Questions, Anoka, MN: Process Century Press. (Scholar)
- McHenry, Leemon, 1992, Whitehead and Bradley: A Comparative Analysis, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2015, The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
- Mays, Wolfe, 1959, The Philosophy of Whitehead, London: Allen and Unwin. (Scholar)
- –––, 1977, Whitehead’s Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. (Scholar)
- Mesle, Robert, 2008, Process-Relational Philosophy: An
Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead, Conshohocken, PA:
Templeton Foundation Press. (Scholar)
- Nobo, Jorge Luis, 1986, Whitehead’s Metaphysics of
Extension and Solidarity, Albany, NY: State University of New
York Press. (Scholar)
- Nordsieck, Viola, 2015, Formen der Wirklichkeit und der Erfahrung: Henri Berson, Ernst Cassirer und Alfred North Whitehead, Freiburg / München: Verlag Karl Alber. (Scholar)
- Palter, R. M., 1960, Whitehead’s Philosophy of
Science, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
- Plamondon, Ann L., 1979, Whitehead’s Organic Philosophy
of Science, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
- Ramsden Eames, Elizabeth, 1989, Bertrand Russell’s
Dialogue with His Contemporaries, Carbondale, IL: South Illinois
University Press. (Scholar)
- Riffert, Franz, 2012, “Analytic Philosophy, Whitehead, and
Theory Construction”, Process Studies, 41(2):
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- Ross, S. D., 1983, Perspective in Whitehead’s
Metaphysics, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
- Raud, Rein, 2021, Being in Flux: A Post-Anthropocentric Ontology of the Self, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. (Scholar)
- Rovelli, Carlo, 2017, Reality is not what it seems: The
journey to quantum gravity, UK: Penguin Books. (Scholar)
- Russell, Bertrand, 1897 [1956], Essay on the Foundations of Geometry, New York: Dover Publications. (Scholar)
- –––, 1903, The Principles of Mathematics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1948, “Whitehead and Principia Mathematica”, Mind, 57(226): 137–138. doi:10.1093/mind/lvii.226.137 (Scholar)
- –––, 1956, “Alfred North Whitehead”,
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- –––, 1959, My Philosophical Development, London: George Allan and Unwin. (Scholar)
- –––, 1967, The Autobiography of Bertrand
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- Russell, Robert John & Christoph Wassermann, 2004, “A
Generalized Whiteheadian Theory of Gravity: The Kerr Solution”,
Process Studies Supplement, Issue 6. (Scholar)
- Schilpp, Paul (ed.), 1941, The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, La Salle: Open Court. (Scholar)
- Segall, Matthew, 2013, Physics of the World-Soul: The
Relevance of Alfred North Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism to
Contemporary Scientific Cosmology, UK: Amazon. (Scholar)
- Shaviro, Steven, 2009, Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. (Scholar)
- Sherburne, Donald W., 1961, A Whiteheadian Aesthetics, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
- Shields, G. W. (ed.), 2003, Process and Analysis: Whitehead, Hartshorne, and the Analytic Tradition, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
- Smith, Raymond, 1953, Whitehead’s Concept of Logic,
Westminster: The Newman Press. (Scholar)
- Snow, C.P., 1959, The Two Cultures and the Scientific
Revolution, (Rede Lecture, 1959), Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. (Scholar)
- Stapp, Henry, 1993, Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics, Berlin: Springer Verlag. (Scholar)
- –––, 2007, Mindful Universe: Quantum
Mechanics and the Participating Observer, Berlin: Springer
Verlag. (Scholar)
- Stengers, Isabelle, 2011, Thinking with Whitehead, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2020, Réactiver le Sens Commun: Lecture de Whitehead en temps de débâcle, Paris: La Découverte. (Scholar)
- Synge, J.L., 1952, “Orbits and rays in the gravitational
field of a finite sphere according to the theory of A. N.
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- Temple, George, 1924, “Central Orbits in Relativistic
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- Von Ranke, Oliver, 1997, Whiteheads Relativitätstheorie, Regensburg: Roderer Verlag. (Scholar)
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