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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.
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science · English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947) · philosopher · mathematician · physicist · theologian · writer · logician · university teacher · also Alfred North Whitehead, Whitehead
Born 15 February 1861 · Died 30 December 1947 · Q183372
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Because Whitehead's holistic metaphysics of value lends itself so readily to an ecological point of view, many see his work as a promising alternative to the traditional mechanistic worldview, providing a detailed metaphysical picture of a world constituted by a web of interdependent relations.
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2026· 5 entries
“Because Whitehead's holistic metaphysics of value lends itself so readily to an ecological point of view, many see his work as a promising alternative to the traditional mechanistic worldview, providing a detailed metaphysical picture of a world constituted by a web of interdependent relations.”
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“... there is good reason for claiming that Whitehead shared the social and political ideals of the new liberals.”
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“the value of the objective world which is a community derivative from the interrelations of its component individuals.”
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“This further question lands us in the ocean of metaphysic, onto which my profound ignorance of that science forbids me to enter.”
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2023· 1 entry
Published “Segment Anything” in 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) — cited 10,834 times.
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2017· 1 entry
“Educating for an Ecological Civilization: Interdisciplinary, Experiential, and Relational Learning”
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2016· 1 entry
Published “The<i>Gaia</i>mission” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 6,433 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Published “The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment” in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society — cited 22,067 times.
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2002· 1 entry
“Beyond the Modern University: Toward a Constructive Postmodern University,”
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence” in Nature — cited 6,511 times.
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1958· 1 entry
And founded the Center for Process Studies with David Ray Griffin in 1973
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1947· 4 entries
Died 1947-12-30.
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“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
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“Error is the price we pay for progress.”
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“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit (1945).
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1937· 1 entry
And remained in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until his death on 30 December 1947
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1930· 1 entry
Won Butler Medal (1930).
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1929· 2 entries
As a book named Process and Reality, which has been compared to Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
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Wieman famously wrote in his 1930 review:
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1927· 1 entry
Invited one of America's only Whitehead experts, Henry Nelson Wieman, to Chicago to give a lecture explaining Whitehead's thoughts
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1925· 3 entries
Won Sylvester Medal (1925).
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Wrote Science and the Modern World, which was immediately hailed as an alternative to the Cartesian dualism then prevalent in popular science
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And is widely credited with developing Whitehead's process philosophy into a full-blown process theology
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1924· 2 entries
Was invited to join the faculty at Harvard University as a professor of philosophy at 63 years of age
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Henry Osborn Taylor invited the 63-year-old Whitehead to join the faculty at Harvard University as a professor of philosophy
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1922· 1 entry
Awarded James Scott Prize Lectureship (1922).
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1920· 2 entries
Served as president of the Aristotelian Society from 1922 to 1923, and Henri Bergson was quoted as saying that Whitehead was "the best philosopher writing in English
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Served as president of the Aristotelian Society from 1922 to 1923
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1919· 1 entry
And chairman of the Senate's Academic (leadership) Council in 1920, a post which he held until he departed for America in 1924
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1918· 1 entry
Whitehead's academic responsibilities began to seriously expand as he accepted a number of high administrative positions within the University of London system (of which Imperial College London was a member at the time)
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1916· 1 entry
When Whitehead was president of the London Branch of the Mathematical Association
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1914· 1 entry
Whitehead accepted a position as professor of applied mathematics at the newly chartered Imperial College London, where his old friend Andrew Forsyth had recently been appointed chief professor of mathematics
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1910· 1 entry
Whitehead resigned his senior lectureship in mathematics at Trinity and moved to London without first obtaining another job
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1903· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1903).
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1901· 1 entry
"they found Evelyn Whitehead in the middle of what appeared to be a dangerous and acutely painful angina attack
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1890· 2 entries
Are recorded in the English Census of 1891 as living with Alfred's mother and father
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Whitehead married Evelyn Wade, an Irishwoman raised in France; they had a daughter, Jessie, and two sons, Thomas and Eric
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1884· 4 entries
Whitehead would teach and write on mathematics and physics at the college until 1910, spending the 1890s writing his Treatise on Universal Algebra (1898), and the 1900s collaborating with his former pupil, Bertrand Russe
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Studied at University of Cambridge, Doctor (1884).
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Studied at Trinity College (1880–1884).
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Writing his dissertation on James Clerk Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, and graduated as fourth wrangler
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1880· 2 entries
Began attending Trinity College, Cambridge, and studied mathematics
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Studied at Sherborne School (1875–1880).
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1861· 1 entry
Born 1861-02-15.
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