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This volume is the first authoritative, chronologically ordered, critically edited, and corrected collection of Alfred North Whitehead's published and unpublished essays and articles from 1886 until 1916, making it the scholarly standard for researching and referencing these essays. It includes papers published in academic journals as well as previously unknown essays, ranging from mathematics to physics through to education.

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Author:   Brian G. Henning (Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University) ,  Joseph Petek (Associate Editor) ,  Robert J. Valenza (Dengler-Dykema Professor of Mathematics and the Humanities, Claremont McKenna College, USA.)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
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9781399531207

ISBN 10:   1399531204
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   31 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations General introduction Chronology for Alfred North Whitehead Published works of Alfred North Whitehead Introduction to The Essays and Articles of Alfred North Whitehead, 1886–1916 1886. A Celebrity at Home: The Clerk of the Weather 1886. Davy Jones 1888. On the Motion of Viscous Incompressible Fluids 1888. A Visitation 1888. Second Approximations to Viscous Fluid Motion 1891. The Fens as Seen from Skates 1896. On Ideals: With Reference to the Controversy Concerning the Admission of Women to Degrees in the University 1898. The Geodesic Geometry of Surfaces in Non-Euclidean Space 1899. Sets of Operations in Relation to Groups of Finite Order 1901. Memoir on the Algebra of Symbolic Logic (Part I) 1901. Memoir on the Algebra of Symbolic Logic (Part II) 1902. On Cardinal Numbers 1903. The Logic of Relations, Logical Substitution Groups, and Cardinal Numbers 1904. Theorems on Cardinal Numbers 1905. Note in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 1906. On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World 1906. Liberty and the Enfranchisement of Women 1910. Non-Euclidean Geometry 1910. Axioms of Geometry 1910. The Philosophy of Mathematics 1911. Mathematics 1911. The Place of Elementary Mathematics in a Liberal Education 1913. The Principles of Mathematics in Relation to Elementary Teaching 1913. Presidential Address to the London Branch of the Mathematical Association 1916. Space, Time, and Relativity 1916. The Aims of Education—A Plea for Reform 1916. La Théorie Relationniste de L’Espace (The Relational Theory of Space) 1916. The Organisation of Thought Textual Notes Bibliography Index

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Brian G. Henning is Professor of Philosophy and of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Gonzaga University and Executive Director of the Whitehead Research Project. Dr. Henning holds a M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University. He is author or editor of fifteen books and more than thirty-five articles and chapters. His 2005 book, The Ethics of Creativity (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the 2007 Findlay Book Prize from the Metaphysical Society of America for the best work of metaphysics published between 2001 and 2006. He is the Founder and General Editor of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead. Joseph Petek is the Director of Research and Publication of the Whitehead Research Project of Gonzaga University and Executive Editor of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead. He has co-edited three books on Whitehead: Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism (2017), Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925 (2020), and The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925–1927: General Metaphysical Problems of Science (2021). His latest book is Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead (2022), which examines the significance of Whitehead's Harvard lectures and other previously unknown archival materials. Robert J. Valenza is Dengler-Dykema Professor of Mathematics and the Humanities at Claremont McKenna College, USA.

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