Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead, (15 Şubat 1861 – 30 Aralık 1947) İngiliz bir matematikçi ve filozoftur. Mantıksal pozitivizm olarak bilinen felsefi akımın ve Viyana Çevresi olarak adlandırılan filozoflar grubunun içinde yer alan önemli isimlerden birdir. Ramsgate, Kent, Birleşik Krallık'ta doğdu, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ABD'de öldü. 1880–1910 arasında matematik üzerinde çalıştı. 1910–24 arasında fizik, bilim felsefesi, eğitim pratik ve teoriği üzerine çalışmalarda bulundu. 1924–47 arasında daha önce hiç düşünmediği bir dalda Harvard Üniversitesi'nde felsefe profesörü oldu, metafizik hakkında yazdı. Bertrand Russell'la beraber Principia Mathematica kitabını yazdı. Tanrı'yı İbrahimi dinlerden daha farklı bir şekilde anladığı iddia edilse de, eserlerinde semavi dinlerden esintiler mevcuttur.[43]

Alfred North Whitehead
Doğumu	15 Şubat 1861 Ramsgate, Kent, İngiltere
Ölümü	30 Aralık 1947 (86 yaşında) Cambridge, Massachusetts, ABD
Çağı	20. yüzyıl felsefesi
Bölgesi	Batı felsefesi
Okulu	Süreç felsefesi, Süreç teolojisi
İlgi alanları	Metafizik, Matematik
Önemli fikirleri	Süreç felsefesi, Süreç teolojisi
Etkilendikleri Aristoteles,[1] Henri Bergson,[2] Francis Herbert Bradley[3] John Dewey,[2] David Hume,[1] William James,[2] Immanuel Kant,[4] Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,[5] Locke,[4] Isaac Newton,[5] Platon,[1] George Santayana[5]
Etkiledikleri Wilfred Eade Agar,[6] Ian Barbour,[7] Charles Birch,[7] David Bohm,[6] Joseph A. Bracken,[8] C. D. Broad,[9] Milič Čapek,[6] Philip Clayton,[10] John Cobb,[11] Monica Coleman,[10] Gilles Deleuze,[12] Philippe Devaux,[9] Dorothy Emmet,[13] Bruce G. Epperly,[14] Roland Faber,[10] Franklin I. Gamwell,[15] David Ray Griffin,[16] Charles Hartshorne,[17] Nancy R. Howell,[18] Hans Jonas,[9] Mordecai Kaplan,[19] William E. Kaufman,[20] Catherine Keller,[21] Jean Ladrière,[9] Susanne Langer,[22] Ervin László,[23] Bruno Latour,[24] Bernard Loomer,[25] Charles Malik,[26] Jay McDaniel,[27] Maurice Merleau-Ponty,[9] C. Robert Mesle,[28] H. Richard Niebuhr,[29] Reinhold Niebuhr,[29] F. S. C. Northrop,[22] Schubert M. Ogden,[30] Thomas Jay Oord,[31] Wolfhart Pannenberg,[9] Talcott Parsons,[32] Luis G. Pedraja,[33] Norman Pittenger,[29] Ilya Prigogine,[9] W. V. O. Quine,[34] Nicholas Rescher,[35] Bertrand Russell,[5] B. F. Skinner,[36] Wolfgang Smith,[37] Isabelle Stengers,[38] Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki,[10] John Lighton Synge,[6] William Irwin Thompson,[39] Jules Vuillemin,[9] Conrad Hal Waddington,[6] Jean Wahl,[9] Michel Weber,[40] Paul Weiss,[22] Henry Nelson Wieman,[41] Daniel Day Williams,[25] Sewall Wright[42]

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Kaynakça

1. Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), 39.
2. Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), xii.
3. Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), xiii.
4. Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), xi.
5. Michel Weber and Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 17.
6. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 174.
7. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 173.
8. Joseph A. Bracken, "Whitehead and the Critique of Logocentrism", in Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms, ed. Catherine Keller and Anne Daniell (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), 91-110.
9. Michel Weber and Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 26.
10. "CPS Co-Directors", Center for Process Studies, accessed December 12, 2013, http://www.ctr4process.org/about/CoDirectors/.
11. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 179.
12. Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, trans. Tom Conley (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 76.
13. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 170.
14. Bruce G. Epperly, Process Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed (New York: T&T Clark, 2011), 12.
15. Franklin I. Gamwell, "Speaking of God after Aquinas", Journal of Religion 81 (2001): 208-209.
16. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 183.
17. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 167.
18. Nancy R. Howell, A Feminist Cosmology: Ecology, Solidarity, and Metaphysics (Amherst: Humanity Books, 2000), vii.
19. William E. Kaufman, "Mordecai M. Kaplan and Process Theology: Metaphysical and Pragmatic Perspectives", Process Studies 20 (1991). Available online at http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2816.
20. William E. Kaufman, The Case for God (Atlanta: Chalice Press, 1991).
21. Catherine Keller, "Introduction: The Process of Difference, the Difference of Process", in Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms, ed. Catherine Keller and Anne Daniell (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), 1-30.
22. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 164-165.
23. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 175.
24. Bruno Latour, preface to Thinking with Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts, by Isabelle Stengers, trans. Michael Chase (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011), x.
25. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 178.
26. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 165.
27. "Dr. Jay McDaniel", Hendrix College, accessed December 12, 2013, http://www.hendrix.edu/religion/religion.aspx?id=2945.
28. C. Robert Mesle, Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead (West Conshohocken: Templeton Foundation Press, 2009), 9.
29. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 180.
30. Schubert M. Ogden, The Reality of God and Other Essays (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1992), 36.
31. Thomas Jay Oord, "Reflection on Whitehead's Philosophical Theology", International Studies in Philosophy 35 (2003): 188-189.
32. Thomas J. Fararo, "On the Foundations of the Theory of Action in Whitehead and Parsons", in Explorations in General Theory in Social Science, ed. Jan J. Loubser et al. (New York: The Free Press, 1976), chapter 5.
33. Luis G. Pedraja, "Whitehead, Deconstruction, and Postmodernism", in Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms, ed. Catherine Keller and Anne Daniell (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), 73-90.
34. Michel Weber and Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 25.
35. Michel Weber and Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 31.
36. "Alfred North Whitehead Biography", European Graduate School, accessed December 12, 2013, http://www.egs.edu/library/alfred-north-whitehead/biography/.
37. Wolfgang Smith, Cosmos and Transcendence: Breaking Through the Barrier of Scientistic Belief (Peru, Illinois: Sherwood Sugden and Company, 1984), 3.
38. Isabelle Stengers, Thinking with Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts, trans. Michael Chase (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011), 6.
39. William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996), 82.
40. Michel Weber and Will Desmond, eds., Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1 (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008), 13.
41. John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 177.
42. Charles Birch, "Why Aren't We Zombies? Neo-Darwinism and Process Thought", in Back to Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution, ed. John B. Cobb, Jr., (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008), 252.
43. "AN AESTHETIC REPRESENTATION OF ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD'S PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION". 16 Haziran 2013 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi. Erişim tarihi: 11 Nisan 2013.