An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge - Softcover

Whitehead, A. N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406702935 ISBN 13: 9781406702934

Publisher: Goodale Press, 2007

Synopsis

A. N. Whitehead explores the relationship between philosophy and science in this classic volume of scientific observation.

First published in 1919, this volume is a study of metaphysics. Alfred North Whitehead was a philosopher and mathematician and this work is followed by two sequels, The Concept of Nature (1920) and The Principle of Relativity (1922).

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Book Description

Originally published in 1919, and first republished in 1925 as this Second Edition, this text ranks among Whitehead's most important works; forming a perspective on scientific observation that incorporated a complex view of experience, rather than prioritising the position of 'pure' sense data.

About the Author

An English mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead provided the foundation for the shool of thought known as process philosophy. With an academic career that spanned from Cambridge to Harvard, Whitehead wrote extensively on mathematics, metaphysis, and philosophy. He died in Massachusetts in 1947.

Edition details

• Publisher: Goodale Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1406702935
• ISBN 13: 9781406702934
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212