philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead

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Published 1951 by Tudor Publishing Co in New York, NY .
Written in

Subjects:

• Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947

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Edition Notes

Statement	edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp
Series	The Library of Living Philosophers
Contributions	Schilpp, Paul Arthur, 1897-
Classifications
LC Classifications	B"1674"W354"S354
The Physical Object
Pagination	xvi, 797 p
Number of Pages	797
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL21133397M
LC Control Number	51-6323

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Alfred North Whitehead. Alfred North Whitehead () studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and taught mathematics there for 16 years, afterward teaching math at University College, London, and the Imperial College of Science and Technology and serving as an instructor in philosophy at Harvard University. “Ron L. Cooper’s new book is a welcome addition to the unfortunately few discussions which bring together the seminal ideas of Martin Heidegger and Alfred North Whitehead.” Patrick Shade Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time can be broadly termed a transcendental inquiry into the structures that make human experience possible.

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