Alfred North Whitehead's Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect examines how symbols mediate human experience through symbolic reference—the dynamic interplay between presentational immediacy (direct sensory perception, e.g., seeing a flag’s colors) and causal efficacy (tacit awareness of historical or functional context, e.g., the flag’s national significance). He argues that symbols (e.g., words, rituals)...

Alfred North Whitehead’s Religion in the Making redefines religion as a dynamic interplay between individual solitariness of religion—personal communion with the consequent nature of God (God’s evolving responsiveness to the world)—and collective religious intuitions that shape rational religion, harmonizing emotional devotion with cosmic order (the metaphysical structure of reality). Whitehead ...

Alfred North Whitehead’s The Function of Reason redefines rationality as a dynamic interplay between speculative reason—the imaginative pursuit of cosmic ideals like harmony and beauty—and practical reason, which adapts these ideals to stubborn facts of existence. He critiques abstractions of the intellect—reducing reason to mere logical calculation—and posits reason as coordinative, synthesizing ...

Alfred North Whitehead’s An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge reimagines epistemology by grounding natural science in a relational ontology of events—temporal-spatial nexuses like "a flash of lightning"—as the primary reality, replacing Newtonian matter. He critiques the bifurcation of nature (separating perceived qualities from scientific quantities) and introduces the method ...

Alfred North Whitehead’s A Treatise on Universal Algebra pioneers the study of algebraic structures as unified systems, proposing a universal algebra—a framework to compare diverse algebras (e.g., Boolean, Grassmann’s exterior algebra) via symbolic logic systems governed by formal equivalence. He introduces algebraic schematism, where operations like addition or meet/join in lattices are redefined ...

Alfred North Whitehead’s Axioms of Projective Geometry rigorously reconstructs projective geometry through a minimal set of projective axioms—abstract principles like incidence relations (e.g., "two points determine a line") and cross ratio invariance—to derive properties independent of measurement. Central is the duality principle, where theorems interchange points and lines, and harmonic conjugates—...

Alfred North Whitehead’s The Principle of Relativity offers an alternative to Einstein’s theory by grounding relativity in a process ontology, where events—dynamic, interconnected spatiotemporal occurrences—replace static matter as reality’s basis. He critiques Einstein’s geometric approach, proposing instead a method of extensive abstraction to derive spacetime from the eventful continuum, a ...

Alfred North Whitehead’s Science and Philosophy synthesizes his process metaphysics with critiques of scientific reductionism, arguing that creative synthesis—the dynamic interweaving of actual entities through prehensive relations—undergirds both quantum phenomena and human experience. He dismantles the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, exposing how scientific abstractions (e.g., "particles") ...