Beginning in September of 1924, Alfred North Whitehead presented a regular course of 85 lectures which concluded in May of 1925. These represent the first ever philosophy lectures he gave and capture ...
He had been ill with pneumonia. Whitehead, the son of English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, came to Harvard in 1931 to join a human relations study-group at the Business School. This group ...
It was during this time that mathematicians such as George Boole, Bertrand Russel, and Alfred North Whitehead began presenting theories formalizing logical reasoning. With the development of ...
"How do I know what I think 'till I see what I say," Alfred North Whitehead quoted someone as saying. One can imagine H. Stuart Hughes reading his new book--History as Art and Science--with the ...
As the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once observed, imagination is contagious. Whitehead went on to say that imagination cannot be weighed or measured; in graduate education it can only be ...
hard-nosed British logicians like Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell eventually came to embrace panpsychism. As ...
Currently, Lucas is also the Alfred North Whitehead Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Lucas is the author of nine books and more than 70 peer-reviewed ...
9月27日,“过程思想百年:怀念怀特海哈佛时期思想遗产及其影响”国际学术研讨会于哈佛大学举行。作为全球过程哲学界纪念怀特海首次在哈佛大学公开授课100周年的重要学术活动,本次会议由北京师范大学-香港浸会大学联合国际学院(中文简称:北师港浸大;英文简称 ...
从学科发展的角度看,Alex Net的成功无疑是具有里程碑意义的。它让被人们忽视已久的神经网络重新被人们认识,连接主义在被符号主义压制数十年之后,终于成为了人工智能发展的主流。对于辛顿个人,这一次成功也是一起非常重要的事件。现在,他终于不再会遭人白眼 ...
Greek Philosophy: No philosophers have been more influential than Plato and Aristotle. The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead famously wrote that “the European philosophical tradition…consists of a ...
Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a more adequate basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence ...