Philosophical Essays for Alfred North Whitehead, February Fifteenth Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Six (Classic Reprint)

The following essays were written for Alfred North Whitehead by a group of his students. The membership of this, as of any such group, is arbitrary. It might have been either larger or smaller. The individuals composing the group, however, represent many different tendencies in contemporary American philosophy, and the volume indicates some, at least, of the many directions in which the thought of Whitehead is being felt. The arrangement of the essays calls for a word. Three are distinctly more historical in approach than the others. They have been placed first, and are followed by the remaining ones, arranged according to their subjects, which fall roughly under the headings of logic and methodology, metaphysics and ethics. The essays express the interest of their writers. Each deals with one special topic, and at the same time suggests the general philosophical viewpoint of its author. Consequently, the content of the volume is extremely varied. Nevertheless, certain leading ideas appear in many of the papers, though in very different forms and contexts, and thus relate the papers both to each other and to the philosophy which has influenced them all. Whether there is anything of the spirit of that philosophy in them and the hope that there is constitutes the sole excuse for the appearance of this volume the reader must judge.
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