Philosopher of Process
Alfred North Whitehead
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An English mathematician who wrote Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell, then at Harvard built a philosophy in which reality is made of events rather than things.
Key work: Process and Reality (1929)
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Reality is process, not stuff.
Each moment of experience gathers up the past.
Abstractions help until we mistake them for the world.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Process, Not Things
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