This article originally appeared on the Edinburgh University Press blog When the first two volumes of Alfred North Whitehead’s Harvard lectures were published in 2017 and 2021, they changed the landscape of Whitehead scholarship by adding what was effectively new primary source material to the established Whitehead philosophical canon, a collection of texts that largely had not changed… Read More The Whitehead canon, version 2.0
As we enter the final quarter of 2025, we’re happy that a number of books that have been in the works for quite a while are finally published or very soon to be published. First, an anthology of essays exploring the significance of the second volume of Whitehead’s Harvard lectures (HL2) was published in late… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, fall 2025
2025 is now half-finished, and the Critical Edition of Whitehead continues to whir along. The two volumes of the Essays and Articles of Alfred North Whitehead (EA1 and EA2) are now very, very close to completion. We have finished reviewing the proofs, and are presently busy creating back-of-book records of textual variations while the books… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, summer 2025
We’re three months into 2025, and working furiously on many different fronts, with some exciting publications getting nearer. First, the two volumes of the Essays and Articles of Alfred North Whitehead (EA1 and EA2) have now been copy-edited, and are currently being typeset. When the typesetting is completed, we will then check the proofs, create… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, spring 2025
We are rapidly approaching the end of 2024, and it’s been another busy year for the Critical Edition of Whitehead. Much of the year was taken up with finishing the two volumes of Whitehead’s Essays and Articles (EA1 and EA2). The original plan was to submit EA2 in Q1 and EA1 in Q3, but after… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead 2024 year-end update
After years of toil, we’ve finally completed the two volumes of Whitehead Essays and Articles (EA1 and EA2) and submitted them to Edinburgh University Press.… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, fall 2024
The year is halfway done, and it’s time for another update on the Critical Edition. We have more progress and some exciting discoveries to report. Let’s start with the discoveries. In reviewing the Victor Lowe papers that we had scanned from Johns Hopkins —about 15,000 pages of material—we discovered a brand new, or at least… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, summer 2024
The first three months of 2024 have been focused on a couple of things: finishing up the second volume of Whitehead’s Essays and Articles (EA2) and kicking off the work that’s been scoped for the NEH grant. We’ll start by discussing EA2, since there’s been an interesting development. After essentially completing work on EA2, we… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, spring 2024
This blog provides information on the people who were present at Whitehead’s 70th birthday symposium in 1931.… Read More Who’s who at Whitehead’s 70th Birthday Party?
Available from Astrophilosophy, Exotheology, and Cosmic Religion Andrew Davis and Roland Faber (eds.)Publication Date: February, 2024 Astrophilosopy, Exotheology, and Cosmic Religion: Extraterrestrial Life in a Process Universe applies Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy and the associated process philosophies of Henri Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, and others to the interdisciplinary layers of astrobiology, extraterrestrial life, and the… Read More Astrophilosophy, Exotheology, and Cosmic Religion
