We’ll start this blog off with a fun photo comparison. The above featured photo of the Old Mill House in Grantchester was sent to us by Gordon Miller, emeritus professor of environmental studies at Seattle University, just a few days ago. The Whiteheads lived in this house for eight years, from 1899 to 1907. There… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, spring 2023
Available from Roland FaberPublication Date: February 2023 If one believes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, Alfred North Whitehead’s work is one of the most important events in the exploration of the universes of thought in recent times. Whitehead’s text confronts us with the feeling of existing in a world that cannot be defined by any… Read More The Mind of Whitehead
It’s the end of another year, and it’s been another productive one for the Critical Edition of Whitehead.… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead 2022 year-end update
This coming February, Joe Petek will celebrate ten years working on the Critical Edition of Whitehead. The aim of his new book—Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead—is to examine the significance of Critical Edition material for Whitehead scholarship by taking a closer look at some of the most interesting portions of it.… Read More Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead
If you have been following the progress of the Critical Edition of Whitehead, you may already know that we have been making great progress in editing the two volumes of Whitehead’s Essays and Articles—that is, all essays or articles that were either never collected into books, or that only appeared in the looser collections The… Read More An Appeal to Our Readers
We are now two weeks removed from a very successful conference on the second volume of Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures (HL2). Fourteen people presented papers, and there were a total of 118 registrants from 22 different countries. Moreover, video recordings of the conference proceedings are now available for free on the Whitehead Research Project YouTube channel,… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, fall 2022
The first thing we want to mention in this update is that the deadline for proposals for the Critical Edition of Whitehead Conference has just passed (on June 30th). Registrations for this free virtual conference, however, are still very much open. It will take place on Friday and Saturday, 16–17 September 2022, about two-and-a-half months… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, summer 2022
The WRP’s free virtual Second Critical Edition of Whitehead Conference exploring the significance of the recently published second volume of Whitehead’s Harvard lectures (HL2) is about three months away. It will take place on Friday and Saturday, September 16–17, 2022, 9:00am–1:00pm PST (GMT-8). You can register here. The deadline to respond to the call for papers is fast… Read More Reminder: Call for Papers for Second Critical Edition of Whitehead Conference
This is a more exciting update for us to write than usual, primarily because of some new archival discoveries. The most important of these is undoubtedly Whitehead’s paper “Sets of Operations in Relation to Groups of Finite Order.” An abstract of this paper had been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, spring 2022
by Joseph Petek, Assistant Editor, Critical Edition of Whitehead Shortly after posting last week’s blog about Whitehead’s influence on Martin Luther King Jr., we discovered another oblique connection between King and Whitehead that we had overlooked: the introductory course on Plato that King attended in 1952–53 was taught by none other than Raphael Demos, Whitehead’s… Read More Whitehead and Raphael Demos
