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
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
Available from Edinburgh University Press Amazon We’re happy to announce that our anthology, Whitehead at Harvard, 1924-1925, is now available in paperback for $24.95/£19.99. This collection of new research by leading scholars explores the significance of the first volume of the Critical Edition of Whitehead. For a limited time, use the code PAPER30 on EUP’s store… Read More Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925 is out in paperback + EUP FLASH SALE
Available from Lexington Books Amazon Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School: Preempting the Problem of Intentionality Lisa Landoe HedrickPublication Date: May, 2021 Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School: Preempting the Problem of Intentionality proposes a revisionary history of the relationship between Alfred North Whitehead and analytic philosophy, as well as a constructive proposal for how thinking with Whitehead… Read More Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School
If Whitehead had taken care to preserve the drafts of his books and essays, his lecture notes, and his correspondence—in short, left behind the sort of Nachlass that important scholars often do—then a critical edition of his writings would no doubt have taken place long before now. As it stands, the idea of a Critical… Read More The missing drafts of Whitehead’s books
Available from Lexington Books Amazon On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary: Going the Bloody Hard Way Randy RamalPublication Date: February, 2021 Randy Ramal argues that philosophy’s main responsibility lies in providing intelligibility to the ordinary language of everyday life while dispelling unwarranted skepticism. Philosophers need to go the hard way to fulfill this responsibility because… Read More On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary
Available from Lexington Books Amazon Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context Timothy E. EastmanPublication Date: December, 2020 In Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context, Timothy E. Eastman proposes a new creative synthesis, the Logoi framework—which is radically inclusive and incorporates both actuality and potentiality—to show how the fundamental notions of process, logic, and relations,… Read More Untying the Gordian Knot
Available from Lexington Books Amazon Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy Andrew M. DavisPublication Date: October, 2020 Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy is an investigation into the nature of ultimacy and explanation, particularly as it relates to the status of, and relationship among Mind, Value, and the… Read More Mind, Value, and Cosmos
by George Allan Available from Lexington Books Amazon Whitehead’s Radically Temporalist Metaphysics: Recovering the Seriousness of Time George AllanPublication Date: March, 2020 Alfred North Whitehead is a major figure in the development of process philosophy because he proposes a metaphysical understanding of the nature of things that emphasizes their radical temporality. I take this to… Read More Whitehead’s Radically Temporalist Metaphysics
Available from Edinburgh University Press Amazon At the end of his first year of what would turn out to be thirteen years teaching at Harvard, Alfred North Whitehead wrote a letter to his eldest son, North, in which he discussed how he felt about teaching his first course in philosophy: My first session of lectures… Read More Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925
