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
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
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
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
I am very happy to announce that we have promoted our longtime Assistant Editor, Dr. Joe Petek, to Associate Editor of the Critical Edition of Whitehead. After working part-time with us for nine years while earning his doctorate, Joe will now work full-time for the Edition. It is only through the generous and unfailing support… Read More Joseph Petek promoted to Associate Editor of the Critical Edition of Whitehead
It’s the end of another year, and it’s been an exciting one for the Critical Edition of Whitehead. Our most important milestone this year was, of course, the appearance of the second volume of Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures (HL2), published by Edinburgh University Press in January. The product of many years of work and collated from… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead year-end update, winter 2021
We are excited to begin this quarterly update by announcing that Brian G. Henning and Joe Petek have been joined by Dr. Robert J. Valenza as a named editor for the first volume of Whitehead’s Collected Papers (CP1), which will include all of Whitehead’s published and unpublished articles written between 1886 and 1918. Dr. Valenza… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, fall 2021
This is our second update since the publication of the second volume of the Critical Edition, which covers Whitehead’s second and third year of Harvard lectures. It was published in late January in the UK and in late February in the US. As of this writing, the discount code “NEW30” still works for a 30%… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, summer 2021
