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Propositions in the Making

December 3, 2019

Available from Lexington Books Amazon Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, and Andrew M. Davis, EditorsPublication Date: December, 2019 How do we make ourselves a Whiteheadian proposition? This question exposes the multivalent connections between postmodern thought and Whitehead’s philosophy, with particular attention to his understanding of propositions. Propositions… Read More Propositions in the Making

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Whitehead and Felix Frankfurter

November 13, 2019

Whitehead had a considerable number of famous friends and colleagues, but few were more notable than Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), who would become a US Supreme Court Justice in 1939. It is unclear exactly when and how the two men first met. Frankfurter had been given a chair at Harvard Law School in 1921, fresh off… Read More Whitehead and Felix Frankfurter

— Critical Edition Update —

Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, fall 2019

October 1, 2019

We are extremely pleased to announce that, aside from some minor formatting tasks, the editing of all materials for the second volume of Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures is now complete. This includes: 29 Radcliffe lectures for fall 1925, 78 Harvard lectures for 1925–26, 63 Harvard lectures for 1926–27, 10 seminar sessions for 1926–27, plus four guest… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, fall 2019

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Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, summer 2019

July 1, 2019

We continue to make good progress on the second volume of Harvard lectures. Editing is now complete for the Fall 1925, Spring 1926, and Fall 1926 portions of Whitehead’s Philosophy 3b lectures. We are now in the midst of editing the lectures for Spring 1927, which will round out the Philosophy 3b material for the… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, summer 2019

— New Books —

Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the 21st Century: Dislocations

May 12, 2019

by Jeremy Fackenthal Available from Lexington Books Amazon Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the 21st Century: Dislocations, the latest book in Contemporary Whitehead Studies, is now available from Lexington Books. Many thanks to the fine contributors for sharing their essays with us and for their work in advancing Whitehead scholarship in the twenty-first century. This… Read More Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the 21st Century: Dislocations

— Critical Edition Update —

Critical Edition quarterly update

March 28, 2019

It’s been a couple of months since we announced the opening of the Whitehead Research Library, and about four months since the last general Critical Edition update. We are approaching the end of the scanning process for the newly discovered Whitehead papers. In order to scan them more quickly, we have been doing minimal cataloging,… Read More Critical Edition quarterly update

— News —

Announcing the opening of the Whitehead Research Library (WRL)

February 2, 2019

In our year-end update from about two months ago, I wrote that we were working to make more of our Whitehead letters, essays, photos, and student lecture notes publicly available. Today I am happy to announce that we are officially launching the digital Whitehead Research Library (WRL), which will make select archival Whitehead materials freely… Read More Announcing the opening of the Whitehead Research Library (WRL)

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On the recently discovered Whitehead papers

January 14, 2019

by Brian G. Henning For decades it has been well known that Alfred North Whitehead’s papers and correspondence were burned or destroyed. What unknown materials were forever lost to the flame has been a source of speculation for more than seventy years. Were there unpublished manuscripts? Were there early drafts of published works? With whom… Read More On the recently discovered Whitehead papers

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Critical Edition of Whitehead: 2018 Year-End Update

December 4, 2018

Above: Evelyn Whitehead in 1890, age 24. The Whiteheads were married on December 16, 1890. Their first son, Thomas North, was born on December 31, 1891. Photo courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Library (MS 282, Department of Special Collections, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University). It has been an eventful year for WRP. Rather than… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead: 2018 Year-End Update

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Whitehead and James Haughton Woods

October 8, 2018

George R. Lucas, Jr., our General Editor for the Critical Edition of Whitehead, recently completed an east coast crawl that included visits to several archives that held Whitehead-related papers. While combing through the Victor Lowe and Whitehead papers held at Johns Hopkins, he not only recovered numerous letters, photographs, and student notes, but also one… Read More Whitehead and James Haughton Woods

Whitehead papers now available online

Some notes on Essays in Science and Philosophy

The Whitehead book that never was

Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, spring 2020

Whitehead’s Radically Temporalist Metaphysics

Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925

Whitehead’s Daughter, Jessie

Revisiting Lucien Price’s Dialogues

Propositions in the Making

Whitehead and Felix Frankfurter

Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, fall 2019

Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, summer 2019

Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the 21st Century: Dislocations

Critical Edition quarterly update

Announcing the opening of the Whitehead Research Library (WRL)

On the recently discovered Whitehead papers

Critical Edition of Whitehead: 2018 Year-End Update

Whitehead and James Haughton Woods