We’re entering the final three months of 2026, and so it’s time for another quick CEW update. We may as well start with the bad news, which we already shared in mid-August: our new NEH proposal, which would have more-or-less fully funded the project for the next three years, was not funded. This seems to… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, fall 2026
We are happy to announce that we will be hosting a free virtual conference exploring the significance of the recently published Essays and Articles volumes from June 21st to 23rd, 2027. You can find the main conference page here, including a link for registration. If you are interested in presenting at the conference, we welcome… Read More Announcing the Third Critical Edition of Whitehead Conference
We wanted to update the community with the unfortunate news that our most recent application for an NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations grant has not been funded. In reading the reviews of the four panelists who evaluated our proposal, we were not even as close this time as we were in some previous attempts. Each… Read More Bad news – No new NEH grant
We wanted to take a quick moment to remind everyone of a resource that can tend to get lost amidst news of upcoming Critical Edition volumes: the Whitehead Encyclopedia. Launched three years ago in July 2023, the Whitehead Encyclopedia aims to explicate the ways in which Alfred North Whitehead has influenced contemporary work in philosophy, theology, and… Read More The Whitehead Encyclopedia
We’re now halfway through 2026 and work continues to hum along on our scoped NEH grant work. We’ve now managed to locate a pair of excellent editorial assistants to finish up transcription of Whitehead’s correspondence before the end of the year. We’re extremely pleased with their work so far and are confident that they will… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, summer 2026
It’s the end of the first quarter of 2026, the final year of our current three-year NEH grant. We remain on track to finish all our scoped work by the end of the year, although one element has been delayed. First, Whitehead’s correspondence continues to be transcribed for the eventual publication of two correspondence volumes.… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, spring 2026
2025 has been a significant year for the Whitehead Research Project and the Critical Edition of Whitehead, with two volumes of the CEW published and more in the pipeline for the next few years.… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead 2025 year-end update
We wanted everyone to know that Edinburgh University Press is having their biggest sale of the year this weekend with 50% off on everything, so now is an excellent time to grab volumes of the Critical Edition. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-edinburgh-critical-edition-of-the-complete-works-of-alfred-north-whitehead Also, as it happens, the paperback edition of the second volume of Harvard Lectures is being published… Read More Edinburgh University Press sale
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
