Essays and Articles, 1886–1916 (EA1)

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The Essays and Articles of Alfred North Whitehead, 1886–1916

The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead

Edited by Brian G. Henning, Joseph Petek, and Robert J. Valenza
Publication Date: October 2025

This volume is the first authoritative, chronologically ordered, critically edited, and corrected collection of Alfred North Whitehead’s published and unpublished essays and articles from 1886 until 1916, and as such it is the scholarly standard for researching and referencing these essays.

It includes papers published in academic journals as well as previously unknown essays, ranging from philosophy of mathematics to physics through to education.

1886 A Celebrity at Home: The Clerk of the Weather
1886 Davy Jones
1888 On the Motion of Viscous Incompressible Fluids
1888 A Visitation
1888 Second Approximations to Viscous Fluid Motion
1891 The Fens as Seen from Skates
1896 On Ideals: With Reference to the Controversy Concerning the Admission of Women to Degrees in the University
1898 The Geodesic Geometry of Surfaces in Non-Euclidean Space
1899 Sets of Operations in Relation to Groups of Finite Order
1901 Memoir on the Algebra of Symbolic Logic (Part I)
1901 Memoir on the Algebra of Symbolic Logic (Part II)
1902 On Cardinal Numbers
1903 The Logic of Relations, Logical Substitution Groups, and Cardinal Numbers
1904 Theorems on Cardinal Numbers
1905 Note in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale
1906 On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World
1906 Liberty and the Enfranchisement of Women
1910 Non-Euclidean Geometry (with Bertrand Russell)
1910 Axioms of Geometry
1910 The Philosophy of Mathematics
1911 Mathematics
1911 The Place of Elementary Mathematics in a Liberal Education
1913 The Principles of Mathematics in Relation to Elementary Teaching
1913 Presidential Address to the London Branch of the Mathematical Association
1916 Space, Time, and Relativity
1916 The Aims of Education – A Plea for Reform
1916 La Théorie Relationniste de L’Espace (The Relational Theory of Space)
1916 The Organisation of Thought