We recently received an email from our friend Rachel Hassall, the Archivist over at Sherborne School—Whitehead’s school from 1875–1880—who wanted to let us know about some of the records she’d discovered about a young Whitehead participating in the Debating Society. In his A History of Sherborne School (1979), A. B. Gourlay described the Debating Society:… Read More Teenage Whitehead and the Sherborne School Debating Society
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editor for the first volume of Whitehead’s Collected Papers (CP1), which will include all of Whitehead’s published and unpublished articles written between 1886 and 1918.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
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
In order to allow scholars more time to read the recently published second volume of Whitehead’s Harvard lectures (HL2) and respond to our call for papers, the Second Critical Edition of Whitehead Conference has been rescheduled for Fall 2022, and will now take place on Friday and Saturday, 16–17 September 2022, 9:00am–1:00pm PST (GMT-8). The conference will still be held… Read More Second Critical Edition of Whitehead Conference Rescheduled for Fall 2022
This is our first 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. For a limited time, the book is available through EUP’s website with a… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, spring 2021
We are pleased to announce that a two-day virtual conference on the significance of the second volume of Whitehead’s Harvard lectures will take place on Friday and Saturday, 17–18 September 2021, 8:00AM–noon PST (GMT-8). Registration for the conference is free. You can see full details for the conference here. If you would like to submit… Read More Announcing the Second Critical Edition of Whitehead conference + Call for papers
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
In our final Edition update of last year, we started by noting that we had just submitted the completed manuscript for the second volume of Whitehead’s Harvard lectures (HL2) to Edinburgh University Press. After a long copy-editing and proofing process, the proofs have been locked off and the book is ready for publication. We have… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead year-end update, winter 2020
