We are very pleased to announce that the bulk of what we are calling “Whitehead’s Lost Papers” is now publicly available at the online Whitehead Research Library (WRL). Donated by Whitehead’s grandson and heir in early 2019, the papers have now been scanned, cataloged, processed, and uploaded to the WRL. There was some discussion of… Read More Whitehead papers now available online
We had set ourselves two major tasks for this year: (1) finish cataloging and uploading the Whitehead papers to the Whitehead Research Library in order to be able to make them more widely available to the public, and (2) transcribe the original versions of Whitehead’s collected papers (i.e., those essays not subsequently published in monographs),… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, spring 2020
by George Allan Available from Lexington Books Amazon Whitehead’s Radically Temporalist Metaphysics: Recovering the Seriousness of Time George AllanPublication Date: March, 2020 Alfred North Whitehead is a major figure in the development of process philosophy because he proposes a metaphysical understanding of the nature of things that emphasizes their radical temporality. I take this to… Read More Whitehead’s Radically Temporalist Metaphysics
Available from At the end of his first year of what would turn out to be thirteen years teaching at Harvard, Alfred North Whitehead wrote a letter to his eldest son, North, in which he discussed how he felt about teaching his first course in philosophy: My first session of lectures is now over. It… Read More Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925
It has been a momentous and somewhat exhausting year for the Critical Edition of Whitehead. The “exhausting” part can largely be attributed to our work on the recently submitted second volume of Whitehead’s Harvard lectures, the completion of which consumed the bulk of our efforts for the year. Transcription of materials for the volume started… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead year-end update, winter 2019
We are extremely pleased to announce that editing is complete for the second volume of the Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead, and the manuscript has now been submitted to Edinburgh University Press. The full title will be: The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead: General Metaphysical Problems of Science,… Read More Second volume of Whitehead’s Harvard lectures submitted to publisher
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
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
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
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
