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THIS volume provides a guide to Whitehead's published writings, an explanatory commentary upon them, and criticisms of the objections to which they may be considered to lie open. It had been hoped that Whitehead would reply to the criticisms. Unfortunately a serious illness has prevented him from doing so. Instead he has contributed some delightfully characteristic “Autobiographical Notes”, and a letter (reproduced in facsimile) in which he has suggested that the outcome of this volume, had health and age allowed, would have consisted in his “devoting many years to rewriting [his] previous works”. Two of his philosophical papers, not previously published, are also given, on “Mathematics and the Good”, and on “Immortality”.
The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. (The Library of Living Philosophers, Vol. 3.) Pp. xix + 745. (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University, 1941.) 4 dollars.
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SMITH, N. The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Nature 149, 710–711 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149710a0
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