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The Concept of Nature

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The Concept of Nature

Alfred North Whitehead

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What do we really mean when we speak of nature, of time, of space itself? Alfred North Whitehead rethinks the foundations, challenging the split between the world as we perceive it and the world as physics describes it. Rigorous, original philosophy from a towering mind. Wrestle with the deepest questions about the natural world and how we know it.

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17 chapters

  1. 1The Concept of NATURE The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College November 1919
  2. 2Alfred North Whitehead
  3. 3PREFACE
  4. 4CONTENTS
  5. 5THE CONCEPT OF NATURE
  6. 6CHAPTER I NATURE AND THOUGHT
  7. 7CHAPTER II THEORIES OF THE BIFURCATION OF NATURE
  8. 8CHAPTER III TIME
  9. 9CHAPTER IV THE METHOD OF EXTENSIVE ABSTRACTION
  10. 10CHAPTER V SPACE AND MOTION
  11. 11CHAPTER VI CONGRUENCE
  12. 12CHAPTER VII OBJECTS
  13. 13CHAPTER VIII SUMMARY
  14. 14CHAPTER IX THE ULTIMATE PHYSICAL CONCEPTS
  15. 15NOTE: ON THE GREEK CONCEPT OF A POINT
  16. 16NOTE: ON SIGNIFICANCE AND INFINITE EVENTS
  17. 17INDEX
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