Science and the Modern World (Nauka i świat nowoczesny)

Wprowadzenie

Alfred North Whitehead gave the Lowell Lectures in Boston in 1925, a year after moving from London to a chair of philosophy at Harvard; the book adds further chapters to them. He traces modern science from the 17th century – “the century of genius” – through the 18th and 19th centuries to relativity and quantum theory, and shows how its success rested on a scheme of bits of matter “simply located” in space and time. That scheme, he argues, is an abstraction, useful but not concrete reality. A chapter on “the Romantic reaction” reads Wordsworth and Shelley as witnesses to the concrete experience of nature that the scientific scheme leaves out. The book prepared the process philosophy of Process and Reality (1929).

Więcej dzieł: Alfred North Whitehead

• 1910Principia mathematica
• 1929Proces i rzeczywistość