Alfred North Whitehead SCIENCE & THE MODERN WORLD

Nearly a century ago, Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), a respected mathematician/logician and theoretical physicist, published his first major work of philosophy, Science and the Modern World. The book is noteworthy in many respects, especially for presenting Whitehead’s account of the origins, magnificence and limitations of modern science and for expressing some of his basic metaphysical speculations, now known as process philosophy. Whitehead rejected the materialism, determinism and atheism often associated with science, and devised a worldview based on events, organisms, novelty and a non-omnipotent deity who develops, loves, and suffers.

Few thinkers changed the world's understanding of math and physics as much as Whitehead. We can read his Science and the Modern World together, two chapters each meeting:

• Chapter One "The Origins of Modern Science" (p. 1)
• Chapter Two "Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought" (p.25)

Text: digitized copy
https://ia800809.us.archive.org/20/items/b29978531/b29978531.pdf