Word: whitehead
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...reviewer picks up an undergraduate publication called "The Harvard Critic." But this is different. It is not the Faculty that is the target of these critics. No a single member of the Faculty is held up to public contumely and two of the professors even receive honorable mention. Professor Whitehead's latest volume of philosophy is the subject of high praise by one of the editors, and Professor Henderson's course in the history of science is moderately praised by Mr. John Des Passes, which is very high praise indeed...
Philosophy 3b is the more difficult of Professor Whitehead's two courses. If you can choose, or take both, Philosophy 3 (second half-year) is the first to be taken...
Philosophy 3b considers the cosmologies of Lucretius, Plato's Timaeus, and Newton. There is also emphasis on Descartes. In contrasting the Timaeus with Lucretius, Professor Whitehead sketches his own cosmology, which is based largely on the former. In the lectures the modern world is seen through the eyes of probably the most distinguished living philosopher, who also brings to his job such a logical mind as wrote "Principia Mathematics," a thorough knowledge of mathematical physics, and an unshakable conviction that his classes know more than he does. Long after the subject matter of the lectures is forgotten...
...strictly every-day usefulness. The second section, likewise, is a history of cosmologies, on the surface, but the purpose of this history is to demonstrate, first, the necessity of having a cosmology, and, second, that the shortcomings of past cosmologies can be remedied in the way in which Professor Whitehead's in the way in which Professor Whitehead's system remedies them...
Here is material which will be equally attractive to the seasoned Whitehead student and to the uninitiated. But the title "Adventures of Ideas" should not mislead any one into believing that it is a popularization of Professor Whitehead's ideas. It stands on exactly the same level with the two other members of the trilogy; yet it is not as abstract and difficult to understand as the others, because it deals largely with historical studies...