Philosophy

Alfred North Whitehead’s Natural Theology

Another brilliant philosopher suppressed by academia

Whitehead started off his academic life as a professor of mathematics. With Bertrand Russell, he wrote Principia Mathematica, perhaps the most dense book ever written. But like Ludwig Wittgenstein, Whitehead abandoned Russell’s analytical, reductionist view of the world and became a philosophy professor. In a series of books beginning with The Concept of Nature (1920), Whitehead developed the method of process philosophy. Central…