La scienza e il mondo moderno

Mad geniuses occur more often in comic books than in real life, and it's always interesting to come across one. The clearest example I know is Fred Hoyle, who for a few years was considered one of the world's great scientists; during the 1950s, I understand that his name, at least in his native Brit Leggi tutto

Found this a bit frustrating in the end. Other reviewers have commented on the convoluted language, which I didn't find a problem early on in the text, but toward the end it becomes more and more of a problem. I had gained the impression that there are some very interesting ideas in Whitehead's phil Leggi tutto

This is one of the most important writings of the twentieth century. I first read it for a college course in the 1960’s (and for that I thank my teacher, Dr. Peter Caws), and I have returned to it many times since. Yes, it is difficult to comprehend this profound book in one reading, but it is well Leggi tutto

We are somewhere in the 1920's, Whitehead starts assuming that we did our homework; meaning that we know a great deal about Bacon, Harvey, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Pascal, Huygens, Boyle, Newton, Locke, Spinoza and Leibniz. My homework wasn't finished, but I kept going anyway. Then he goes about

The most exciting work of intellectual history I've read in a long time, but it took me years to be prepared for it. Read it in concert with Process and Reality: the two books illuminate and interfuse with each other.

I realize that the ideas in this book are extremely important. But Whitehead's obscure writing makes me want to stop reading philosophy forever. I was a philosophy major in college, but maybe I've changed over the years. When I now encounter page after page of obscure metaphysics, I think about the

The last chapter is exceptional. It was worth plowing through the first 12 chapters, just to glimpse Whiteheads vision in chapter 13. Aims of education, associations, the dangers of the Gospels of Force and Uniformity, potential fallacies of Adam Smith and the Professional man, physical wandering, s Leggi tutto

Utrolig konsist om vitenskapens (ide)historie, dens implikasjoner, og veien videre. Profetisk, men ikke apokalyptisk. En filosof som i en bedre verden ville vært regnet som en av de store tenkerne av det 20. århundret, men som av forskjellige grunner havnet i skyggen av sine samtidige. Veldig merkel Leggi tutto