The Concept of Nature
Tarner Lectures

This book is an exploration of the fundamental metaphysical problems of substance, space and time.

Alfred North Whitehead (Author)

9781107534315, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 October 2015

141 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm, 0.22 kg

When The Concept of Nature by Alfred North Whitehead was first published in 1920 it was declared to be one of the most important works on the relation between philosophy and science for many years, and several generations later it continues to deserve careful attention. Whitehead explores the fundamental problems of substance, space and time, and offers a criticism of Einstein's method of interpreting results while developing his own well-known theory of the four-dimensional 'space-time manifold'. With a specially commissioned new preface written by Michael Hampe, this book is presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century for a new generation of readers.

Preface to this edition Michael Hampe
Preface
1. Nature and thought
2. Theories of the bifurcation of nature
3. Time
4. The method of extensive abstraction
5. Space and motion
6. Congruence
7. Objects
8. Summary
9. The ultimate physical concepts
Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of science [PDA], Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge [HPK]