Alfred North Whitehead

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Standard Name: Whitehead, Alfred North

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Mary Agnes Hamilton
One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
74
MAH credits Lady Ottoline with holding the pacifist movement together; many meetings took...
Friends, Associates Alice Meynell
On her trip to the United States, AM met the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson , and the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and his wife Evelyn Wade .
Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape, 1947.
177, 187
Textual Production May Sinclair
May Sinclair published The New Idealism, in which she set out to study the works of contemporaries such as Bertrand Russell , Alfred North Whitehead , and others.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
304
Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson, 1913.
Travel Gertrude Stein
GS , Alice Toklas , Lytton Strachey , and Bertrand Russell were guests at Alfred North Whitehead 's home in Sarsen Land, Lockridge, when news of the German invasion of Belgium induced them to prolong their stay.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
84-5
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959.
212, 215

Timeline

1900-13
Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead published the three volumes of Principia Mathematica.
From early summer 1915
Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell , became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.
1931
The first British female academic philosopher, Susan Stebbing , published A Modern Introduction to Logic, the first textbook to popularise Bertrand Russell 's and Alfred North Whitehead 's difficult new formal logic alongside the old Aristotelian variety.
1932
The philosopher Dorothy Emmet began her career with a study of metaphysics and Alfred North Whitehead in her work Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism which is particularly useful for its elucidation of terminology.