Essays and Articles of Alfred North Whitehead, 1886-1916

Brian G. Henning is Professor of Philosophy and of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Gonzaga University and Executive Director of the Whitehead Research Project. Dr. Henning holds a M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University. He is author or editor of fifteen books and more than thirty-five articles and chapters. His 2005 book, The Ethics of Creativity (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the 2007 Findlay Book Prize from the Metaphysical Society of America for the best work of metaphysics published between 2001 and 2006. He is the Founder and General Editor of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead. Joseph Petek is the Director of Research and Publication of the Whitehead Research Project of Gonzaga University and Executive Editor of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead. He has co-edited three books on Whitehead: Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism (2017), Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925 (2020), and The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925–1927: General Metaphysical Problems of Science (2021). His latest book is Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead (2022), which examines the significance of Whitehead's Harvard lectures and other previously unknown archival materials. Robert J. Valenza is Dengler-Dykema Professor of Mathematics and the Humanities at Claremont McKenna College, USA.

• AbbreviationsGeneral introductionChronology for Alfred North WhiteheadPublished works of Alfred North WhiteheadIntroduction to The Essays and Articles of Alfred North Whitehead, 1886–19161886. A Celebrity at Home: The Clerk of the Weather1886. Davy Jones1888. On the Motion of Viscous Incompressible Fluids1888. A Visitation1888. Second Approximations to Viscous Fluid Motion1891. The Fens as Seen from Skates1896. On Ideals: With Reference to the Controversy Concerning the Admission of Women to Degrees in the University1898. The Geodesic Geometry of Surfaces in Non-Euclidean Space1899. Sets of Operations in Relation to Groups of Finite Order1901. Memoir on the Algebra of Symbolic Logic (Part I)1901. Memoir on the Algebra of Symbolic Logic (Part II)1902. On Cardinal Numbers1903. The Logic of Relations, Logical Substitution Groups, and Cardinal Numbers1904. Theorems on Cardinal Numbers1905. Note in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale1906. On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World1906. Liberty and the Enfranchisement of Women1910. Non-Euclidean Geometry1910. Axioms of Geometry1910. The Philosophy of Mathematics1911. Mathematics1911. The Place of Elementary Mathematics in a Liberal Education1913. The Principles of Mathematics in Relation to Elementary Teaching1913. Presidential Address to the London Branch of the Mathematical Association1916. Space, Time, and Relativity1916. The Aims of Education—A Plea for Reform1916. La Théorie Relationniste de L’Espace (The Relational Theory of Space)1916. The Organisation of ThoughtTextual NotesBibliographyIndex