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This volume brings together the proceedings of the "European Summer School for Process Thought", which took place in Mülheim, Germany, in August 2012. It explores Alfred North Whitehead's thinking in different fields of science, connecting his philosophical writings with physics, religion, education, psychology and aesthetics. The first part of the book is concerned with Whitehead's philosophical methodology, discussing a plethora of subjects, including the interdependence between some of Whitehead's works, the role of logic in his style of argument, concepts of time, the role of symbolism, and the relation between specialized terminology and the colloquial in Whitehead's philosophy. The second part explores applications for the concepts of Whitehead's thinking in a broader context. In scientific fields as diverse as physics, theological and classical Chinese religious thought, concepts of education and psychological theories of embodiment, Whitehead's basic philosophical concepts have been implemented in various different ways. As such, this book holds an interdisciplinary appeal for Whitehead scholars from different scientific backgrounds

Examines the significance of The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924–1925Responds to the question of whether the Harvard Lectures and The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead project change our understanding of the meaning or development of Whitehead's thoughtWritten by international experts on Whitehead – including Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Gary Herstein and Jude Jones – who address a range of different aspects of the scholarly implications of the LecturesThe first monograph responding to the Critical Edition: has the potential to establish the tone and influence the direction of subsequent workIncludes the text of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, recently gifted to the Critical EditionContributes towards setting scholarly conventions for how to cite and reference the volumes of the Critical EditionIn these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead's first year of philosophy lectures. Do these lectures challenge or confirm previous understandings of Whitehead's published works? What is revealed about the development of Whitehead's thought in the crucial period after London but before the publication of Science and the Modern World? What should we make of concepts and terms that were introduced in these lectures but were never incorporated into subsequent publications?Also included in this volume is the text of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, recently gifted to the Critical Edition of Whitehead, allowing for a clearer understanding of Whitehead's plans and goals for his first course of lectures in philosophy than has previously been possible