Pan-Physics: Whitehead's Philosophy of Natural Science

In Victor Lowe & J. B. Schneewind (eds.), Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work, Volume II: 1910-1947. The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 89-130 (1990)
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This chapter of Victor Lowe's Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work, Volume II: 1910-1947 covers the development of Whitehead's philosophy of physics while he was Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Imperial College, London. Under the influence of Einstein's theory of relativity, Whitehead developed a theory of extension that explained the basis of the space-time manifold in terms of an ontology of events. Pan-physics was his term for the unification of the natural sciences as one general science.

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