訪談人物誌 (2)：懷德海(1861~1947) 以1939.1.17的"訪談"為例：Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead By David R. Godine，《懷德海對話錄》(黎登鑫譯)
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| 生誕 | 1861年2月15日 イギリス ケント州ラムズゲート |
|---|---|
| 死没 | 1947年12月30日（86歳没） アメリカ合衆国 マサチューセッツ州ケンブリッジ |
| 時代 | 20世紀哲学 |
| 地域 | 西洋哲学 |
| 学派 | プロセス哲学 |
| 研究分野 | 形而上学、数学 |
| 主な概念 | 有機体の哲学、プロセス哲学 |
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懷德海對話錄
台北：志文。1970/1987
2021.3.3
以1939.1.17的訪談為例
Richard Rummell's 1906 watercolor landscape view of Harvard University, facing northeast.[77] Whitehead taught at Harvard from 1924 to 1937.
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黎登鑫譯
懷德海 (Alfred North Whitehead)
懷德海(A. N. Whitehead, 1861~1947)，為當代英美第一大哲，思想貫穿了科學、哲學與宗教，不僅博大圓融，而且迭創新境。一八六一年生於英國，十九歲進入劍橋大學，專研數學，畢業後留校任教達三十年之久。一九二四年赴美國哈佛大學講學，始發揮其哲學方面的才華。
在劍橋期間，與他的學生羅素(Bertrand Russell)合著《數學原理》(Principia Mathematica)，此書早已成為當代數理邏輯的經典之作。一九四七年去世。其主要作品有《自然知識原理》(Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge )、《自然概念》(The Concept of Nature )、《相對論原理》(The Principle of Relativity)、《科學與現代世界》(Science and the Modern World)、《歷程與實在》(Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology) 等書。
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有懷氏的至友普萊士所編的《懷德海對話錄》(Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead)
Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
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Born: January 6, 1883, Kent, Ohio, United States
Died: March 30, 1964
Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
"Whitehead's approach to life and science provides a compass for the modern world. In these pages the immense reaches of his thought - in philosophy, religion, science, statesmanship, education, literature, art, and conduct of life - are gathered and edited by the writer Lucien Price, a sophisticated journalist whose own interests were as eclectic as Whitehead's and whose memory for verbatim conversation was nothing short of miraculous. The scene, the Cambridge of Harvard from 1932-1947 (with flashbacks to London; Cambridge, England; and his native Ramsgate in Kent); the cast, men and women, often eminent, who join him for these penetrating, audacious, and exhilarating verbal forays. The subjects range from the homeliest details of modern living to the greatest ideas that have animated the mind of man over the past thirty centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
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Reading this book is essentially like having a conversation with a friendly genius. I was genuinely impressed by the down-to-earth attitude coupled with the insight which flowed so naturally out of the conversations. The book also provides quite a bit of historical context to Whitehead's philosophy, and manages to do so in a way that is not only interesting for the study of this philosophy, but also in such a way as to convey the emotional weight of the situations involved. The questions which Price calls forth are the questions which should have been asked, and the conversations had between the two are illuminating. Not only valuable in the study of the man's work, but also in the simple fact that it is a very good read, this book leaves one feeling as if one now knows Whitehead on a personal level, and this is a feat altogether too uncommon amongst other biographic works or dialogues pertaining to Philosophers. I highly recommend this book for an informal introduction to Whitehead's general philosophy, and also to anyone wishing for that feeling one gets in good, intelligent conversation with a man worthy of respect.
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