Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Whitehead


Related Topics

In the News (Thu 26 Nov 09)

  
 [No title]
Furthermore, Whitehead’s metaphysics is the sole example of a comprehensive philosophical system which aims to take into account the radical transformation of science which occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century with the development of relativity and quantum mechanics, developments with which Whitehead was, as a first rate mathematician, highly familiar.
Whitehead is in fact undoubtedly the foremost exponent of panpsychism in the twentieth century.
Whitehead goes on to proclaim that “this is the grand doctrine of nature as a self-sufficient meaningless complex of fact.
www.scar.utoronto.ca /~seager/whitehead.htm   (4112 words)

  
 Alfred North Whitehead for the Muddleheaded
Whitehead calls himself an empiricist, by which he means a philosopher who takes all of human experience into account, including vague, primitive experiences, such as sleepiness, as well as the clear experiences, like a lightning flash.
Whitehead's God is not the same as the world, and nor is the world a part of God, but they are both forms within the process of enjoyment and desire.
Whitehead asserts first, that the soul is a personal society of serial occasions piled on one another; and second, that perception in the primitive mode of causal efficacy, plus introspection, provides the only information that gives meaning, life and warmth to the dry digital data from the five senses.
www3.sympatico.ca /rlubbock/ANW.html   (7209 words)

  
 Whitehead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Whitehead is appreciative of the accomplishments of the modern world, but he clearly recognizes its limitations as well, and he points beyond it.
Whitehead describes in some detail the transformations and transmutations that are involved in the process of human experience being affected by these external physical events as transmitted through bodily ones.
Whitehead's judgment is that this realm is properly identified as that which is to be worshipped and supremely honored.
www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=43   (13026 words)

  
 Whitehead Light History
Whitehead Light was first established on Whitehead Island in the Penobscot Bay by order of President Thomas Jefferson in 1807.
Whitehead Island is one of the foggiest spots on the coast, averaging 80 days of fog a year.
Whitehead Light was one of the lighthouses included in the Maine Lights Program authorized by Congress and coordinated by the Island Institute of Rockland.
www.lighthouse.cc /whitehead/history.html   (1613 words)

  
 Alfred North Whitehead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The genesis of Whitehead's process philosophy may be attributable to the shocking collapse of the Newtonian physics that he had witnessed.
Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism gave rise to process theology, thanks to Hartshorne, John B. Cobb, Jr, and David Ray Griffin.
Willard Quine, 1941, "Whitehead and the rise of modern logic" in Schilpp (1941).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead   (1737 words)

  
 Alfred North Whitehead (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Whitehead's philosophical influence can be felt in all three of the main areas in which he worked (i.e., logic and the foundations of mathematics, the philosophy of science, and metaphysics) as well as in other areas such as ethics, education and religion.
Like Gottlob Frege, Whitehead and Russell took the view that numbers could be identified with sets of sets, and that number-theoretic operations could be explained in terms of set theoretic operations such as intersection, union, and difference.
Whitehead's basic idea was that we obtain the abstract idea of a spatial point by considering the limit of a real-life series of volumes extending over each other, for example, a nested series of Russian dolls or a nested series of pots and pans.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/whitehead   (1800 words)

  
 Vincent Whitehead - publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
WHITEHEAD, V.B. A Study of the predators and parasites Planococcus citri (Risso) (Homoptera) on vines in the Western Cape Province, South Africa.
WHITEHEAD, V.B. and de KOCK, A. Reduction of mealybug populations in vineyards of the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
WHITEHEAD, V.B. Biology of the digger wasp Stizus chrysorrhoeus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) in the Western Cape.
www.museums.org.za /bio/people/whitehead-vb_pubs.htm   (974 words)

  
 Election 2005 School board’s Gordon Whitehead builds trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Whitehead’s mission is to raise the standards and academic achievements for all students in the district.
Whitehead said his greatest regret for the district is “the polarization of school funding and their resultant funding shortfalls which have cost our students,” He added the district needs smaller classes, a project he’d like to work on during his second term.
Whitehead said his seven children, ages 18 to 33, and two grandchildren are the light of his life.
www.theacorn.com /news/2005/1103/Community/024.html   (556 words)

  
 Category List --- Religion-Online.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
While Whitehead is appreciative of the accomplishments of the modern world, he clearly recognizes its limitations, and points beyond them.
Whitehead's postmodern sensibility is highly critical of the dominant leadership of the traditional religions, insisting that religion needs to be liberated from the shackles in which it is now bound.
Whitehead’s thought connects with that of "situation ethics." In this view, obeying moral rules is not the answer.
www.religion-online.org /listbycategory.asp?Cat=31   (462 words)

  
 Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation | Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Lettie Pate Whitehead was born Letitia Pate in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1872.
Whitehead died in 1906 at the age of 42.
Whitehead became one of the first women to serve on the board of directors of a major American corporation, serving as director of The Coca-Cola Company for almost twenty years beginning in 1934.
www.lpwhitehead.org /bio.asp   (468 words)

  
 Whitehead
The discussion of how the paradigmatic thinking (or closed mindset) of Christianity, in an early era, virtually shut down any advance or development of mathematical thought (for centuries!), while creative advances flourished elsewhere, is most enlightening, and serves as an instructive caveat, or warning, about the danger of lapsing into dogmatic slumbers.
Whitehead is the one major thinker of the twentieth century who has really tried to put things together.
Whitehead was not an expert in all of these.
www.hyattcarter.com /whitehead.htm   (651 words)

  
 Whitehead
Whitehead - - - 2006/Feb/05 - 292072 bytes
GDFSNE V4 - James Savage Daniel Whitehead of Huntington or Newton, L. 1650 was one of the patentees in the grant of Governor Nichols 1666, left sons Daniel, Jonathan, David and Adam.
The Whitehead genealogy by C. Curtis states and Daniel Whitehead born 1603 had sons Daniel and David, but a note states that John Ingersoll father in law of Adam Whitehead who died intestate in Huntington, L. in 1681 was appointed administrator to his estate.
www.cowaro.com /Genealogy/Surname_file/Whitehead.html   (6128 words)

  
 James Tillotson Whitehead, 1936-2003
Jim Whitehead was a poet and novelist and former offensive lineman at Vanderbilt.
Whitehead had a keen intellect, a firm sense of justice on the race issue that was roiling the South at the time and a fully formed ferocity on a broad range of thought from the painting of Vermeer to the theology of St. Augustine.
Whitehead was born on March 15, 1936, in St. Louis to Dick Bruun Whitehead and Ruth Ann Tillotson.
damon.typepad.com /whitehead   (5530 words)

  
 Process Philosophy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Whitehead’s aim in the second and third periods was to produce to metaphysical system that was adequate and applicable to the modern scientific worldview—a world of relativity, quantum mechanics, and biological organisms—while also being as consistent and coherent as possible.
Whitehead’s effort at a philosophy of organism were stongly influenced by Bergson, Bradley, and James, and thus it has a strongly pragmatists feel about it.
Whitehead’s process philosophy has been extraordinarily influential on theology in the second half of the twentieth century.
people.bu.edu /wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/wphil/lectures/wphil_theme23.htm   (722 words)

  
 Powell's Books - John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
From the author of The Intuitionist comes a retelling of the legend of John Henry that sweeps across generations and cultures in a stunning, hilarious, and unsettling portrait of American society.
Colson Whitehead’s eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the fl steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him.
Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist was one of the most highly praised and award-winning first novel of all time.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0385498209-3   (679 words)

  
 Whitehead, County Antrim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whitehead is a seaside village on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, lying almost midway between Carrickfergus and Larne.
Neighbours actress Jackie Woodburne was born in Whitehead in 1957.
Whitehead is classified as an intermediate settlement by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (ie with population between 2,250 and 4,500 people).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitehead,_Northern_Ireland   (334 words)

  
 Alfred North Whitehead -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
The Australasian Association for Process Thought was formed in 1996 by process philosopher and theologian, Dr. Greg Moses and computer scientist, Peter Farleigh, with support from biologist and writer, Professor Charles Birch and humanities professor, Wayne Hudson.
When Alfred North Whitehead published The Principle of Relativity in 1922 as an alternative to Einstein’s 1905 and 1916 expositions, it immediately suffered the same ignoble stillbirth of Hume’s first Treatise.
Whitehead’s mathematical treatment of special relativity doesn’t differ from Einstein’s, and where it does with respect to general relativity, the available evidence hasn’t been kind to Whitehead.
www.erraticimpact.com /~american/html/whitehead.htm   (534 words)

  
 Whitehead Insurance - Home
Whitehead Insurance of Maryville-Alcoa was established in 2001, when Roger Whitehead, a lifelong resident of East Tennessee joined the group.
Whitehead Insurance strives to establish a relationship—a "home-town" partnership between you, the insurance company and our friendly staff.
Now as Whitehead Insurance expands beyond the physical office with this web site, an online presence in the worldwide community, we want you to know that we consider this simply another way to provide the friendly "home-town" service for which we are known.
www.whitehead-insurance.com   (302 words)

  
 Whitehead Institute - Researchers offer proof-of-concept for Altered Nuclear Transfer
(Oct. 17, 2005) - Scientists at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have successfully demonstrated that a theoretical-and controversial-technique for generating embryonic stem cells is indeed possible, at least in mice.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a nonprofit, independent research and educational institution.
Wholly independent in its governance, finances and research programs, Whitehead shares a close affiliation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through its faculty, who hold joint MIT appointments.
www.whitehead.mit.edu /news/archives/2005/rj_1016.html   (871 words)

  
 Whitehead Institute - Research News
Whitehead Members Susan Lindquist and Richard Young, along with postdoctoral scientist Laurie Boyer, have been named in Scientific American magazine’s annual list of the world’s 50 top leaders in research, business or policy.
Whitehead Member Terry Orr-Weaver is one of 72 new members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Whitehead Member Rudolf Jaenisch and MIT graduate student Alexander Meissner successfully extracted mouse stem cells from a genetically altered embryo-like entity that is unable to implant in a uterus.
www.whitehead.mit.edu /news   (720 words)

  
 fUSION Anomaly. Alfred North Whitehead
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947), British mathematician and metaphysician, generally recognized as one of the greatest 20th-century philosophers.
Whitehead explored and explained fundamental natural concepts in scientific terms in order to formulate a philosophy of natural science.
He did this by examining concepts that, although acceptable to the pure scientist as unexplained hypotheses, had to be explained and verified through his method of philosophical analysis.
fusionanomaly.net /alfrednorthwhitehead.html   (865 words)

  
 Alan Whitehead MP
Alan Whitehead MP met with shopworkers' union Usdaw and several teenagers as part of the union's campaign for a culture of 'No ID, no sale' and for a national Proof of Age scheme for youngsters.
Alan Whitehead MP invited two Southampton community workers, Marie Draper and Geeta Uppal, to a reception at Number 10 Downing Street in recognition of their outstanding work in the community.
Alan Whitehead MP for Southampton Test, said, "I am extremely concerned about the crippling effect this threatened increase will have on the Hythe Ferry and have written to the valuation office and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for answers.
www.alan-whitehead.org.uk /news.html   (4928 words)

  
 John Whitehead - AOL Music
John C. Whitehead was born in Evanston, Illinois.
In the case of John Whitehead here was a man who gave so much to the world.
John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, is urging Virginia public school superintendents to respect the rights of students and teachers to...
music.aol.com /artist/john-whitehead/137642/main?_pgtyp=pdct   (120 words)

  
 Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Weinberg to head Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology at MIT (11/15)
Whitehead researchers named among Scientific American’s top 50 (11/6)
Whitehead Institute and the Department of Biology at M.I.T. are seeking an outstanding scientist for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level
www.wi.mit.edu   (63 words)

  
 Whitehead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gordon Whitehead, Contributed to the death of Houdini
Whitehead, British mathematician and nephew of A. Whitehead
Whitehead, North Carolina, Alleghany County, North Carolina 36.2802N 81.0910W
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitehead   (194 words)

  
 Bold Type: Colson Whitehead
Lila Mae becomes involved in the search for the notebooks and discovers a secret that will change her life forever.
Colson Whitehead has written an utterly original novel, and in Lila Mae Watson he has created one of the most endearing heroines in quite some time.
Marked by lithe prose and a stylish urban vision, Whitehead offers a thoroughly engaging meditation on race.
www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/1298/whitehead   (270 words)

  
 Whitehead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The son of James R. and Eva Estella (Horn) Whitehead, he was born on June 17, 1912, in Kahoka, MO. He attended school at Fairmont.
Survivors include his son, Robert Whitehead and his wife Vivian of Wyaconda, MO; three daughters, Barbara Whitehead of Dixon, IL, Mrs.
Memorials are suggested to the family and can be left at or mailed to: Gerth Funeral Service, 115 S. Main, Memphis, MO 63555.
www.nemr.net /~gfs/Whitehead2002.htm   (322 words)

  
 whitehead - OneLook Dictionary Search
Whitehead, whitehead : Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary, 27th Edition [home, info]
Whitehead : MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia [home, info]
Phrases that include whitehead: whitehead alfred north, whitehead deformity, whitehead manifold, whitehead theorem, whitehead torpedo, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=whitehead   (244 words)

  
 William & Elizabeth (Harvin) Whitehead
By the late 1790's he and his sisters Nancy (Whitehead) Gayle and Mary (Whitehead) Greening were in Sumter Dist., SC which is probably where William married Elizabeth Harvin, Born Ca 1784, daughter of John Harvin and his first wife Mary Gayle.
Dr Whitehead's Estate was handled by the law firm of Stephen P West, which was later, according to correspondence in the file, West and Chester, Lawyers and Land Agents, Woodville, Texas
The use among her Descendants of Gayle AS a given name, as well as the use of a somewhat unusual given name that was common to this Gayle family (''Celsus") are compelling evidence that Elizabeth was the daughter of John and first wife Mary (Gayle) Harvin.
home.inu.net /sadie/wwhitehead.htm   (8567 words)

  
 Salon Books | THE SALON INTERVIEW: Colson Whitehead
olson Whitehead's bewitching first novel, "The Intuitionist," is certainly not autobiographical.
A Manhattan native and Harvard graduate who went to work as an editorial assistant at the Village Voice and eventually became that paper's TV critic, Whitehead has never inspected an elevator or belonged to an old-time union, like Lila Mae Watson, the beleaguered heroine of his book.
Perhaps it was his early penchant for Stephen King novels that gave Whitehead's fiction a decidedly imaginative bent.
www.salon.com /books/int/1999/01/cov_si_12int.html   (632 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.