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		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’s description of the doctrine of the autonomy of physical science also suggests that the problem lies with the presumed inert, passive or ‘empty’ nature of matter.
	www.scar.utoronto.ca /~seager/whitehead.htm (4112 words)

	Whitehead problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whitehead in the 1950s, motivated by the second Cousin problem.
		Progress for larger groups was slow, and the problem was considered one of the most important ones in algebra for many years.
		The Whitehead problem was the first purely algebraic problem that was shown to be undecidable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitehead_problem (419 words)

	Why Whitehead?
		Whitehead thought that both kinds of power exist in the world, but that the more ultimate power, the greater power, the more fundamental power, is the power to give life and freedom to others rather than the power to force others to do one’s will—to overpower others in that sense.
		Whitehead, on strictly philosophical grounds, came to the same conclusions that many biblical theologians have arrived at on biblical grounds, namely that this identification of God with the metaphysically ultimate reality—Being—is a mistake.
		Whitehead says there is another reality, quite different from creativity, which is the ground or the principle or the source of freedom, of novelty, of order, of the increase of value.
	www.hyattcarter.com /why_whitehead.htm (5809 words)

	The agent model of the human (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Given Whitehead's principle that the subject‑predicate form of language is misleading for the notion of process and its implication that no subject undergoes process but is the result of process, the difficulty of talking about a unified subject in his system is not surprising.
		Whitehead has said throughout that the actual entity is only a subject at the moment of satisfaction, that is, at the moment at which it achieves subjective unity.
		Whitehead wants to say just enough about God which is different from what he says of other actual entities to warrant the charge that God is an exception to the principles of the understanding of actual entities.
	www.philosophy-religion.org /kirkpatrick/process.htm (8029 words)

	20th WCP: Personal Selfhood(?) and Human Experience in Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism
		Whitehead’s theory of human personhood is formulated within the fabric of his highly original western metaphysical vision.
		Whitehead may indeed give verbal assent to the continuity of the human self, but his overall exposition has failed to convince both sympathetic and non-sympathetic critics of the viability of his formulation.
		Whitehead further says, "Each actuality is essentially bipolar, physical and mental, and the physical inheritance is essentially accompanied by a conceptual reaction [the mental pole of an actual entity] partly conformed to, and partly introductory of, a relevant novel contrast, but always introducing emphasis, valuation, and purpose" (ibid., 165).
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/PPer/PPerYong.htm (3897 words)

	Whitehead and Locke’s Concept of "Power"
		Hume was quite aware of that fact and dealt with the problem of power on the level of cause and effect; however, instead of seeing the problem as an ontological one, he too practiced epistemology, perhaps somewhat more sophisticated, but still descriptively.
		It was Whitehead who transformed the problem of the effects of power, from an epistemological to an ontological problem, into the form of the origin of the constitution of the power of perception.
		Whitehead’s analysis is in terms of contrasting, differentiating, and discerning of the very act of perception.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2591 (7530 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Intuitionist: a Novel: Books: Colson Whitehead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Whitehead is using an abstract vehicle apparently in an effort to make a statement about race relations today, but he sets the story in a time when racism was brutally overt.
		Whitehead was apparently attempting to do this with the elevators (perhaps by commenting on man vis a vis machine), but failed to provide clarity.
		The central analogy of Colson Whitehead's "The Intuitionist" is quite simple: the elevator, an important device in the skyward expansion of metropolitan areas, can also serve to lift fls into an equal position with whites.
	www.amazon.ca /Intuitionist-Novel-Colson-Whitehead/dp/0385493002 (1881 words)

	pitch.com - News - No religion, no job? Humanist professor files EEOC complaint against KU Med on grounds of religious ...
		Whitehead has appealed his termination with the Steering Committee of the KU Faculty Assembly, which after several delays set a hearing for May 9 on Whitehead's appeal.
		Some professors at KU and other state universities also believe that part of the problem with Whitehead's $37,000-a-year position is that it doesn't fit into the corporate-style administration of modern universities, where top administrators receive six-figure salaries to lead their institutions.
		Whitehead was a Fulbright Scholar to University College in London in 1966, earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Kansas and master's and doctoral degrees in English from Columbia University in New York City in 1972.
	www.pitch.com /issues/2000-05-11/points.html (1021 words)

	THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the case of the mind-body problem, this means that Aristotelian thinking never died and was perpetuated, for example, in the study of living phenomena ('biology' is a nineteenth-century term).
		Whitehead is eloquent in his critique of the features and the consequences of the doctrine of primary and secondary qualities, a doctrine which lies at the basis of modern thought just as securely as the parent mind-body dichotomy.
		Rather than remaining split by the mind-body problem, it would surely be better to find a way of knowing that (to paraphrase Gilbert and Sullivan) the meaning isn't matter and never idle patter of a transcendental kind.
	www.human-nature.com /rmyoung/papers/pap102h.html (3659 words)

	News Herald Local News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Whitehead owns 100 percent of the dealership, which is one of Panama City's oldest.
		Whitehead said his decision to go with First Team Management was based on the company's philosophy of customer service and excellence.
		Whitehead said he decided to sell because he didn't have "children or nieces or nephews or close relatives" to pass the dealership to.
	www.newsherald.com /LOCAL/FORD823.HTM (566 words)

	Atlas: On the generalized Whitehead problem for hyperbolic groups by Oleg Bogopolski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For free groups of finite rank the Whitehead problem of the first and of the second kinds were solved by J. Whitehead and J. McCool.
		Note that if for G the generalized Whitehead problem is solvable, then for G the Whitehead problems of the first and of the second kinds are solvable.
		Let G be a hyperbolic torsion free group and suppose that for G the Whitehead problem of the second type is solvable.
	atlas-conferences.com /cgi-bin/abstract/caqd-54 (347 words)

	whitehead-http-etag-00.txt
		Etags are used in HTTP 1.1 for caching, and the Web Whitehead Expires August 31, 2006 [Page 3] Internet-Draft State Identifiers in HTTP/WebDAV February 2006 Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) authoring protocol uses Etags in conjunction with locks to avoid the lost update problem and keep local client state in synch with the authoring server.
		Problems with Entity Identifiers as Substitute State Identifiers For authoring, the distinction between entity identifiers and state identifiers is problematic.
		Our goal is for this document to be used as a statement Whitehead Expires August 31, 2006 [Page 5] Internet-Draft State Identifiers in HTTP/WebDAV February 2006 of goals for a subsequent protocol specification that substantially addresses the concerns raised herein.
	ietfreport.isoc.org /idref/draft-whitehead-http-etag (3446 words)

	A Response to Ken Wilber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I focus on the mind-body problem, referred to variously as “the hard problem,” or the “world knot.” This is perhaps the major philosophical or ontological issue of our time (for the past four hundred years since Descartes established the dualism of body and soul).
		It is the “hard problem,” as identified by Max Velmans and David Chalmers, and discussed so vigorously in the past few years by some of today’s leading philosophers and mind-body theorists.
		It is misleading, and confusing—and irrelevant—to bring these other “easy” problems into a discussion of the really “hard problem.” And it is plainly wrong to claim to have provided a solution to “the mind-body problem” by describing progress in these other fields.
	www.deepspirit.com /sys-tmpl/replytowilbercontd2 (3261 words)

	Whitehead
		Penrose “objective reductions”: Whitehead “occasions” in fundamental spacetime geometry?
		Whitehead proposed that consciousness was a series of “occasions” occurring in a “wider field of proto-conscious experience”.
		Whitehead’s philosophical approach is consistent with modern physics, and only such a union of philosophy and science can account for consciousness.
	www.quantumconsciousness.org /Whitehead.htm (6606 words)

	Ken Wilber Online: Do Critics Misrepresent My Position (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The problem, again, is that although I explicitly state that all four of these meanings are important parts of the overall puzzle, de Quincey takes each one in turn, claims that it is the ONLY aspect of the mind-body that I acknowledge, and then lambastes and ridicules me for being confused, ill-informed, and befuddled.
		That is aspect #3b of the mind-body problem and its solution according to the nondual traditions; and I believe that that is the fourth aspect of the mind-body problem that very much needs to be included in any integral approach.
		This solution to this part of the mind-body problem does not replace or supplant the other three meanings (and the other three partial solutions); it is simply the capstone of an integral approach that attempts to honor and include all four of these meanings and all four partial solutions.
	wilber.shambhala.com /html/misc/critics_02.cfm (2731 words)

	BACKGROUND
		The importance of this problem is in its relation to two outstanding problems in low-dimensional topology -- to the Poincare and Andrews-Curtis conjectures.
		This question was motivated by complexity issues for Whitehead's algorithm that determines whether or not a given element of a free group of finite rank is an automorphic image of another given element.
		In fact, the procedure outlined in the original paper by Whitehead, suggested this part of the algorithm to be of superexponential time with respect to the length of the words.
	zebra.sci.ccny.cuny.edu /web/nygtc/problems/Back.html (4533 words)

	Ars Mathematica » Blog Archive » Whitehead problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is forlorn because we now know that we’ll never know: this is the Whitehead problem, and in 1973 Saharon Shelah proved that it is independent of the axioms of set theory.
		This is the “irrationality of sqrt(2)” problem, and some smartass greek proved it to be independent of the axioms of field theory.
		There are essentiall two main directions these problems fall in - there’s the constructible heierarchy and largeish fragments of set theory with proper forcing.
	www.arsmathematica.net /archives/2006/09/29/whitehead-problem (494 words)

	Ockham's Razor - 16/04/1997: The Hard Problem
		Whitehead rejected materialism and with it the dominant interpretation of science which is mechanistic for what he called an organic view of the universe.
		Whitehead chose the latter - matter is life-like.
		Whitehead said in no uncertain terms, it was a hard problem that would not yield to mechanistic science.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ockham/stories/s33.htm (2003 words)

	The Problem of Induction (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		The problem of induction thus gains weight, at least in the context of modern empiricism, for induction now founds empirical meaning: to show that a statement is empirically meaningful we describe a good induction which, were the premises true, would confirm it.
		Popper gave two formulations of the problem of induction; the first is the establishment of the truth of a theory by empirical evidence; the second, slightly weaker, is the justification of a preference for one theory over another as better supported by empirical evidence.
		Carnap initially held that the problem of confirmation was a logical problem; that assertions of degree of confirmation by evidence of a hypothesis should be analytic and depend only upon the logical relations of the hypothesis and evidence.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/induction-problem (15891 words)

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	Metanexus Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Whitehead, to be sure, talks about the “satisfaction” achieved by the actual entity upon completion of its process of concrescence.
		Whitehead’s answer is that the aggregation of actual occasions into “societies” extended in time and space corresponds to the material realities of ordinary perception.
		Whitehead himself, to be sure, only specified four such grades; but there could be many more, given the presupposition of successively more complex societies or structured fields of activity for their constituent actual occasions within Nature.
	www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/printer_friendly.asp?ID=9404 (4877 words)

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	Reading List: Apex Hides the Hurt
		A nomenclature consultant, he conjures up winning brand names such as Apex, the popular bandage that "hides the hurt." The top man at his Manhattan firm, he is legendary for his skills.
		If you've read either of Whitehead's earlier books, John Henry Days or The Intuitionist, you know that his wordplay alone is worth the read.
		When the sun sets and the hero rides out of town, the only nagging questions are those Whitehead meant for you to ponder.
	www.fastcompany.com /magazine/104/playbook-reading.html (478 words)

	Sex Education: The Catholic Scene (introduction) by Margaret Whitehead
		Finding such a solution to this increasingly complex problem will require that all proposals for sex/morality instruction of Catholic school students be subjected to prudent and careful examination and evaluation by bishops and clergy, in consultation with parents.
		Whitehead and Dr. Onalee McGraw started an educational consulting organization, Educational Guidance Institute, Inc. They worked as consultants to Catholic parishes interested in teaching chastity outside of school hours to junior-high students accompanied by their parents.
		Whitehead and Dr. McGraw co-authored a book on this work in the public sector, Foundations of Family Life Education: A Guidebook for Professionals and Parents, published in 1991, with a grant from the Domino Foundation, by EGI, Inc., 188 Berbusse Lane, Front Royal, VA, 22630-5077.
	www.wf-f.org /Whitehead-SexEdintro.html (5355 words)

	J. H. C. Whitehead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Henry Constantine Whitehead (11 November 1904–8 May 1960), known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory.
		The Whitehead problem on abelian groups was solved (as an independence proof) by Saharon Shelah.
		He was the nephew of Alfred North Whitehead.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J._H._C._Whitehead (258 words)

	First column on Christmas wars 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But if Americans are going to keep fighting about Christmas, Whitehead thinks their civic leaders should at least create some constructive debates at the grassroots level where they'll do some good.
		"The problem is that if people in your community want to call it a 'community tree,' they have every right to call it a 'community tree.' But if the people in your community want to call it a 'Christmas tree,' they have every right to call it a 'Christmas tree.'...
		The irony, said Whitehead, is that legal strategists who often disagree about other church-state conflicts agree that America's laws are not all that confusing when it comes to "December dilemma" conflicts in the public square.
	tmatt.gospelcom.net /column/2006/01/04 (660 words)

	ALGORITHMIC PROBLEMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sometimes, when an algorithmic decision problem is known to be solvable, the focus shifts to finding an efficient (e.g.
		According to Whitehead, the problem of detecting whether or not u is an automorphic image of v is decidable.
		Is this problem in the class NP (that is, decidable in nondeterministic polynomial time with respect to the maximum of u, v)?
	www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu /~shpil/gworld/problems/probcomplex.html (195 words)

	durand
		centuries. I argue in this paper that this aspect of Whitehead’s view is a plausible reading of the importance of Ideas to the development of Civilization and that he presents contemporary philosophy with a potentially fruitful way of addressing the problem of Collective Action that is often seen as a result of Rational Choice Theory.
		[28] If Whitehead is committed to the Myth, then his view is buried in the same coffin. I do not see Whitehead’s philosophy of civilization ultimately committing him to such a view, however.
		[20] Johnson 46-7. Since this is surely a passage with which Johnson is familiar and since so much of Johnson's exposition of Whitehead's view seems in concert with Whitehead, one is frankly perplexed by the view that he attributes to Whitehead at this point. Perhaps it is a momentary lapse in the interpretive process.
	www.hsu.edu /default.aspx?id=3547 (1473 words)

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