Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines including ecology theology education physics biology economics and psychology among other areas.In his early career Whitehead wrote primarily on mathematics logic and physics.
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birth date
1861-02-15
birth place
Kent, Ramsgate
death date
1947-12-30
death place
Cambridge Massachusetts
era
20th-century philosophy
individualised GND number
118632175
influenced
B. F. Skinner, Bertrand Russell, Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mordecai Kaplan, Bernard Loomer, C. D. Broad, Ervin László, Catherine Keller (theologian), Dorothy Emmet, Jay McDaniel, Schubert M. Ogden, Hans Jonas, Norman Pittenger, Talcott Parsons, Willard Van Orman Quine, David Ray Griffin, Nancy R. Howell, Ilya Prigogine, Wolfhart Pannenberg, F. S. C. Northrop, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, Paul Weiss (philosopher), Charles Malik, Wilfred Eade Agar, Henry Nelson Wieman, Bruce G. Epperly, C. Robert Mesle, Susanne Langer, Jean Ladrière, David Bohm, Reinhold Niebuhr, Bruno Latour, Charles Hartshorne, Nicholas Rescher, Jean Wahl, John B. Cobb, Sewall Wright, William E. Kaufman, Daniel Day Williams, Thomas Jay Oord, Isabelle Stengers, Franklin I. Gamwell, Charles Birch, Philip Clayton (theologian), Roland Faber, Conrad Hal Waddington, John Lighton Synge, William Irwin Thompson, H. Richard Niebuhr, Ian Barbour, Wolfgang Smith, Jules Vuillemin, Philippe Devaux, Michel Weber, Luis G. Pedraja, Joseph A. Bracken, Milič Čapek, Monica Coleman
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