Science and the Modern World

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book non-fiction book philosophy book

Science and the Modern World is a seminal 1925 work of process philosophy in which Alfred North Whitehead analyzes the historical development and philosophical implications of modern science for our understanding of reality.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book → non-fiction book → philosophy book →
academicDiscipline	history of ideas → philosophy → philosophy of science →
author	Alfred North Whitehead →
basedOn	Lowell Lectures →
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom →
criticizes	mechanistic worldview →
describedAs	seminal work of process philosophy →
discusses	historical development of modern science → impact of scientific worldview on metaphysics → philosophical implications of modern science →
firstEditionFormat	print →
followedBy	Process and Reality →
genre	philosophy → philosophy of science → process philosophy →
hasInfluenceOn	Anglo-American philosophy → continental philosophy of science →
hasKeyConcept	critique of scientific materialism → event-based ontology → interrelation of science and civilization → organism as a fundamental category →
influenced	20th-century metaphysics → philosophy of science → process theology →
language	English →
lectureSeriesLocation	Harvard University →
mentionsPhilosopher	Descartes → Galileo Galilei → Isaac Newton →
notableFor	systematic exposition of Whitehead's process philosophy in relation to science →
partOf	Alfred North Whitehead bibliography →
proposes	processual view of reality →
publicationYear	1925 →
publisher	The Macmillan Company →
structure	collection of lectures →
subject	history of science → metaphysics → modern science → process philosophy → relationship between science and philosophy →
timePeriodDiscussed	Scientific Revolution → modern era →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alfred North Whitehead →	notableWork
The Concept of Nature →	relatedWork