Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925

In these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about WhiteheadÂ’s first year of philosophy lectures. Do these lectures challenge or confirm previous understandings of WhiteheadÂ’s published works? What is revealed about the development of WhiteheadÂ’s thought in the crucial period after London but before the publication of Science and the Modern World? What should we make of concepts and terms that were introduced in these lectures but were never incorporated into subsequent publications? Also included is the text of WhiteheadÂ’s first lecture at Harvard, recently gifted to the Critical Edition, allowing for a clearer understanding of WhiteheadÂ’s plans and goals for his first course of lectures in philosophy than has previously been possible.