Philosophy A: History of Philosophy, spring semester 1927

Abstract

Notes taken by Winthrop Pickard Bell, Robert Underhill, Sinclair Kerby-Miller, and George Perrigo Conger during the introductory class ‘Philosophy A: History of Philosophy’, which Whitehead taught for four sessions. In these four lectures, he discusses the formation of modern science, with a particular focus on Isaac Newton, but also Galileo, Kepler, Descartes.