The thesis of this paper is that, in his first metaphysical work, Whitehead took Berkeley as his model. He stopped perceiving him as a subjective idealist and he leaned to consider him an objective/absolute idealist. He became appreciative of some positive contributions of the Irish philosopher. While continuing to appreciate Berkeley’s critique of the seventeenth century scheme of ideas,...
The geneticist C.H. Waddington found in A.N. Whitehead’s metaphysics the power of generalization that produced the basic principles of process, creativity and choice, all of which provided a theoretical framework and informed the direction of his scientific research on the development and evolution of organisms. In this paper I begin by examining the flaws in a purely mechanistic and...