When1: 1910
When2: 1938
Who: Alfred North Whitehead [Whitehead, Alfred North]
What: mathematician/philosopher
Where: Britain/USA
works\ Principia Mathematica or Principles of Mathematics [1910 to 1913: with Russell]; Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Science [1919]; Concept of Nature [1920]; Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science [1922]; Science and the Modern World [1925]; Religion in the Making [1926]; Process and Reality [1929]; Adventures of Ideas [1933]; Modes of Thought [1938]
Detail: He lived 1861 to 1947 and was idealist. He studied logical analysis, axiomatized logic, and developed logicism. Events can relate {process, Whitehead}. Relations and events transform object properties. Objects are always changing properties or property values. Reality is about such changes {process philosophy, Whitehead}. Since no properties exist for significant times, processes and relations are more important than matter, time, and position. All things interconnect and continually adjust to environment {philosophy of organism, Whitehead}. Higher properties emerge from lower systems. God is always becoming, and this unifies universe. Qualities are not substances but are mind-activity results.
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