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Six lectures delivered at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, & two at the University of ChicagoPrefaceImportance Expression UnderstandingPerspective Forms of process Civilized universeNature lifelessNature aliveThe aim of philosophyIndex
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Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technolog
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