108. Whitehead Lectures

In April I gave the “Whitehead Lectures” at Harvard. This is a pair of  public lectures organized by the Philosophy Department. I’ve now written them up, and this post is a home for them.

Lecture 1: “Limits of Sentience”

Lecture 2: “Boundaries of Consideration”

Alfred North Whitehead was a mathematician-philosopher who taught at Harvard in the 1920s and 1930s. He is famous for his work with Bertrand Russell on mathematical logic – Principia Mathematica, 1910-1913 – and also for the speculative i...