Excerpt from Philosophical Essays for Alfred North Whitehead: February Fifteenth, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Six The following essays were written for Alfred North White head by a group of his students. The membership of this, as of any such group, is arbitrary. It might have been either larger or smaller. The individuals composing the group, however, represent many different tendencies in contempo rary American philosophy, and the volume indicates some, at least, of the many directions in which the thought of Whitehead is being felt. The arrangement of the essays calls for a word. Three are distinctly more historical in approach than the others. They have been placed first, and are followed by the remaining ones, arranged according to their subjects, which fall roughly under the headings of logic and methodology, metaphysics and ethics. The essays express the interest of their writers. Each deals with one special topic, and at the same time suggests the general philosophical viewpoint of its author. Consequently, the content of the volume is extremely varied. Nevertheless, certain leading ideas appear in many of the papers, though in very different forms and contexts, and thus relate the papers both to each other and to the philosophy which has influenced them all. Whether there is anything of the spirit of that philosophy in them - and the hope that there is constitutes the sole excuse for the appearance of this volume - the reader must judge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.