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Whitehead and Relativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Francis Seaman
Francis Seaman*
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University of Idaho
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When Whitehead's views of relativity are mentioned, everyone thinks of the views Whitehead published between 1919 and 1924. Concerning these views, C. D. Broad is “depressed”1 (1: pp. 143–4) that physicists paid so little attention. And Victor Lowe has written:

There is a bare possibility that Whitehead's theory of relativity may yet affect the history of science. (4: p. 69)

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , July 1955 , pp. 222 - 226
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1955

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