TY - BOOK AU - Alfred North Whitehead AU - Alfred North Whitehead AU - Ultimate physical concepts AU - Space and motion TI - Concept Of Nature: : the tarner lectures delivered in trinity college SN - 9780521092456 U1 - 501 PY - 2007/// CY - Usa PB - Cosimo Classics KW - Nature And Thought N2 - Hailed as "one of the most valuable books on the relation of philosophy and science," Alfred North Whitehead's The Concept of Nature, first published in 1920, was an important contribution to the development of philosophic naturalism. Examining the fundamental problems of substance, space, and time, Whitehead assesses the impact of Einstein's theories as well as the then-recent findings of modern physics on the concept of nature. For students and teachers of natural philosophy, this is essential reading. English mathematician and philosopher ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1861-1947) contributed significantly to 20th-century logic and metaphysics ER -