Alfred North Whitehead — mathematician, co-author of Principia Mathematica, and philosopher of science — delivered the Tarner Lectures published as The Concept of Nature (1920) at the exact moment relativity was upending common sense. Against the ‘bifurcation of nature’ into scientific reality and mere appearance, Whitehead argues for nature as we actually experience it: events, durations, and the passage of things.
It is philosophy written by a man who understood the new physics from the inside, and it seeded process philosophy to come. Download the free EPUB and think about what an electron and a sunset have in common.