The Concept of Nature

by Alfred North Whitehead

A. N. WHITEHEAD

THE CONCEPT
OF NATURE

THE TARNER LECTURES
DELIVERED IN TRINITY COLLEGE
NOVEMBER 1919

CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

1920

Contents

Preface

Chapter I: Nature and Thought

Chapter II: Theories of the Bifurcation of Nature

Chapter III: Time

Chapter IV: The Method of Extensive Abstraction

Chapter V: Space and Motion

Chapter VI: Congruence

Chapter VII: Objects

Chapter VIII: Summary

Chapter IX: The Ultimate Physical Concepts