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Although they were all published within the period 1925 to 1929, still there are significant developments in the thought expressed, and these have special importance with respect to the doctrine of God. Of these five books, by far the most significant for the study of his doctrine of God are Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and Reality. The two most important works of the final period are Process and Reality and Adventures of Ideas. They are Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect. In the transitional period, Whitehead published three major books.

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This new vision, of idealistic naturalism or naturalistic idealism, is given its full exposition in the final period. The result is a position quite different from both the idealism and the naturalism current at that time, or indeed at any time. However, there is no substantive problem.) The knower, the percipient event, provides the clue to nature in general. He introduced the knower into the world of nature.(I have called attention to Whitehead’s lack of terminological consistency on this point. In the transitional period from 1925 through 1927 Whitehead was working toward a comprehensive vision. The ultimate philosophical problem of the relation of the knower to the world of nature, he says, is left undetermined by his philosophy of nature.( PNK vii.) Nevertheless, his work of that period left many readers with the impression that nature and its structures are ontologically autonomous and also that the knower may be understood as a part of nature. In the philosophy of nature developed in the closing years of this period, Whitehead attempted systematically to exclude the knower from nature and to show that nature can be coherently understood without reference to any contribution on the part of the perceiver. Even these tend to emphasize the role of mathematics and science. The only published indications of a wider humanistic interest in this period are a few essays on education. In the early period, down to 1922, White-head was preoccupied with mathematics, logic, and philosophy of science. xix.) and William Hammerschmidt (Hammerschmidt, Whitehead’s Philosophy of Time, p.7.) agree in distinguishing three periods in Whitehead’s philosophical development, dated according to the publication of his books. Nathaniel Lawrence(Lawrence, Whitehead’s Philosophical Development, p.

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