Summary of Sinclair Kerby-Miller's Notes of Whi tehead's Lectures
Fall 1928
September 27
Scope of philosophy; philosophy correlates Our varied interests
by a set of genera2- ideas,
Kerby-Miller missed second recture. (Sept. 29)
October 2
Speculative philosophy, defined; coherence: nature of languages
analogy of the airplane.
October 4
Language and philosophy; propositions.
October 8
Nexus; relation of concrete and abstract; creativity;
categories of existence; categories of explanation
October 14
Categories of explanation (continued).
October 13
Categoreal obligations.
October 18
pecision; particulars and universals; eternal objects;
satisfaction; extensive continuum; appetitionSummary of S. Kerby-Miller's Notes of Whitehead's Lectures
October 18
Order,defined; nexus; Relevance of forms to actuality.
November 1
Extensive continuum; space and time; internal and external
relations,
November 3
Theory of induction; denial of disjunction of entities;
Hume, on causation,
November 6
Order and complexity; primordial nature of God; Kant,on experience;
compatibility, order, depth of feeling; laws of nature;
transmutation; life;
NOvember 6 (part 2, listed as pp. 3-4)
Mentality; order; cosmic epochs; .ground of order.
November 6
Nature of cosmology; electromagnetic epoch.
November _15
Two notions of organism, microscopic and macroscopic; subjective
form; depth and complexity of experience; feeling
December 5 (probably given on December 4)
Propositions; language; relations; nexus.Summary” of S, Kerby-Miller's Notes of Whitenead's lectures
December 6
Metaphysics; probability.
December 8
Probability; random sampling; induction,
December 11
Permanence and flux; concrescence; transition; satisfaction;
phases Of conerescence; notion of organism,
December 13
Mind-body problem; mental pole; physical pole; coordination
of experience,
December 15
Adequacy of our philosophies; final outline of course,