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an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy,
Born
15 February 1861 Ramsgate, England
Died
30 December 1947 (aged 86) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Institutions
Imperial College London Harvard University
Academic advisors
Edward Routh
adultbasic
Britain
Doctoral students
Raphael Demos Charles Hartshorne Susanne Langer W. V. O. Quine Bertrand Russell Gregory Vlastos Paul Weiss
Education
Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1884)
era
1800+
Era
20th-century philosophy
Main interests
Metaphysics mathematics
Notable ideas
Process philosophy Process theology
Region
Western philosophy
School
Analytic philosophy (early) Logicism (early) Process philosophy Process theology