Linus comes home from kinder-garden and exclaims that they ”had a very good day today.” He says that they took blocks of wood placed one on top of the other. He exclaims: “It was beautiful.” He goes on to admit that it never would have occurred to him to put one block on…

I am presently teaching a class on the thought of the British/American thinker Alfred North Whitehead. After a brilliant career in England at Cambridge University, Whitehead moved to America and Harvard University. In England he was most famous for partnering with Bertrand Russell in writing a two volume Principia Mathematica in which they proved that…