Matthew Segall of Footnotes2Plato: An Invitation to Explore Alfred North Whitehead
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Einstein's Philosophy of Nature
In 1919 when the expedition led by Arthur Eddington to observe the eclipse in order to test Einstein's theory about light bending around the sun, White Hood was present. This really set White Hood off into the philosophy of nature and metaphysics proper. He wrote a number of books that were attempting to sort of engage Einstein in his philosophical presuppositions. In effect he's saying that science itself has undermined its own original ontology which birthed modern science.
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