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The document is a corrected edition edited by David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne, created in response to extensive errors and major discrepancies between the American and English versions, including differing formats and pagination. It outlines the editorial principles and reconstructs parts of the original production process to explain sources of textual mistakes.","# PROCESS AND REALITY\n\nAN ESSAY IN COSMOLOGY  \nGIFFORD LECTURES DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITYOF EDINBURGH DURING THE SESSION 1927-28  \nBY  \nALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD  \nF.R.S.,Sc.D.(Cambridge),Hon.D.Sc.(Manchester),Hon.LL.D.(St.Andrews),Hon.D.Sc.(Wisconsin),Hon.Sc.D.(Harvard and Yale)  \n# CORRECTED EDITION\n\nEDITED BY  \nDAVID RAY GRIFFIN  \nAND  \nDONALD W.SHERBURNE  \nTHE FREE PRESS  \nA DIVISION OF MACMILLAN PUBLISHING Co.,INc.  \nNEW YORK  \nCopyright 1978 by The Free Press  \nA Division of Macmillan Publishing Co.,Inc.Copyright,1929,by Macmillan Publishing Co.,Inc.Copyright renewed 1957 by Evelyn Whitehead.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproducedor transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic ormechanical,including photocopying,recording,or by anyinformation storage and retrieval system,without permissionin writing from the Publisher.  \nThe Free Press  \nA Division of Macmillan Publishing Co.,Inc.866 Third Avenue,New York,N.Y.10022  \nCollier Macmillan Canada,Ltd.  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number:77-90011  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nprinting number  \n12345678910  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data  \nWhitehead,Alfred North,1861-1947.Process and reality.  \n(Gifford lectures ;1927-28)Includes index.  \n1.  Cosmology--Addresses,essays,lectures.  \n2.Science--Philosophy--Addresses,essays,lectures.  \n3.  Organism(Philosophy)--Addresses,essays,lectures.  \nI.  Griffin,DavidII,  Sherburne,Donald W.III.  Title.  TV.  Series.  \nBD511.W51978113ISBN 0-02-934580-477-90011  \n# EDITORS’PREFACE\n\nProcess and Reality,Whitehead's magnum opus,is one of the majorphilosophical works of the modern world,and an extensive body of sec-ondary literature has developed around it.Yet surely no significant philo-sophical book has appeared in the last two centuries in nearly so deplorablea condition as has this one,with its many hundreds of errors and withover three hundred discrepancies between the American(Macmillan)andthe English(Cambridge)editions,which appeared in different formatswith divergent paginations.The work itself is highly technical and far fromeasy to understand,and in many passages the errors in those editions weresuch as to compound the difficulties.The need for a corrected edition hasbeen keenly felt for many decades.  \nThe principles to be used in deciding what sorts of corrections ought tobe introduced into a new edition of Process and Reality are not,however,immediately obvious.Settling upon these principles requires that one takeinto account the attitude toward book production exhibited by White-head,the probable history of the production of this volume,and the twooriginal editions of the text as they compare with each other and withother books by Whitehead.We will discuss these various factors to providebackground in terms of which the reader can understand the rationale forthe editorial decisions we have made.  \nWhitehead did not spend much of his own time on the routine tasksassociated with book production.Professor Raphael Demos was a youngcolleague of Whitehead on the Harvard faculty at the time,1925,of thepublication of Science and the Modern World.Demos worked over themanuscript editorially,read the proofs,and did the Index for that volume.The final sentence of Whitehead's Preface reads:\"My most gratefulthanks are due to my colleague Mr.Raphael Demos for reading the proofsand for the suggestion of many improvements in expression.\"After re-tiring from Harvard in the early 1960's,Demos became for four years acolleague at Vanderbilt University of Professor Sherburne and shared withhim his personal observations concerning Whitehead's indifference to theproduction process.  \nBertrand Russell¹provides further evidence of Whitehead's sense ofpriorities when he reports that Whitehead,in response to Russell's com-  \nvi Editors'Preface  \nplaint that he had not answered a letter,“justified himself by saying thatif he answered letters,he would have no time for original work.”Russellfound","cbCaisr7n9InYiRY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisr7n9InYiRY","pdf",23335840,7,1,398,"English","en",105,"# Editors’ Preface\n## Corrected Edition Rationale\n## Editorial Principles and Production History\n## Whitehead’s Approach to Book Production\n## Reconstruction of Errors and Manuscript Stages","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the corrected edition address?\",\"answer\":\"The editors note numerous errors and extensive discrepancies—over three hundred—between the 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