The Function of Reason

by Alfred North Whitehead

THE
FUNCTION OF REASON

BY

Alfred North Whitehead, Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S.

Fellow of Trinity College in the University of Cambridge
and Professor of Philosophy
in Harvard University

LOUIS CLARK VANUXEM
FOUNDATION LECTURES
DELIVERED AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY,
MARCH 1929

PRINCETON

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

1929

Contents

Introductory Summary

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III