An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge

A. N. Whitehead explores the relationship between philosophy and science in this classic volume of scientific observation.

First published in 1919, this volume is a study of metaphysics. Alfred North Whitehead was a philosopher and mathematician and this work is followed by two sequels, The Concept of Nature (1920) and The Principle of Relativity (1922).

Originally published in 1919, and first republished in 1925 as this Second Edition, this text ranks among Whitehead's most important works; forming a perspective on scientific observation that incorporated a complex view of experience, rather than prioritising the position of 'pure' sense data.