Whitehead's philosophy points of connection edited by Polanowski and Sherburne in 2004
I. An introductory essay
1. Whitehead, Descartes, and Terminology by Donald Sherburne
II. Whitehead and classical American philosophy
2. Whitehead and pragmatism by Robert Neville
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pragmatism and process philosophy, especially in the early years, worked the same side of the street, defending
- realism against idealism
- realism in the other sense against nominalism
- the importance of experience in a broader sense than British empiricism,5
- the possibility of metaphysics in the grand tradition though in revolutionary forms critical of the tradition,6
- the importance of philosophy for public life rather than as an academic subject alone (as it tended to be on British, German, and French models of philosophy),7
- the meaning of truth as correspondence
- the criteria of truth as pragmatic (some pragmatists are more careful with this distinction than others),9
- fallibilism and the method of hypothesis over against foundationalism,10
- all of the above in considerable self-conscious cooperation over against both Anglo-American analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy which were dominant in the English* speaking academic world throughout the last two-thirds of the twentieth century, with the result that pragmatism and process philosophy together were marginalized in academic philosophy from the 1960s onward.