Well, Neo, there are loads of folks out there who would disagree emphatically with your conclusion about the "sterility" of Principia Mathematica and of mathematical logic as such,. But, as a mathematical moron, I am not equipped to argue the case..<g>
What I personally find fascinating about Whitehead is what I have read about his later work, which earned him the title of the Father of Process Theology. I can't say that it has been all that influential, but perhaps it should have been. I don't know whether you have actually read Whitehead's later work (as opposed to reading about it), but, FYI, here is an enthusiastic summary:
www3.sympatico.ca
What tickles me is the following paragraph:
Once you have allowed Whitehead's powerful engine of hope to transform your attitude to life
you will never again need to consult another
philosopher. Those sinister philosophical
miseries of the 20th century--you know who I
mean: malignant Heidegger, disjointed
Wittgenstein, cross-eyed Husserl, sour
Sartre--you can consign their jeremiads to the
fire. They failed to salute the quantum and
relativistic earthquakes of our century and so
they're dust, history, trash. Forget 'em.
Joan
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