Chinen, Allan B. “Alfred North Whitehead and Adult Modal Development.” In Adult Development Vol. 2, Models and Methods in the Study of Adolescent and Adult Thought, edited by Michael L. Commons and Cheryl Armon, 25-42. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990.

Abstract

This essay looks that the intellectual life of Alfred North Whitehead as a dramatic case of adult cognitive development. The author employs a “modal development” scheme in an attempt to understand Whitehead’s “startling evolution.”