Clarke, D. S., Jr.  "Whitehead and Contemporary Analytic Philosophy."  Process Studies 16, no. 1 (Spring 1987): 26-34.

Abstract

This article attempts to explain the reason for the neglect of Whitehead's philosophy in recent and analytic philosophy and proposes a way of reformulating the basic project of his "philosophy of organism" in terms of his theory of symbolic functioning.  Two inconsistent versions of symbolic functioning found in Whitehead's writings are outlined, one in which a symbol is used to anticipate a future observed event, the other in which is a causal effect of a physical event.  It is argued that it is only the first which provides a basis for a general theory of signs which can be extended to language.  [Abstract from The Philosopher's Index]