Dean, William.  "Whitehead's Other Aesthetic."  Process Studies 13, no. 1 (Spring 1983): 104-12.

Abstract

The article argues that A.N. Whitehead's aesthetic is not only a rational aesthetic, as it is commonly said to be, but is also an empirical aesthetic.  After setting forth Donald Sherburne's rationalist claim that for Whitehead art is a proposition, the article cites Whitehead's empiricist epistemology, and shows how this issues in an empiricist aesthetic, how this aesthetic can apply to the poems of W. C. Williams, and how this aligns Whitehead's aesthetic with those of W. James and J. Dewey.  [Abstract from The Philosopher's Index]