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Novelty (Hardcover, New)
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Novelty (Hardcover, New)
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The question of causality has haunted the history of Western
metaphysics since the time of the Pre-Socratic philosophy.
Hand-in-hand with attempts to address this question is the promise
of unlocking larger and more complicated questions pertaining to
human freedom. But what of novelty? In this brilliant extended
essay Donald A. Crosby contends that though novelty can't be
comprehended without efficient causality, causality requires a
concept of novelty; without it cause and effect relations are
unintelligible and, indeed, impossible. Crosby, in an excellent,
strong, and controversial way makes the claim that freedom is
consciously directed novelty. In this way, novelty is distinctive;
it is not to be mistaken with either unexpected intersections of
causal chains or chaos. Crosby exposes the reality of novelty
throughout the book and how it applies to time, possibility, forms
of materiality and embodiment, the emergence of life from nonlife,
the evloution and nature of consciousness, the methods and goals of
education, the character of human history and the task of
historians, and also the traits of a good society. In situating
novelty so firmly in the crevices of daily life, Crosby connects it
to our concept of ourself, our freedom, and how we understand our
relationship to the world. Through masterful readings of Isaiah
Berlin, Buber, Descartes, Plato, Smart, Whitehead, and especially
Henri Bergson Donald Crosby sheds new light on an elusive yet
foundational concept in the history of Western thought. This book
is essential to process philosophy, humanism, existentialism,
philosophy of mind and consciousness, and continental thought in
general.
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