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9780739109847

Novelty

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  • ISBN13:

    9780739109847

  • ISBN10:

    0739109847

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-05-03
  • Publisher: LEXINGTON BOOKS
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Donald A. Crosby is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Colorado State University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Roles of Novelty
1(14)
The Tooth of Time
15(12)
Changing Possibility
27(10)
Protean Matter
37(10)
Profuse Life
47(20)
Purposive Mind
67(14)
Evocational Education
81(18)
Open Society
99(20)
Works Cited 119(4)
Index 123(4)
About the Author 127

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