Creativity Between Experience and Cosmos

Maria Regina Brioschi

doi:10.5771/9783495823958

Summary

The book investigates the topic of creativity by focusing on C.S. Peirce’s and A.N. Whitehead’s accounts of novelty. It is divided into three parts. The first part considers the problem of novelty from a philosophical point of view and examines the historical and theoretical connections between the two authors. The second and third parts explore, respectively, Peirce’s and Whitehead’s thoughts on novelty, analyzing their views from three different perspectives – phenomenological, gnoseological, and cosmological. Finally, their thoughts are compared in order to show their contributions to the issue of novelty.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-3-495-49038-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-495-82395-8
Publisher: Karl Alber, Baden-Baden
Series: Whitehead Studien
Volume: 6
Language: English
Pages: 318
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 18
1. 1. 1. The Contemporary Salience of Novelty No access
  2. 2. Novelty: At the Threshold of Philosophy No access
  3. 3. Novelty: The 20th Century’s Renaissance No access
2. 1. 1. 1.1. Peirce’s Acquaintance with Whitehead No access
    2. 1.2. Whitehead’s Acquaintance with Peirce No access
  2. 1. 2.1. »Classic American Philosophy« No access
    2. 2.2. A Startling General Affinity No access
    3. 1. 2.3.1. The Peculiarity of Mathematical Investigation No access
      2. 2.3.2. Connections between Mathematics and Philosophy No access
      3. 2.3.3. Definition of the Aims of Philosophy No access
    4. 2.4. Specific Points of Resemblance No access
3. 1. 1. State of the Art No access
  2. 2. Plan of Work No access
  3. 3. Methodology No access
1. 1. Peirce’s Classification of the Sciences No access Pages 79 - 81
2. 1. 1. 1.1. The Method of Peirce’s Phenomenology No access
    2. 1.2. The Aim of Peirce’s Phenomenology No access
    3. 1. 1.3.1. Firstness No access
      2. 1.3.2. Secondness No access
      3. 1.3.3. Thirdness No access
  2. 1. 2.1. Firstness and Novelty No access
    2. 2.2. Secondness and Novelty No access
    3. 2.3. Thirdness and Novelty No access
  3. 3. The Experience of Novelty No access
3. 1. 1. From Peirce’s Phenomenology to his Theory of Knowledge No access
  2. 2. Into the Realm of Logic: Logic as Semiotics No access
  3. 3. At the Core of Logic: Abduction No access
  4. 1. 4.1. Abduction as Explanatory No access
    2. 1. 4.2.1. Musement and Rational Instinct No access
  5. 5. Toward Metaphysics: From Creative Thinking to Metaphysical Continuity No access
  6. 6. For a Gnoseology and Logic of Novelty No access
4. 1. 1. 1.1. What is Cosmology According to Peirce? No access
    2. 1.2. Metaphysics and Cosmology: A Clarification No access
    3. 1.3. Peirce’s Need for Cosmology: Its Roots in Logic No access
  2. 1. 2.1. Peirce’s Description of Cosmogony: The Hyperbolic Evolution of the Universe No access
    2. 2.2. Peirce’s Diagrammatic Support for Cosmogony No access
    3. 2.3. The Keystone of Synechism and Peirce’s Cosmological Continuity No access
    4. 2.4. Late Cosmological Thought and Categories No access
  3. 1. 3.1. Novelty in the »Cosmological Period«: Chance and Tychism No access
    2. 3.2. Novelty and Categories: The Spontaneity of Firstness between the Necessity of Secondness and the Continuity of Thirdness No access
    3. 3.3. The Novelty of Continuity: Agapastic Evolution, Growth and the Propulsive Power of Love No access
1. 1. Novelty from Peirce to Whitehead: Henri Bergson and William James No access Pages 175 - 180
2. 1. 2.1. Science and Philosophy: Whitehead’s Divergence from Peirce No access
  2. 1. 2.2.1. Critique as Appeal to Concrete Experience No access
    2. 2.2.2. Critique as Survey and Comparison among Sciences No access
    3. 2.2.3. The Constructive Side of Philosophy No access
  3. 2.3. Whitehead’s View of Philosophy and the Present Method of Analysis No access
3. 1. 1. 1.1. The Aim of Whitehead’s Phenomenology No access
    2. 1.2. The Method of Whitehead’s Phenomenology No access
    3. 1.3. The Object of Whitehead’s Phenomenology No access
  2. 1. 2.1. Substance and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness No access
    2. 2.2. Events as the Concreteness of Experience No access
    3. 2.3. The Characters of Event No access
  3. 3. The Experience of Novelty No access
4. 1. 1. 1.1. Doubts on the Basis of Phenomenology No access
    2. 1.2. Limits of The Concept of Nature: The Role of Subjectivity and Philosophy No access
  2. 1. 2.1. »Abstract« and »Concrete« View of Knowledge No access
    2. 2.2. Whitehead’s Analysis of Knowledge No access
  3. 3. Facets of Process: Finitude of Knowledge and Adventures of Ideas No access
  4. 1. 4.1. Novelty in the Pragmatic Side of Reason No access
    2. 4.2. Novelty in the Speculative Side of Reason No access
    3. 4.3. Reason and Novelty: Two Possible Interpretations No access
  5. 5. Novelty and Knowledge No access
5. 1. 1. 1.1. Whitehead’s General Approach to Cosmology and Its Meaning No access
    2. 1. 1.2.1. Speculative Scheme as Cosmological: Its Essential Features No access
      2. 1.2.2. Like the Flight of an Airplane: How to Reach a Philosophical Scheme No access
    3. 1.3. Main Characteristics: Philosophy of Organism and the Role of Experience No access
    4. 1.4. Metaphysical Categories No access
  2. 1. 1. 2.1.1. The Macrocosmic Process: Transition No access
      2. 2.1.2. The Organic Unity of Universe and the Atomism of Actual Entities No access
    2. 2.2. The Microcosm of Actual Entities and the Process of Concrescence No access
  3. 1. 3.1. Creativity as the Ultimate of Whitehead’s Cosmology No access
    2. 3.2. The Epitomes of Creativity: Transition, Concrescence and Actual Entities No access
    3. 3.3. Whitehead’s Novelty: The Advance of the Universe Explained No access
6. 1. 1. 1.1. Outline of Peirce’s Account of Novelty No access
    2. 1.2. Outline of Whitehead’s Account of Novelty No access
  2. 1. 2.1. How Do Peirce and Whitehead Allow for Novelty? No access
    2. 2.2. Peirce and Whitehead’s Concept of Novelty No access
1. 1. Charles Sanders Peirce’s Works No access
  2. Alfred North Whitehead’s Works No access
2. 1. Secondary Literature on Peirce No access
  2. Secondary Literature on Whitehead No access
  3. Common Secondary Literature No access
  4. Other Works Cited No access
Index of names No access Pages 313 - 316
Index of concepts No access Pages 317 - 318