In this volume, Leemon B. McHenry proposes an event ontology that pays close attention to recent and contemporary advances in physics and is inspired by the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, and Willard V. O. Quine. Confronting the penetrating questions of "What is the status of events in our general theory of the world?" (1), "How do we acquire our theory of the world?" (22), and "Which theory is more in accordance with the science of our time?" (68), McHenry investigates physical reality from the standpoint of an event ontology. The work here is "primarily philosophical in its orientation" (ix), although it explores problems that are "on the border between science

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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