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.

Maria Regina Brioschi is currently cultrice della materia (teaching and research assistant) in Gnoseology at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), where she earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy. She is an active member of Associazione Pragma and has recently edited the new Italian translation of Whitehead's Process and Reality.