Creative Intelligence

Creative Intelligence is a wide-ranging philosophical collaboration that reimagines intelligence as a practical, inventive power at the center of human life. Bringing together major early twentieth-century thinkers, the volume moves from logic and mathematics to psychology, ethics, economics, art, and religion, united by a shared conviction that ideas should help shape the future, not merely describe the past. At its core is a sustained challenge to empiricism, rationalism, and other systems that treat experience as a heap of isolated sensations or reduce mind to mechanism. Drawing on biology, neurology, and everyday action, the essays present experience as active, adaptive, and forward-looking: instinct, habit, attention, and consciousness all work to anticipate what comes next and turn uncertainty into purposeful response. The book also criticizes neo-realism, formal logic, interactionism, and rigid dualisms for flattening lived reality into abstractions. Instead, it argues that reasoning, analogy, obligation, and foresight arise from concrete interests and practical engagement, making philosophy an experimental guide for living. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.