University of Surrey
Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy
PhD, 1975
Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
  •  597
    Explaining Free Will
    C. M. Elstob. Printed and distributed by Amazon. 2018.
    A new approach using independence indeterminism, a novel naturalistic metaphysics for an open creative universe. The problem of free will - what exactly it is, whether it is required for us to be morally responsible for our actions, and whether any natural being can possibly possess it - has remained unresolved for over 2000 years. Now, starting from the very widely held belief that most change takes place in a way that is independent of how most other change is taking place, this book builds an…Read more
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    Creational Change and the Management of Human Systems
    with C. M. Elstob
    Systems Research and Information Science 4 (3): 165-176. 1991.
    Management involves change. The aim of this paper is to introduce a threefold classification of change with the purpose of making clear how the third type, creational change, is distinctive compared to the other two types. Four types of management situation are introduced, based on the type of change involved in the managed domain and in the management system. The role of creational change in management is discussed and a number of guidelines or suggestions relevant to this sort of management a…Read more