Closure: A Story of Everything

Closure: A Story of Everything is a philosophical description of the world put forward by Hilary Lawson. It is an attempt to provide an account that overcomes the problems of self-reference inherent in other philosophical systems. The theory of closure provides a new vocabulary with which to do this. In so doing it manages to provide a way of holding the world without need for a recourse to truth.
The resulting framework offers new approaches to the central questions of contemporary philosophy—the character of language and meaning, of the individual and consciousness, of truth and reality. It has consequences for the understanding of the sciences and also accounts for the need and desire for both art and religion. It provides a new description of the organisation of society. The theory of "closure" is self-referential with the consequence that the theory of closure does not offer final answers but a temporary resting place.
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The book has been controversial. Its followers have heralded it as significant step forward.
Stephen Mulhall in the Times Literary Supplement, argued that its critique of contemporary philosophy is flawed and the new vocabulary it proposes unnecessary.

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