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Natural Processes: Understanding Metaphysics Without Substance

Autor Andrew M. Winters
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 sep 2017
In thinking about ontology as the study of being or what fundamentally exists, we can adopt an ontology that either takes substances or processes as primary. There are, however, both commonsense and naturalistic reasons for not fully adopting a substance ontology, which indicate that we ought to suspend judgment with respect to the acceptance of a substance ontology. Doing so allows room to further explore other ontologies. In this book, Andrew M. Winters argues that there are both commonsense and naturalistic reasons for further pursuing a process ontology. Adopting a process ontology allows us to overcome many of the difficulties facing a substance ontology while also accommodating many of the phenomenon that substance ontologies were appealed to for explanation. Given these reasons, we have both commonsense and naturalistic reasons for pursuing and developing a metaphysics without substance. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319675695
ISBN-10: 3319675699
Pagini: 124
Ilustrații: XVII, 124 p. 3 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Ontological Frameworks.- 2. A Substance Metaphysics Primer.- 3. Commonsense Problems with Substance.- 4. Naturalistic Problems with Substance.- 5. Attenuated Methodological Naturalism.- 6. Metaphysics Without Substance.- 7. Conclusion: The Direction of Process Metaphysics. 
 


Recenzii

“Winters (Slippery Rock Univ.) argues that process metaphysics, a competitor to substance metaphysics largely marginalized in mainstream analytic philosophy, deserves more attention as an alternative framework for approaching natural explanation. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (D. A. Forbes, Choice, Vol. 55 (9), May, 2018)

Notă biografică

Andrew M. Winters teaches philosophy at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

In thinking about ontology as the study of being or what fundamentally exists, we can adopt an ontology that either takes substances or processes as primary. There are, however, both commonsense and naturalistic reasons for not fully adopting a substance ontology, which indicate that we ought to suspend judgment with respect to the acceptance of a substance ontology. Doing so allows room to further explore other ontologies. In this book, Andrew M. Winters argues that there are both commonsense and naturalistic reasons for further pursuing a process ontology. Adopting a process ontology allows us to overcome many of the difficulties facing a substance ontology while also accommodating many of the phenomenon that substance ontologies were appealed to for explanation. Given these reasons, we have both commonsense and naturalistic reasons for pursuing and developing a metaphysics without substance. 

Caracteristici

Serves as the foundation for understanding how a metaphysics that takes processes as primary may be preferable to the traditional substance ontologies Situates discussion in the analytical tradition Argues for a historical, conceptual, and naturalistic reasoning for pursuing process metaphysics Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras