Dynamic Realism

Tina Röck is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Prior to this post, she taught and researched at the University of Kassel, Germany and the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her research has focussed on process ontology, dynamic modes of thinking and ancient Greek Philosophy. She is the author of Physis als bewegte Existenz – Eine Ontologie des Konkreten (2016) and is co-editor of Perspektiven der Metaphysik (2014). Her articles and chapters have appeared in numerous scholarly publications.

The ambition of this book is breathtaking: nothing less than the articulation of a new metaphysics. More astonishing is the ease with which Tina Röck persuasively achieves this feat, drawing on resources ancient, modern and contemporary to reformulate the relation of thinking and being. Remarkable.

• IntroductionPart I: Metaphysics as a relation of thinking and being1. Terminological and methodological clarificationsa) Terminologyb) Methodology2. A new metaphysics? Correlating ontology with epistemologya) What are correlations?b) The correlation between thinking (knowing) and concepts of beingPart II: Husserl’s Phenomenology: Experience and Time3. Phenomenological experience: to the things themselvesa) What is phenomenological experience?b) What is the actual object of phenomenological experience? The object as intendedc) Phenomenology as idealism: moving toward transcendental philosophy4. Husserl’s philosophy as correlated transcendental realisma) Husserl’s re-interpretation of transcendental idealism and the a-priori correlationb) Phenomenology, phenomenalism and naive realism. Sellars and the Myth of the Givenc) Speculative realism and the critique of phenomenology as correlationism5. Phenomenological realism: the argument from temporalitya) Time and temporality in phenomenologyb) Change and temporality in the Thing and Space lecturesc) Temporality and genetic phenomenologyPart III: Process thought 6. The nature of time: time, temporality and beinga) The nature of time: approaching the essence of time through metaphorsb) Measurable time: the metaphor of the timelinec) The experience of time: the metaphor of flowd) Ontological time: the metaphor of growth and becoming7. Experience and temporal beinga) The method of intuition in Bergsonb) Whitehead – ontological experience as bodily feelingPart IV: Dynamic Realism8. What there is – the dynamic ‘object’ of experiencea) What is a concept of being?b) Becoming existence and temporal being9. Being between ontology and epistemologya) The ontological dimensionb) Towards dynamic realism: engaged experience10. Uncovering the real as physical: naturalism and materialisma) The epistemology of scientific materialism or physicalismb) Dynamic and relational forms of scientific realism11. Moving from the world of science to the life-worlda) Phenomenological issues connected to ‘life’ and the resulting move to ontologyb) An Aristotelian look at ‘life’ between empiricism and speculationc) From the life-world to a world alived) What about nature as a characterisation of what there is?12. From phenomenology to speculative metaphysicsa) Metaphysical consequencesb) The becoming existence of what there isBibliography