Timothy E. Eastman is an independent researcher.

Timothy Eastman, eminent space scientist associated for many years with NASA and an important philosopher of science, has here produced a work of enormous significance. Cutting through a "Gordian Knot" of philosophical and scientific problems ranging widely from the mind-body issue, the nature of consciousness, freedom of the will, and the reality of temporal process, to the nature of quantum theory and the quantum measurement problem (to name a few), Eastman shows how an emphasis on physical context and employment of what he calls the relational logoi framework resolves such problems in a parsimonious and elegant way. The book displays astounding erudition producing a "consilience" of streams of evidence across numerous scientific and philosophical disciplines. Process philosophers and scholars working in the American pragmatist tradition will be especially drawn to this project as it resonates profoundly with central ideas found in Whitehead, Hartshorne, and Peirce.

• Chapter 1. QuestChapter 2. Relations—LogoiChapter 3. Gordian Knot to Logoi FrameworkChapter 4. Causation, Emergence and Complex SystemsChapter 5. Information and SemioticsChapter 6. Complex WholeChapter 7. Peirce’s Triads and Whitehead’s ProcessChapter 8. Contextuality—from Experience to Meaning

Timothy E. Eastman is an independent researcher.

Timothy Eastman, eminent space scientist associated for many years with NASA and an important philosopher of science, has here produced a work of enormous significance. Cutting through a "Gordian Knot" of philosophical and scientific problems ranging widely from the mind-body issue, the nature of consciousness, freedom of the will, and the reality of temporal process, to the nature of quantum theory and the quantum measurement problem (to name a few), Eastman shows how an emphasis on physical context and employment of what he calls the relational logoi framework resolves such problems in a parsimonious and elegant way. The book displays astounding erudition producing a "consilience" of streams of evidence across numerous scientific and philosophical disciplines. Process philosophers and scholars working in the American pragmatist tradition will be especially drawn to this project as it resonates profoundly with central ideas found in Whitehead, Hartshorne, and Peirce.

• Chapter 1. QuestChapter 2. Relations—LogoiChapter 3. Gordian Knot to Logoi FrameworkChapter 4. Causation, Emergence and Complex SystemsChapter 5. Information and SemioticsChapter 6. Complex WholeChapter 7. Peirce’s Triads and Whitehead’s ProcessChapter 8. Contextuality—from Experience to Meaning

Timothy E. Eastman is an independent researcher.

Timothy Eastman, eminent space scientist associated for many years with NASA and an important philosopher of science, has here produced a work of enormous significance. Cutting through a "Gordian Knot" of philosophical and scientific problems ranging widely from the mind-body issue, the nature of consciousness, freedom of the will, and the reality of temporal process, to the nature of quantum theory and the quantum measurement problem (to name a few), Eastman shows how an emphasis on physical context and employment of what he calls the relational logoi framework resolves such problems in a parsimonious and elegant way. The book displays astounding erudition producing a "consilience" of streams of evidence across numerous scientific and philosophical disciplines. Process philosophers and scholars working in the American pragmatist tradition will be especially drawn to this project as it resonates profoundly with central ideas found in Whitehead, Hartshorne, and Peirce.

• Chapter 1. QuestChapter 2. Relations—LogoiChapter 3. Gordian Knot to Logoi FrameworkChapter 4. Causation, Emergence and Complex SystemsChapter 5. Information and SemioticsChapter 6. Complex WholeChapter 7. Peirce’s Triads and Whitehead’s ProcessChapter 8. Contextuality—from Experience to Meaning