Natural Processes

Understanding Metaphysics Without Substance

AvAndrew M. Winters

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-15
Mått:148 x 210 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:124
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319884493

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

Recensioner i media

“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)

Innehållsförteckning

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.