Natural Processes: Understanding Metaphysics Without Substance - Hardcover

Winters, Andrew M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319675699 ISBN 13: 9783319675695

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

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

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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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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3319675699
• ISBN 13: 9783319675695
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 141
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