Produktbild: Natural Processes

Natural Processes

Lieferzeit: Lieferbar innerhalb 14 Tagen

58,84 €

inkl. 7 % MwSt. zzgl. Versandkosten

Understanding Metaphysics Without Substance

ISBN: 3319884492
ISBN 13: 9783319884493
Autor: Winters, Andrew M
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xvii, 124 S., 3 s/w Illustr., 124 p. 3 illus.
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2018
Auflage: 1/2017
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: Kartoniert

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.

Artikelnummer: 6778256 Kategorie:

Beschreibung

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

Autorenporträt

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

Herstellerkennzeichnung:


Springer Verlag GmbH
Tiergartenstr. 17
69121 Heidelberg
DE

E-Mail: juergen.hartmann@springer.com

Das könnte Ihnen auch gefallen …