Process Theories : Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories /
Processes constitute the world of human experience - from nature to cognition to social reality. Yet our philosophical and scientific theories of nature and experience have traditionally prioritized concepts for static objects and structures. The essays collected here call for a review of the role o...
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I: Analysis of Dynamic Categories. Aristotle's Distinction between Change and Activity. Free Process Theory: Towards a Typology of Occurrings. Ontological Categories in GOL. The Conceptualization of Processes. Overt and Hidden Processes in 20th Century Music
- II: Applications of Process-Based Theories. Process and Emergence: Normative Function and Representation. Self-Directedness: A Process Approach to Cognition. The Pattern and Process of Language in Use: A Test Case. A Process-Ontological Account of Work. Continuants and Processes in Macroscopic Chemistry. The EPR-Experiment and Free Process Theory. A Process-Based Architecture for an Artificial Conscious Being. Causal Processes, Semiosis and Consciousness.