E-Book, Englisch, 124 Seiten
Reihe: Progress in Mathematics
Winters Natural Processes
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-67570-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Understanding Metaphysics Without Substance
E-Book, Englisch, 124 Seiten
Reihe: Progress in Mathematics
ISBN: 978-3-319-67570-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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.
Andrew M. Winters teaches philosophy at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, USA.
