Neo-Aristotelian perspectives on contemporary science

Neo-Aristotelian perspectives on contemporary science

"The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with the possibility of emergence, as well as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Simpson, William M.R (Editor), Koons, Robert C., editor (editor), Simpson, William M. R., editor, Teh, Nicholas J., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Taylor & Francis 2018
2017.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Routledge studies in the philosophy of science ; 17.
Materias:
Science > Philosophy.
Alexander Pruss
Alexander R. Pruss
Anna Marmodoro
Aristotelian metaphysics
actuality
biological unity
biology
Christopher Austin
Christopher J. Austin
chemistry
Daniel De Haan
Daniel D. De Haan
David Oderberg
David S. Oderberg
dispositional eliminativism
Edward Feser
emergentism
entangled objects
Functionalist theory of mental states
faculties
Humean dispositionalism
history of science
hylomorphism
Janice Chik Breidenbach
John Haldane
mental-physical distinction
Nancy Cartwright
Nicholas J. Teh
Nicholas Teh
natural sciences
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433690806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • chapter Introduction: Reflections on Contemporary Science and the New Aristotelianism / ROBERT C. KOONS, WILLIAM M. R. SIMPSON, AND NICHOLAS J. TEH
  • part Part 1 The Philosophy of Physics
  • chapter 1 Dodging the Fundamentalist Threat / XAVI LANAO
  • chapter 2 Actuality, Potentiality, and Relativity’s Block Universe / EDWARD FESER
  • chapter 3 The Many Worlds Interpretation of QM: A Hylomorphic Critique and Alternative / ROBERT C. KOONS
  • chapter 4 A Traveling Forms Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / ALEXANder R. PRUSS
  • chapter 5 Half- Baked Humeanism / WILLIAM M. R. SIMPSON
  • chapter 6 Disentangling Nature’s Joints / TUOMAS E. TAHKO
  • part Part 2 The Philosophy of the Life Sciences
  • chapter 7 Structural Powers and the Homeodynamic Unity of Organisms / CHRISTOPHER J. AUSTIN
  • chapter 8 A Biologically Informed Hylomorphism / CHRISTOPHER J. AUSTIN
  • chapter 9 The Great Unifier: Form and the Unity of the Organism / DAVID S. OderBERG
  • chapter 10 Action, Animacy, and Substance Causation / JANICE CHIK BREIDENBACH
  • chapter 11 Psychology Without a Mental- Physical Dichotomy / WILLIAM JAWORSKI
  • chapter 12 Hylomorphism and the New Mechanist Philosophy in Biology, Neuroscience, and Psychology / DANIEL D. DE HAAN.

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