| Sumario: | To develop any form of realism both the realms of epistemology and ontology need to be addressed. Realism is a position that requires - at the same time - reliable epistemic access to what there is, while also presupposing that what we get to know through this access is not mediated or substantially altered by this access. That it is actually reality in itself - ontological reality - that we can get to know, not merely a mediation. This book argues that to overcome this tension between ontology and epistemology, it is necessary to establish the idea of adequate correlations between epistemologies and ontologies. The term 'correlation' in this context is used in a highly technical manner. Correlations are internal relations that have an essential temporal dimension, which means that if one relatum of the correlation changes over time the other relata change with it in a coordinated (i.e. correlated) fashion. This is to say that correlations are both essentially relational and essentially temporal such that they always change as a whole. There is no aspect of a correlation that could change in complete independence of the rest of the correlation. The specific onto-epistemic correlation spelled out in the book is the correlation between a dynamic reality (a general version of process ontology) and phenomenology. This specific correlation is taken to be the best candidate to develop a realist position, as it is adequate to come to terms with the complex, networked and dynamic reality we are living in. On this basis a 'dynamic realism' is developed. -- Proporcionado por el editor
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