Robert Wood's aim in Being and Cosmos is to reestablish a
speculative view of the cosmos that goes back to the ancient Greeks
and that corresponds to the holism of contemporary physics. There
are two sets of problems in contemporary thought that militate
against any such attempt. Most widespread is scientific
reductionism in biology and neuroscience that explains awareness in
terms of the mechanisms that underlie it. The second is the
widespread attack in philosophy itself on speculative holism by
deconstruction and anti-foundationalism. In Being and Cosmos, the
tack against both is to make explicit the character of the mind
that sees and thinks, that actively takes up commitment to the
truth available in the disciplines involved. The basic ground of
this position rests upon the functioning of the notion of Being
that opens up the question of the character of the Whole and the
human being's place in it. Thus position the treatment of the
notion of Being as foundation and as orientation toward the Whole
between the attack on reductionism and on deconstruction and
anti-foundationalism. Wood concludes with a multidimensional sketch
of an evolutionary view of the cosmos whose initial phases contain
the potentialities for life, sensibility, and intellect as cosmic
telos. The holism of contemporary physics has to be reconfigured in
terms of this observation. Both reductionists and dualists should
know that matter itself has to be re-minded and that mind itself
matters.
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