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Life and Process - Towards a New Biophilosophy (Hardcover, Digital original)
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Life and Process - Towards a New Biophilosophy (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: Process Thought
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Alfred North Whitehead is arguably the most original 20th-century
philosopher of nature and metaphysics. In recent decades a number
of physicists have produced ground-breaking new theories in
fundamental physics influenced by his process philosophy. In
contrast, few biologists are even aware that Whitehead's radical
rethinking of the Cartesian assumptions implicit in 19th-century
sciences might be relevant to their enterprise. This book seeks to
fill this gap by exploring how Whitehead's process ontology might
provide a new philosophical foundation for the biosciences of the
21st century. The central premise shared by all of the volume's
authors is the idea that all living processes are irreducible
processes. Each chapter focuses on assumptions implicit in some of
the core concepts of biology - such as organism, evolution,
information, and teleology - that play crucial explanatory roles in
the biosciences, but as metaphysical concepts fall outside its
purview. The authors each identify important shortcomings implicit
in contemporary biological paradigms and show how an approach
grounded in a process-oriented metaphysics can avoid them.
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