Process Ontology
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Translanguaging theories emphasize a fluid, dynamic view of language and differ from code-switching/mixing theories by de-centring the analytic focus from the language(s) being used in the interaction to the speakers who are making... more
(From "French Ecocriticism", Eds. Finch-Race & Posthumus, 2017) Over a ten-year period, the experimental filmmaker Jean-Claude Rousseau visited the Fontaine de Vaucluse, a natural spring in southern France. The result of Rous-seau's... more
An increasing number of philosophers of biology are currently advocating process ontology as an ontological framework able to capture the profound dynamicity of biological reality. Living beings are claimed to be processes rather than... more
This chapter is from my book "Kulturelle Komplexität: Gilles Deleuze und die Kulturtheorie der American Studies" (transcript, 2015). Its aim is to delineate and discuss Deleuze's temporal understanding of the constitution of subjectivity,... more
The creation of a process ontology for biology is one of the most ambitious and important projects of current philosophy of biology. Process ontology is usually seen as opposing mechanistic ontology which currently dominates biology.... more
I argue in this paper for a critical social ontology, or an approach to theorizing social reality and social institutions that is more than descriptive of social reality, but is also able to provide practical reasoning with an ontological... more
A critique of ontology which introduces seepage, the process of properties revealing themselves from the matrix forms of an object. What follows is the observation that these properties have their own system of relations, placed in the... more
In recent years, an increasing number of theoretical biologists and philosophers of biology have been opposing reductionist research agendas by appealing to the concept of biological autonomy which draws on the older concept of... more
In this introduction of the volume "Life and Process. Towards a New Biophilosophy," first I will explain why I believe it is necessary to differentiate between biophilosophy and the philosophy of biology. Second, I will review some of the... more
Though the realm of biology has long been under the philosophical rule of the mechanistic magisterium, recent years have seen a surprisingly steady rise in the usurping prowess of process ontology. According to its proponents, theoretical... more
According to the standard view of particularity, an entity is a particular just in case it necessarily has a unique spatial location at any time of its existence. That the basic entities of the world we speak about in common sense and... more
According to dispositional realism, or dispositionalism, the entities inhabiting our world possess irreducibly dispositional properties - often called 'powers' - by means of which they are sources of change. Dispositionalism has become... more
Though disagreeing on what it is that causes actions – events or agents, event causal and agent causal theories of action causation do agree on which ontological category actions belong to: actions are commonly taken to be events. This... more
Open Access Download: http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198779636.pdf This collection of essays explores the metaphysical thesis that the living world is not made up of substantial particles or things, as has... more
Stephen Mumford has argued that dispositionalists ought to be endurantists because perdurantism, by breaking down persisting objects in sequences of static discrete existents, is at odds with a powers metaphysics. This has been contested... more
(To appear in: Jim O'Shea (ed.) , Sellars and His Legacy, Oxford University Press, 2015)
This book argues that Sellars’ theory of intentionality can be understood as an advancement of a transcendental philosophical approach. It shows how Sellars develops his theory of intentionality through his engagement with the theoretical... more
Are we free in wanting what we want to do? Could we ever have acted differently from how we actually acted? A growing number of scholars and especially philosophers believe the answer to these questions is No. Over the past century,... more
Contrary to the frequent assumption of university science teachers that learning is the storage of structural models, this paper argues that learning consists rather in the practical acquisition of contextualised skills. Learning contents... more
According to dispositional realism, or dispositionalism, the entities inhabiting our world possess irreducibly dispositional properties – often called ‘powers’ – by means of which they are sources of change. Dispositionalism has become... more
University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) Final Thesis
This essay elaborates how an imbalanced reciprocity between inhabitants of places of relative safety and places of greater precarity results from pursuing security on the basis of a reactive fear of vulnerability. It analyzes a range of... more
Leibniz und Whitehead können als diejenigen Denker genannt werden, die in der abendländischen Ideen-Geschichte weitestgehend die Überzeugung vertraten und beeindruckend vertieften, die belebten und unbelebten Teile der Welt würden aus... more
Philosophical discussion about the reality of sensory perceptions has been hijacked by two tendencies. First, talk about perception has been largely centered on vision. Second, the realism question is traditionally approached by attaching... more
This paper aims to motivate a new beginning in metaphysical thinking about persistence by drawing attention to the disappearance of change in current accounts of persistence. I defend the claim that the debate is stuck in a dilemma which... more
In this paper, we present two case studies of first-year, secondary science teachers who participated in an urban teacher residency. We adopt a situated analysis approach, framed by rhizomatics, a non-linear theory of social activity, to... more
What are persons and how do they exist? The predominant answer to this question in Western metaphysics is that persons, human and others, are, and exist as, substances, i.e., ontologically independent, well-demarcated things defined by an... more
Animalism, by holding that human persons, ontologically, are organisms with purely biological identity conditions, fails to capture 'what matters' about personal identity-the ethical dimensions, which appear to be linked to psychology.... more
This chapter will work with deleuzeguattarian theories, posthuman and new materialisms to examine how subjectivity becomes an entangled open-ended set of relations in ‘process ontology’ (Braidotti, 2006: 199). Gathering empirical... more
The concept of levels of organization, despite its widespread scientific currency, has recently been criticized by a number of philosophers of science. This paper diagnoses the main source of problems facing theories of levels. On this... more
RESUMO: No final da década de 1950, Merleau-Ponty desloca seu foco de investigação da fenomenologia à ontologia. Tal transição envolve a articulação de seus estudos prévios acerca da percepção e da corporeidade com os desdobramentos... more
This article reconstructs the pragmatist approach to social philosophy. It focuses on George Herbert Mead's and John Dewey's ideas in social ontology, philosophy of social science and social theory as well as on Dewey's later more... more
In organizational theories inspired by process ontologies of Spinoza, Bergson, or Deleuze, an organization only seems to be the effect of ontological forces and therefore exist only retroacti vely and derivatively. Simply put, process... more
Unlike what is the case for physical entities and other types of continuants, few process ontologies exist. This is not only because processes received less attention in the research community, but also because classifying them is... more
How is it possible that we stay the same over time even though we continuously change? Looking at the analytic debate on personal identity, we will find, very generally, three types of answers: 1) Staying the same while changing is... more
Human persons exist longer than a single moment in time; they persist through time. However, so far it has not been possible to make this natural and widespread assumption metaphysically comprehensible. The philosophical debate on... more
In contemporary ontology we can found two trends that could help us to understand the mystery of Eucharist: the so called “relational ontology” (RO) and the “gunk ontology” , which I have tried to develop as a Gunk Infinitive Ontology... more
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What are persons and how do they exist? The predominant answer to this question given by Western metaphysics is that persons, human and others, are and exist as substances, i.e., as some sort of discrete particular whose identity is... more