Process Theories: Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories

Process Theories: Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories
ISBN-10
1402017510
ISBN-13
9781402017513
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Author
Johanna Seibt

Description

Processes constitute the world of human experience - from nature to cognition to social reality. Yet our philosophical and scientific theories of nature and experience have traditionally prioritized concepts for static objects and structures. The essays collected here call for a review of the role of dynamic categories in the language of theories. They present old and new descriptive tools for the modelling of dynamic domains, and argue for the merits of process-based explanations in ontology, cognitive science, semiotics, linguistics, philosophy of mind, robotics, theoretical biology, music theory, and philosophy of chemistry and physics. The collection is of interest to professional researchers in any of these fields; it establishes - for the very first time - crossdisciplinary contact among recent process-based research movements and might witness a conceptual paradigm shift in the making.

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