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Process Theories

Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories

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Editors:
  1. Johanna Seibt

    1. Philosophy Department, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Analysis of Dynamic Categories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Aristotle’s Distinction between Change and Activity

      • Mary Louise Gill
      Pages 3-22

    3. Free Process Theory: Towards a Typology of Occurrings

      • Johanna Seibt
      Pages 23-55

    4. Ontological Categories in GOL

      • Barbara Heller, Heinrich Herre
      Pages 57-76

    5. The Conceptualization of Processes

      • Svend Østergaard
      Pages 77-96

    6. Overt and Hidden Processes in 20th Century Music

      • Erik Christensen
      Pages 97-117

  3. Applications of Process-Based Theories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Process and Emergence: Normative Function and Representation

      • Mark H. Bickhard
      Pages 121-155

    3. Self-Directedness: A Process Approach to Cognition

      • Wayne Christensen
      Pages 157-175

    4. The Pattern and Process of Language in Use: A Test Case

      • Michael Fortescue
      Pages 177-218

    5. A Process-Ontological Account of Work

      • Baris Parkan
      Pages 219-235

    6. Continuants and Processes in Macroscopic Chemistry

      • Paul Needham
      Pages 237-265

    7. The EPR-Experiment and Free Process Theory

      • Wim Christiaens
      Pages 267-283

    8. A Process-Based Architecture for an Artificial Conscious Being

      • Riccardo Manzotti
      Pages 285-312

    9. Causal Processes, Semiosis, and Consciousness

      • Claus Emmeche
      Pages 313-336
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Philosophy Department, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

    Johanna Seibt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Process Theories

  • Book Subtitle: Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories

  • Editors: Johanna Seibt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1044-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1751-3Published: 31 January 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1044-3Published: 27 June 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 336

  • Additional Information: Reprinted from AXIOMATHES, 14:1-2

  • Topics: Economics, general, Ontology, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Semantics

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