Dynamic Realism
Uncovering the Reality of Becoming through Phenomenology and Process Philosophy
Published on 22. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-4744-8012-3 (ISBN)
Description
Philosophy has traditionally considered reality as a set of static objects. Tina Roeck transcends this understanding to explore the realistic potential of relational and dynamic ontology. These explorations are both complex and problematic as we attempt to reconceptualise being, truth and knowledge as processual. To navigate this thinking, Roeck takes a new phenomenological path into a realism that discloses the world as temporal and relational, without dismissing the epistemological difficulties surrounding genuine change. A fundamental challenge to outdated ways of thinking in our rapid, interconnected world, this book provides a provocative and contemporary understanding of our temporal reality.
Reviews / Votes
The ambition of this book is breathtaking: nothing less than the articulation of a new metaphysics. More astonishing is the ease with which Tina Roeck persuasively achieves this feat, drawing on resources ancient, modern and contemporary to reformulate the relation of thinking and being. Remarkable. * Craig Lundy, Nottingham Trent University *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
384 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8012-3 (9781474480123)
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Tina Roeck is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Prior to this post, she taught and researched at the University of Kassel, Germany and the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her research has focussed on process ontology, dynamic modes of thinking and ancient Greek Philosophy. She is the author of Physis als bewegte Existenz - Eine Ontologie des Konkreten (2016) and is co-editor of Perspektiven der Metaphysik (2014). Her articles and chapters have appeared in numerous scholarly publications.
Content
Introduction
Part I: Metaphysics as a relation of thinking and being
1. Terminological and methodological clarificationsa) Terminologyb) Methodology
2. A new metaphysics? Correlating ontology with epistemologya) What are correlations?b) The correlation between thinking (knowing) and concepts of being
Part II: Husserl's Phenomenology: Experience and Time
3. Phenomenological experience: to the things themselvesa) What is phenomenological experience?b) What is the actual object of phenomenological experience? The object as intendedc) Phenomenology as idealism: moving toward transcendental philosophy
4. Husserl's philosophy as correlated transcendental realisma) Husserl's re-interpretation of transcendental idealism and the a-priori correlationb) Phenomenology, phenomenalism and naive realism. Sellars and the Myth of the Givenc) Speculative realism and the critique of phenomenology as correlationism
5. Phenomenological realism: the argument from temporalitya) Time and temporality in phenomenologyb) Change and temporality in the Thing and Space lecturesc) Temporality and genetic phenomenology
Part III: Process thought
6. The nature of time: time, temporality and beinga) The nature of time: approaching the essence of time through metaphorsb) Measurable time: the metaphor of the timelinec) The experience of time: the metaphor of flowd) Ontological time: the metaphor of growth and becoming
7. Experience and temporal beinga) The method of intuition in Bergsonb) Whitehead - ontological experience as bodily feeling
Part IV: Dynamic Realism
8. What there is - the dynamic 'object' of experiencea) What is a concept of being?b) Becoming existence and temporal being
9. Being between ontology and epistemologya) The ontological dimensionb) Towards dynamic realism: engaged experience
10. Uncovering the real as physical: naturalism and materialisma) The epistemology of scientific materialism or physicalismb) Dynamic and relational forms of scientific realism
11. Moving from the world of science to the life-worlda) Phenomenological issues connected to 'life' and the resulting move to ontologyb) An Aristotelian look at 'life' between empiricism and speculationc) From the life-world to a world alived) What about nature as a characterisation of what there is?
12. From phenomenology to speculative metaphysicsa) Metaphysical consequencesb) The becoming existence of what there is
Bibliography
Part I: Metaphysics as a relation of thinking and being
1. Terminological and methodological clarificationsa) Terminologyb) Methodology
2. A new metaphysics? Correlating ontology with epistemologya) What are correlations?b) The correlation between thinking (knowing) and concepts of being
Part II: Husserl's Phenomenology: Experience and Time
3. Phenomenological experience: to the things themselvesa) What is phenomenological experience?b) What is the actual object of phenomenological experience? The object as intendedc) Phenomenology as idealism: moving toward transcendental philosophy
4. Husserl's philosophy as correlated transcendental realisma) Husserl's re-interpretation of transcendental idealism and the a-priori correlationb) Phenomenology, phenomenalism and naive realism. Sellars and the Myth of the Givenc) Speculative realism and the critique of phenomenology as correlationism
5. Phenomenological realism: the argument from temporalitya) Time and temporality in phenomenologyb) Change and temporality in the Thing and Space lecturesc) Temporality and genetic phenomenology
Part III: Process thought
6. The nature of time: time, temporality and beinga) The nature of time: approaching the essence of time through metaphorsb) Measurable time: the metaphor of the timelinec) The experience of time: the metaphor of flowd) Ontological time: the metaphor of growth and becoming
7. Experience and temporal beinga) The method of intuition in Bergsonb) Whitehead - ontological experience as bodily feeling
Part IV: Dynamic Realism
8. What there is - the dynamic 'object' of experiencea) What is a concept of being?b) Becoming existence and temporal being
9. Being between ontology and epistemologya) The ontological dimensionb) Towards dynamic realism: engaged experience
10. Uncovering the real as physical: naturalism and materialisma) The epistemology of scientific materialism or physicalismb) Dynamic and relational forms of scientific realism
11. Moving from the world of science to the life-worlda) Phenomenological issues connected to 'life' and the resulting move to ontologyb) An Aristotelian look at 'life' between empiricism and speculationc) From the life-world to a world alived) What about nature as a characterisation of what there is?
12. From phenomenology to speculative metaphysicsa) Metaphysical consequencesb) The becoming existence of what there is
Bibliography