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Everything Flows - Towards a Processual
Philosophy of Biology
No longer think in terms of things, objects, statism. Nope. Everything and everyone are in fluxx, flow, and states of dynamism. Not Plato. Nor Aristotle. But Whitehead, Whitehead, Whitehead.
The world of the large is made up of the world of the small constantly and forever in motion with one another. Thus Whitehead's descriptive term speaking to the metaphysical cosmology of the "Philosophy of Organism" where everything is connected to everything and all are in continual momentum of flow and change with the other.
R.E. Slater
June 8, 2021
In biological terms, we may now think of biology through Whitehead regarding the flow of biology from the world of the small to the world of the large. From neurons and quantum strings to fleshly bodies and biotic societies. Everything and everyone in fluxx and flow together with the other for good or for ill, moving steadily forward in space and time towards healing or harm.
R.E. Slater
June 8, 2021
This collection of essays explores the metaphysical thesis that the living world is not made up of substantial particles or things, as has often been assumed, but is rather constituted by processes. The biological domain is organised as an interdependent hierarchy of processes, which are stabilised and actively maintained at different timescales. Even entities that intuitively appear to be paradigms of things, such as organisms, are actually better understood as processes. Unlike previous attempts to articulate processual views of biology, which have tended to use Alfred North Whitehead’s panpsychist metaphysics as a foundation, this book takes a [Whiteheadian] naturalistic approach to metaphysics. It submits that the main motivations for replacing an ontology of substances with one of processes are to be found in the empirical findings of science.
Biology provides compelling reasons for thinking that the living realm is fundamentally dynamic, and that the existence of things is always conditional on the existence of processes. The phenomenon of life cries out for theories that prioritise processes over things, and it suggests that the central explanandum of biology is not change but rather stability, or more precisely, stability attained through constant change. This edited volume brings together philosophers of science and metaphysicians interested in exploring the consequences of a processual philosophy of biology. The contributors draw on an extremely wide range of biological case studies, and employ a process perspective to cast new light on a number of traditional philosophical problems, such as identity, persistence, and individuality.
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