Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology / Synthese Library Bd.447 (PDF)
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Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the term for the ¿rst time in the 17th century. But what is materialism and what can it öer today? The term is usually de¿ned as the worldview according to which everything real is material. Nevertheless, there is no philosophical consensus about whether the meaning of matter can be enlarged beyond the physical. As a consequence, materialism is often de¿ned in stark exclusive and reductionist terms: whatever exists is either physical or ontologically reducible to it. This conception, if consistent, mutilates reality, excluding the ontological signi¿cance of political, economic, sociocultural, anthropological and psychological realities. Starting from a new history of materialism, the present book focuses on the central ontological and epistemological debates aroused by today's leading materialist approaches, including some little known to an anglophone readership. The key concepts of matter, system, emergence, space and time, life, mind, and software are checked over and updated. Controversial issues such as the nature of mathematics and the place of reductionism are also discussed from different materialist approaches. As a result, materialism emerges as a powerful, indispensable scientifically-supported worldview with a surprising wealth of nuances and possibilities.
Javier Pérez-Jara is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Sociology at Beijing Foreign Studies University and a Faculty Fellow at Yale University's Center for Cultural Sociology. He has held visiting teaching and research positions across the world, including the University of Cambridge, Stanford University, Yale University, Kyoto University, Kyoto Sangyo University, the University of Seville, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Taiwanese Fu Jen Catholic University, and Minzu University of China. He is the author of many publications on philosophy and social theory, and his current teaching and research explore the theoretical and practical bridges between scienti¿c interdisciplinarity and philosophy.
Lino Camprubí is Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Department of Philosophy in the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. He obtained his PhD in History at UCLA and has been a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, as well as a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime (The MIT Press, 2014) and co-editor of Technology and Globalisation:
- 2022, 1st ed. 2022, 378 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Gustavo E. Romero, Javier Pérez-Jara, Lino Camprubí
- Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
- ISBN-10: 3030894886
- ISBN-13: 9783030894887
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2022
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