04145oam 22005295 450 991040999510332120230822234728.03-030-43048-09783030430481(electronic bk.)3030430480(electronic bk.)10.1007/978-3-030-43048-1(CKB)4100000011273784(MiAaPQ)EBC6195945(OCoLC)1154519620(DE-He213)978-3-030-43048-1(EXLCZ)99410000001127378420200511h20202020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierProcess metaphysics and mutative life sketches of lived time /Wahida KhandkerCham :Palgrave Macmillan,[2020]©20201 online resource (xiii, 193 pages)Palgrave perspectives on process philosophy,2524-47283-030-43047-2 Print version: Khandker, Wahida Process Metaphysics and Mutative Life : Sketches of Lived Time Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2020 9783030430474 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Incipience -- 1.1 Process and biology -- 1.2 Questions of scale -- 1.3 Methodologies -- 1.4 Parts and wholes -- 2. Transmutation -- 2.1 Mutability as ontology -- 2.2 Darwin and transmutation -- 2.3 Contemporary approaches to biodiversity -- 3. Symbiosis -- 3.1 Symbiogenesis -- 3.2 Gaia -- 4. Metamorphosis -- 4.1 Metamorphoses -- 4.2 Spiral and serpentine lines -- 4.3 Drawing lived time -- 5. Reminiscence -- 5.1 Physical time -- 5.2 Metaphysical time -- 5.3 The significance of lived time -- 5.4 Multi-dimensional thinking -- 6. Plasticity -- 6.1 The zero fallacy -- 6.2 Decision and behaviour -- 6.3 Stochasticity -- 6.4 Psychicalism and the scology of mind -- 7. Extinction -- 7.1 Thylacinus cynocephalus -- 7.2 Reverberations. .This book provides a survey of key process-philosophical approaches that, in conversation with selected concepts across the biological and physical sciences, help us to think about living processes, or ‘lived time,’ at different scales of functioning. The first part is written from an opening perspective on the question of the differing scales of analysis provided by Alfred North Whitehead. In particular, his interest in questions arising from the quantum mechanical reconciliation with classical mechanics informs the first two chapters that address problematic categorizations of life as variously ‘despotic,’ ‘invasive,’ or as primitive (in the radically more-than-human case of micro-organisms), whose potential recategorization relies on our willingness to acknowledge changes in value depending on the scale at which we view them. The second part of the book concerns methodologies, in the light of works by Henri Bergson, whose intertwining concerns with epistemology and ontology in his theories of mind and life serve as a model for a process philosophy of biology. The chapters focus on techniques used across philosophy and the sciences to visualize processes that are otherwise unavailable to us due to the limitations of our perceptual faculties, no matter how sophisticated the tools for analysis, from microscopes to telescopes, have become. This book concludes with a consideration of the relations between parts and wholes in process, panpsychist, and ecological terms. It revisits the question of ecological balance and the place of human activities in relation to it, with reference to works of Charles Hartshorne and William James.Palgrave perspectives on process philosophy.MetaphysicsPhilosophy of mindMetaphysics.Philosophy of mind.110100Khandker Wahidaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut871657MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910409995103321Process metaphysics and mutative life1945712UNINA