Ebook: Process Theories: Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories

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.

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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.

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Aristotle’s Distinction between Change and Activity....Pages 3-22
Free Process Theory: Towards a Typology of Occurrings....Pages 23-55
Ontological Categories in GOL....Pages 57-76
The Conceptualization of Processes....Pages 77-96
Overt and Hidden Processes in 20th Century Music....Pages 97-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Process and Emergence: Normative Function and Representation....Pages 121-155
Self-Directedness: A Process Approach to Cognition....Pages 157-175
The Pattern and Process of Language in Use: A Test Case....Pages 177-218
A Process-Ontological Account of Work....Pages 219-235
Continuants and Processes in Macroscopic Chemistry....Pages 237-265
The EPR-Experiment and Free Process Theory....Pages 267-283
A Process-Based Architecture for an Artificial Conscious Being....Pages 285-312
Causal Processes, Semiosis, and Consciousness....Pages 313-336

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Aristotle’s Distinction between Change and Activity....Pages 3-22
Free Process Theory: Towards a Typology of Occurrings....Pages 23-55
Ontological Categories in GOL....Pages 57-76
The Conceptualization of Processes....Pages 77-96
Overt and Hidden Processes in 20th Century Music....Pages 97-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Process and Emergence: Normative Function and Representation....Pages 121-155
Self-Directedness: A Process Approach to Cognition....Pages 157-175
The Pattern and Process of Language in Use: A Test Case....Pages 177-218
A Process-Ontological Account of Work....Pages 219-235
Continuants and Processes in Macroscopic Chemistry....Pages 237-265
The EPR-Experiment and Free Process Theory....Pages 267-283
A Process-Based Architecture for an Artificial Conscious Being....Pages 285-312
Causal Processes, Semiosis, and Consciousness....Pages 313-336
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