Gustavo E. Romero, Javier Pérez-Jara y Lino Camprubí (Eds.), CONTEMPORARY MATERIALISM: ITS ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY, Synthese, Springer, 2022.

16 Oct 2022
CONTEMPORARY MATERIALISM

              CONTEMPORARY MATERIALISM: ITS ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY

                REFERENCIA

               Gustavo E. Romero, Javier Pérez-Jara y Lino Camprubí (Eds.), Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology, Synthese (SYLI, 447), Springer, 2022. ISBN 978-3-030-89488-7. Páginas: 378.

                https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89488-7

                RESUMEN

                The first book covering the status of materialism in philosophy today. Discusses varieties of materialism and their connections to the sciences as well as their limitations. Facilitates creative dialogue between different materialist approaches as well as idealists.

                Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the term for the first time in the 17th century. But what is materialism and what can it offer today? The term is usually defined 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 defined 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 significance 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.

                (Resumen de la web editorial)

                   PALABRAS CLAVE

               Ontology, Epistemology, Materialism: systemic, Materialism: discontinuous, Materialism: inclusive, Materialism: history, Material emergence, Quantum matter, Ontology of spacetime, Biological matter, Philosophy of mathematics and logic, Ontology of software, Mind and matter.

              AUTOR

             LINO CAMPRUBÍ BUENO. Investigador “Ramón y Cajal”. Departamento de Filosofía, Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia. Facultad de Filosofía.

https://us.academia.edu/LinoCamprub%C3%AD

 

 

 

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