Contemporary materialism : its ontology and epistemology / Gustavo E. Romero, Javier Pérez-Jara, Lino Camprubí, editors.
Romero, Gustavo E., editor.; Pérez-Jara, Javier, editor.; Camprubí, Lino, 1981- editor.
2022
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Title Contemporary materialism : its ontology and epistemology / Gustavo E. Romero, Javier Pérez-Jara, Lino Camprubí, editors.
ISBN 9783030894887 (electronic bk.)
3030894886 (electronic bk.)
9783030894870
3030894878
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89488-7
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-89488-7 doi
Call Number B825
Dewey Decimal Classification 146/.3
Summary 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 oer today? The term is usually dened 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 dened 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 signicance 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 todays 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.
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Added Author Romero, Gustavo E., editor.
Pérez-Jara, Javier, editor.
Camprubí, Lino, 1981- editor.
Series Synthese library ; v. 447.
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Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. What is Materialism? History and Concepts (Javier Perez-Jara, Gustavo E. Romero, and Lino Camprubi)
2. Systemic Materialism (Gustavo E. Romero)
3. Discontinuous Materialism (Javier Perez-Jara)
4. Quantum Matter (Gustavo E. Romero)
5. Spacetime is material (Luciano Combi)
6. Systemic Materialism in Biology (Rafael Gonzalez del Solar)
7. Mind and Matter (Inigo Ongay de Felipe)
8. Materialism and the History of Science (Lino Camprubi)
9. Materialism, Logic, and Mathematics (Carlos M. Madrid Casado)
10. The Material Nature of Software (Miguel A. Quintanilla Fisac)
11. Mathematics Refer to Material Entities / Mathematics do not Refer to Material Entities (Gustavo E. Romero and Carlos M. Madrid Casado)
12. Emergent Materialism Implies Continuism / Emergent Materialism Does Not Imply Continuism (Inigo Ongay and Javier Perez-Jara)
13. Materialism is False / Materialism is Not False (Graham Harman and Javier Perez-Jara)
Name Index
Subject Index.

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