TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-89488-7
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - Contemporary materialism :its ontology and epistemology /
AU  - Romero, Gustavo E.,
AU  - Pérez-Jara, Javier,
AU  - Camprubí, Lino,
VL  - volume 447
CN  - B825
N1  - Includes indexes.
ID  - 1447214
KW  - Materialism.
KW  - Ontology.
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of.
SN  - 9783030894887
SN  - 3030894886
TI  - Contemporary materialism :its ontology and epistemology /
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