Process Theories: Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories

ISBN-13: 9781402017513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str.

Johanna Seibt

Opis

Processes constitute the world of human experience - from nature to cognition to social reality. The essays collected here call for a review of the role of dynamic categories in the language of theories. They present descriptive tools for the modelling of dynamic domains.

Spis treści

Introduction. I: Analysis of Dynamic Categories. Aristotle's Distinction between Change and Activity; M.L. Gill. Free Process Theory: Towards a Typology of Occurrings; J. Seibt. Ontological Categories in GOL; B. Heller, H. Herre. The Conceptualization of Processes; S. Østergaard. Overt and Hidden Processes in 20th Century Music; E. Christensen. II: Applications of Process-Based Theories. Process and Emergence: Normative Function and Representation; M.H. Bickhard. Self-Directedness: A Process Approach to Cognition; W. Christensen. The Pattern and Process of Language in Use: A Test Case; M. Fortescue. A Process-Ontological Account of Work; B. Parkan. Continuants and Processes in Macroscopic Chemistry; P. Needham. The EPR-Experiment and Free Process Theory; W. Christiaens. A Process-Based Architecture for an Artificial Conscious Being; R. Manzotti. Causal Processes, Semiosis and Consciousness; C. Emmeche.