Natural Processes Understanding Metaphysics Without Substance
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Full Title

Natural Processes Understanding Metaphysics Without Substance
Author(s)

Andrew M. Winters
Edition
ISBN

9783319675701, 9783319675695
Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

In thinking about ontology as the study of being or what fundamentally exists, we can adopt an ontology that either takes substances or processes as primary. There are, however, both commonsense and naturalistic reasons for not fully adopting a substance ontology, which indicate that we ought to suspend judgment with respect to the acceptance of a substance ontology. Doing so allows room to further explore other ontologies. In this book, Andrew M. Winters argues that there are both commonsense and naturalistic reasons for further pursuing a process ontology. Adopting a process ontology allows us to overcome many of the difficulties facing a substance ontology while also accommodating many of the phenomenon that substance ontologies were appealed to for explanation. Given these reasons, we have both commonsense and naturalistic reasons for pursuing and developing a metaphysics without substance. 

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