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Being in Flux Rein Raud

Being in Flux By Rein Raud

Being in Flux by Rein Raud


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Being in Flux: A Post-Anthropocentric Ontology of the Self by Rein Raud

Reality exists independently of human observers, but does the same apply to its structure? Realist ontologies usually assume so: according to them, the world consists of objects, these have properties and enter into relations with each other, more or less as we are accustomed to think of them. Against this view, Rein Raud develops a radical process ontology that does not credit any vantage point, any scale or speed of being, any range of cognitive faculties with the privilege to judge how the world 'really' is. In his view, what we think of as objects are recast as fields of constitutive tensions, cross-sections of processes, never in complete balance but always striving for it and always reconfiguring themselves accordingly. The human self is also understood as a fluctuating field, not limited to the mind but distributed all over the body and reaching out into its environment, with different constituents of the process constantly vying for control. The need for such a process philosophy has often been voiced, but rarely has there been an effort to develop it in a systematic and rigourous manner that leads to original accounts of identity, continuity, time, change, causality, agency and other topics. Throughout his new book, Raud engages with an unusually broad range of philosophical schools and debates, from New Materialism and Object-Oriented Ontology to both phenomenological and analytical philosophy of mind, from feminist philosophy of science to neurophilosophy and social ontology. Being in Flux will be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy and the humanities generally and to anyone interested in current debates about realism, materialism and ontology.

About Rein Raud

Rein Raud is a research professor at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University, and a Visiting Professor at the Freie Universitat Berlin.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Ontology: some of the story so far Chapter 2 An ontology of processes and fields Chapter 3 Me, myself and my brain Chapter 4 The self as an extended decision-making network Concluding remarks Notes References

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NGR9781509549511
9781509549511
150954951X
Being in Flux: A Post-Anthropocentric Ontology of the Self by Rein Raud
New
Paperback
Polity Press
20210903
256
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