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"From biology to economics to information theory, the theme of interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because the language of interdependence has become so commonplac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sharma, Kriti
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Biology > Philosophy.
Autonomy (Philosophy)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction - Taking Interdependence Seriously
  • A brief sketch of what's to come
  • Chapter 1 - It Depends: Existence as Contingent
  • Small worlds
  • Introducing key concepts: reality, existence, and contingency
  • Features of contingentism
  • What contingentism is not
  • Signal transduction and the book's organization
  • Encouragement to stick with a challenging topic
  • Chapter 2 - What Do Objects Depend On?: Physical Substance, Matter, and the External World
  • Assumption of the intrinsic boundedness and continuity of objects
  • Assumption of the intrinsic boundedness and continuity of particles
  • Assumption of the intrinsic existence of (emergent) properties
  • Assumption of the intrinsic existence of causal powers
  • Assumption of the unified object of sense perceptions (both within and between observers)
  • Assumption of non-impingement: "Whatever it is, it sure doesn't depend on us"
  • Chapter summary
  • Chapter 3 - What Does Sensing Depend On?: Transduction, Energy, and the Meeting of Worlds
  • An overview of signal transduction
  • Signal transduction and cell sensing
  • Assumption of sameness and difference
  • Assumption of energy as a kind of substance
  • Relating physical and psychological phenomena
  • Re-viewing sensing: new views of transformation and change
  • Chapter summary
  • Chapter 4 - What Do Organisms Depend On?: Bodies, Lives, Selves, and Internal Worlds
  • Assumption of the boundedness and continuity of organisms
  • Assumption of the coordinator and the experiencer
  • Assumption of intrinsically existent "other minds": why do we take one another seriously as subjects?
  • Assumption of a ground: physicalism, idealism, dualism, and contingentism
  • What does your life depend on?
  • Chapter summary
  • Chapter 5 - What Does Order Depend On?: Patterns, Gaps, and the Known World
  • On cognitive patterns and cognitive dissonance: what does order depend on?
  • Assumption of the intrinsic existence of contradictions: what does surprise depend on?
  • Assumption of intrinsic hierarchies of order: what makes a good theory?
  • Assumption of a single origin and a linear history
  • Assumption of knowledge as limited: exactly where are the gaps between organismal experience and reality?
  • Chapter summary
  • Conclusion - Life As We Know It
  • "Nothing but net": thoroughgoing contingency and the absence of inherent existence
  • Why "contingentism"?: genealogies, relations, and intellectual kindred
  • The many forms that wonder takes
  • Coda: Small, vast worlds
  • Acknowledgments: What Does This Book Depend On?
  • References.

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