Dynamic Realism: Uncovering the Reality of Becoming through Phenomenology and Process Philosophy (Intersections in Continental and Analytic Philosophy) - Hardcover

Rock, Tina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 147448011X ISBN 13: 9781474480116

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Is reality simply static, or dynamic and relational? Tina Rock dives into the complexities of this question to reveal a new understanding of the relationship between thinking and being. Philosophy has traditionally considered reality as a set of static objects. Rock transcends this understanding to explore the realistic potential of relational and dynamic ontology. These explorations are both complex and problematic as we attempt to reconceptualise being, truth and knowledge as processual. To navigate this thinking, she takes a new phenomenological path into a realism that discloses the world as temporal and relational, without dismissing the epistemological difficulties surrounding genuine change. A fundamental challenge to outdated ways of thinking in our rapid, interconnected world, this book provides a provocative and contemporary understanding of our temporal reality.

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About the Author

Tina Röck is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Prior to this post, she taught and researched at the University of Kassel, Germany and the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her research has focussed on process ontology, dynamic modes of thinking and ancient Greek Philosophy. She is the author of Physis als bewegte Existenz – Eine Ontologie des Konkreten (2016) and is co-editor of Perspektiven der Metaphysik (2014). Her articles and chapters have appeared in numerous scholarly publications.

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Is reality simply static, or dynamic and relational? Tina Röck dives into the complexities of this question to reveal a new understanding of the relationship between thinking and being. Philosophy has traditionally considered reality as a set of static objects. Röck transcends this understanding to explore the realistic potential of relational and dynamic ontology. These explorations are both complex and problematic as we attempt to reconceptualise being, truth and knowledge as processual. To navigate this thinking, she takes a new phenomenological path into a realism that discloses the world as temporal and relational, without dismissing the epistemological difficulties surrounding genuine change. A fundamental challenge to outdated ways of thinking in our rapid, interconnected world, this book provides a provocative and contemporary understanding of our temporal reality. Tina Röck is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147448011X
• ISBN 13: 9781474480116
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320