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Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the term for the first time in the 17th century. But what is materialism and what can it offer today? The term is usually defined as the worldview according to which everything real is material. Nevertheless, there is no philosophical consensus about whether the meaning of matter can be enlarged beyond the physical. As a consequence, materialism is often defined in stark exclusive and reductionist terms: whatever exists is either physical or ontologically reducible to it. This conception, if consistent, mutilates reality, excluding the ontological significance of political, economic, sociocultural, anthropological and psychological realities. Starting from a new history of materialism, the present book focuses on the central ontological and epistemological debates aroused by today's leading materialist approaches, including some little known to an anglophone readership. The key concepts of matter, system, emergence, space and time, life, mind, and software are checked over and updated. Controversial issues such as the nature of mathematics and the place of reductionism are also discussed from different materialist approaches. As a result, materialism emerges as a powerful, indispensable scientifically-supported worldview with a surprising wealth of nuances and possibilities. Editorial
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monografia Rebiun32184620 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun32184620 220923s2022 sz a b 001 0 eng d 9783030894870 hardcover) 3030894878 hardcover) 9783030894887 eBook) UM0764611 S9M spa rda S9M OCLCF S9M 111 141.12 165 Contemporary materialism its ontology and epistemology Gustavo E. Romero, Javier Pérez-Jara, Lino Camprubí, editors Cham, Switzerland Springer [2022] Cham, Switzerland Cham, Switzerland Springer 2022 xix, 378 páginas ilustraciones (blanco y negro, y color) 24 cm xix, 378 páginas Texto txt rdacontent sin mediación n rdamedia/spa volumen nc rdacarrier/spa Synthese library volume 447 Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the term for the first time in the 17th century. But what is materialism and what can it offer today? The term is usually defined as the worldview according to which everything real is material. Nevertheless, there is no philosophical consensus about whether the meaning of matter can be enlarged beyond the physical. As a consequence, materialism is often defined in stark exclusive and reductionist terms: whatever exists is either physical or ontologically reducible to it. This conception, if consistent, mutilates reality, excluding the ontological significance of political, economic, sociocultural, anthropological and psychological realities. Starting from a new history of materialism, the present book focuses on the central ontological and epistemological debates aroused by today's leading materialist approaches, including some little known to an anglophone readership. The key concepts of matter, system, emergence, space and time, life, mind, and software are checked over and updated. Controversial issues such as the nature of mathematics and the place of reductionism are also discussed from different materialist approaches. As a result, materialism emerges as a powerful, indispensable scientifically-supported worldview with a surprising wealth of nuances and possibilities. Editorial Materialismo Ontología Epistemología Materialism Ontology Knowledge, Theory of Materialismo Ontología Epistemología Romero, Gustavo E. editor lteraio. edt Pérez-Jara, Javier editor literario. edt Camprubí, Lino 1981-) editor literario. edt Synthese library v. 447