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Relational Ontologies
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Author : Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon
language : en
Publisher: Counterpoints
Release Date : 2017
Relational Ontologies written by Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon and has been published by Counterpoints this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.
Relational Ontologies uses the metaphor of a fishing net to represent the epistemological and ontological beliefs that we weave together for our children, to give meaning to their experiences and to help sustain them in their lives. The book describes the epistemological threads we use to help determine what we catch up in our net as the warp threads, and our ontological threads as the weft threads. It asks: what kind of fishing nets are we weaving for our children to help them make sense of their experiences? What weft threads are we including and working to strengthen, and what threads are we removing or leaving out? It is important to carefully re/examine these most basic ways of catching up what sustains us in our ocean of infinite experiences, as the threads we weave for our children will determine what they catch up in their nets, until they are old enough to re/weave their own. Relational Ontologies reweaves America's epistemological and ontological fishing net on a larger scale, turning to indigenous cultures and diverse spiritual beliefs for assistance in reforming American schools.
Dynamic Being
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Author : Vesselin Petrov
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015
Dynamic Being written by Vesselin Petrov and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Ontology categories.
One of the most important characteristics of present day ontological research is the growing interest in, and emphasis on, the dynamic aspects of being and the process-relational character of being itself. However, many important questions still await detailed answers. For example, what is the meaning of the concepts of â oedynamics, â â oedynamicity, â and â oedynamic ontology, â among others? Are they identical to, or similar with, respectively, â oeprocesses, â â oeprocess ontology, â â oeprocess-relational ontologyâ ? Is â oeprocess ontologyâ a type of â oedynamic ontologyâ ? Dynamic Being: Essays in Process-Relational Ontology examines these and many other questions, and suggests fruitful approaches in dealing with such questions. The book carries out two main tasks: first, investigating developments in the theory of dynamic and process-relational ontologies, and, second, exploring developments in the application of these ontologies. The second task is multidisciplinary in character. The authors of the chapters in this volume are specialists not only in philosophy, but also in other fields of science, including psychology, biology, mathematics, logic, and computer science, their work providing a â oeseed-bedâ of novel possibilities for cooperative interdisciplinary research.
Towards A Relational Ontology
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Author : Andrew Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2015-04-27
Towards A Relational Ontology written by Andrew Benjamin and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-27 with Philosophy categories.
In this original work of philosophy, Andrew Benjamin calls for a new understanding of relationality, one inaugurating a philosophical mode of thought that takes relations among people and events as primary, over and above conceptions of simple particularity or abstraction. Drawing on the work of Descartes, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Heidegger, Benjamin shows that a relational ontology has always been at work within the history of philosophy even though philosophy has been reluctant to affirm its presence. Arguing for what he calls anoriginal relationality, he demonstrates that the already present status of a relational ontology is philosophy's other possibility. Touching on a range of topics including community, human-animal relations, and intimacy, Benjamin's thoughtful and penetrating distillation of ancient, modern, and twentieth-century philosophical ideas, and his judicious attention to art and literature make this book a model for original philosophical thinking and writing.
Human As Relational
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Author : Joseph Kaipayil
language : en
Publisher: Joseph Kaipayil
Release Date : 2003
Human As Relational written by Joseph Kaipayil and has been published by Joseph Kaipayil this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Philosophy categories.
Ontology And Closeness In Human Nature Relationships
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Author : Neil H. Kessler
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-10-10
Ontology And Closeness In Human Nature Relationships written by Neil H. Kessler and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-10 with Science categories.
In Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships, Neil H. Kessler identifies the preconceptions which can keep the modern human mind in the dark about what is happening relationally between humans and the more-than-human world. He has written an accessible work of environmental philosophy, with a focus on the ontology of human-nature relationships. In it, he contends that large-scale environmental problems are intimate and relational in origin. He also challenges the deeply embedded, modernist assumptions about the relational limitations of more-than-human beings, ones which place erroneous limitations on the possibilities for human/more-than-human closeness. Diverging from the posthumanist literature and its frequent reliance on new materialist ontology, the arguments in the book attempt to sweep away what ecofeminists call “human/nature dualisms. In doing so, conceptual avenues open up that have the power to radically alter how we engage in our daily interactions with the more-than-human world all around us. Given the diversity of fields and disciplines focused on the human-nature relationship, the topics of this book vary quite broadly, but always converge at the nexus of what is possible between humans and more-than-human beings. The discussion interweaves the influence of human/nature dualisms with the limitations of Deleuzian becoming and posthumanism’s new materialism and agential realism. It leverages interhuman interdependence theory, Charles Peirce’s synechism of feeling and various treatments of Theory of Mind while exploring the influence of human/nature dualisms on sustainability, place attachment, common worlds pedagogy, emergence, and critical animal studies. It also explores the implications of plant electrical activity, plant intelligence, and plant “neurobiology” for possibilities of relational capacities in plants while even grappling with theories of animism to challenge the animate/inanimate divide. The result is an engaging, novel treatment of human-nature relational ontology that will encourage the reader to look at the world in a whole new way.
Relational Ontology And Analytic Philosophy
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Author : Francisco Rodríguez Consuegra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-20
Relational Ontology And Analytic Philosophy written by Francisco Rodríguez Consuegra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-20 with Analysis (Philosophy) categories.
The main goal in this book is to attempt a global account of Russell's views on relations, by considering them as the very kernel of the fundamental problems and difficulties he faced in trying to build up a consistent, scientific philosophy. It will maintained that: (i) the ontology of relations (as implied in the problem whether relations can or cannot be regarded as terms), and related notions (such as order, form, structure, and, in general, complexes) underlay Russell's main problems at each stage of his whole philosophical development; (ii) Bradley's paradox of relations (which can also affect Wittgenstein's "formal concepts", i.e. class, function, predicate, proposition, and of course form and structure), is very useful, together with Frege's paradox of concepts and Moore's paradox of truth, as a touchstone to discuss Russell's several attempts to find a way out to those problems.
Relational Engagements Of The Indigenous Americas
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Author : Melissa R. Baltus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Relational Engagements Of The Indigenous Americas written by Melissa R. Baltus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Indians of North America categories.
Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas critically examines our current understanding of relational theory and the ontological turn in archaeological studies of the pre-contact Americas.
Ontologies Of Rock Art
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Author : Oscar Moro Abadía
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-03
Ontologies Of Rock Art written by Oscar Moro Abadía and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-03 with Social Science categories.
Ontologies of Rock Art is the first publication to explore a wide range of ontological approaches to rock art interpretation, constituting the basis for groundbreaking studies on Indigenous knowledges, relational metaphysics, and rock imageries. The book contributes to the growing body of research on the ontology of images by focusing on five main topics: ontology as a theoretical framework; the development of new concepts and methods for an ontological approach to rock art; the examination of the relationships between ontology, images, and Indigenous knowledges; the development of relational models for the analysis of rock images; and the impact of ontological approaches on different rock art traditions across the world. Generating new avenues of research in ontological theory, political ontology, and rock art research, this collection will be relevant to archaeologists, anthropologists, and philosophers. In the context of an increasing interest in Indigenous ontologies, the volume will also be of interest to scholars in Indigenous studies. Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780429321863/ontologies-rock-art-oscar-moro-abad%C3%ADa-martin-porr?context=ubx&refId=3766b051-4754-4339-925c-2a262a505074
Thinking Across Worlds
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Author : Jarrad Reddekop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Thinking Across Worlds written by Jarrad Reddekop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
This study undertakes a cultural critique of dominant, modern relationships to nature through a cross-cultural philosophical engagement with certain Indigenous American traditions of thought. This is done through a focus on questions of ontology: what kind of ontological presuppositions inform our own dominant, modern philosophical heritage? What kinds of relations do these at once enable and foreclose? And what alternate possibilities for thinking and living might be opened through different ontologies? I argue that grappling with modernity's legacy of anthropocentrism and ecologically disastrous relationships forces us to rethink an existential terrain set by an atomistic ontology that reflects a Christian interpretation of the world. In contrast to this dominant ontology and as a way of defamiliarizing ourselves from it, this study endeavours to think with and alongside what I argue are profoundly relational ontologies and styles of thinking expressed by different Indigenous philosophies and lifeways. It also poses the question: how might relational ontologies open up different ways of understanding and experiencing ourselves, of disclosing and relating to the nonhuman, of construing the nature of our ethical horizons? As part of my exploration of this question, I bring Indigenous thought into conversation with two thinkers from the Western tradition who arrive, from their own directions, at somewhat analogously relational perspectives - namely, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. I argue that the critical arsenal these thinkers offer Western theory gives valuable insights concerning the potential that relational thinking might have as a counterdiscourse vis à vis our dominant culture - but that Indigenous thought pushes us much farther still in this direction. Accordingly, I try to explore how lessons from Indigenous thought might lead us to rethink or recuperate on different terms certain elements of Nietzsche and Heidegger's critiques. Rethinking counterdiscursive possibilities in this way, this study seeks to contribute towards a critical theorizing that is more consciously responsive to the intertwined legacies of colonialism, modern thought, and our present ecological crises; to connected political contours, tensions, and possibilities within our present; and also better attuned to possible points of productive consonance, conversation, and allegiance therein.
Relationality And Resilience In A Not So Relational World
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Author : Nhemachena, Artwell
language : en
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Release Date : 2017-03-08
Relationality And Resilience In A Not So Relational World written by Nhemachena, Artwell and has been published by Langaa RPCIG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-08 with Social Science categories.
This book critically examines the relevance of the increasingly popular theories on relationality by interfacing those theories with the African [Shona] modes of engagement known as chivanhu [often erroneously narrowly translated as tradition]. In other words, the book takes seriously concerns by African scholars that much of the theories that have been applied in Africa do not speak to relevance and faithfulness to the continent. Situated in a recent Zimbabwean context marked by multiple crises producing multiple forms of violence and want, the book examines the relevance of relational ontologies and epistemologies to the everyday life modes of engagements by villagers in a selected district. The book unflinchingly surfaces the strengths and weaknesses of popular theories while at the same time underlining the exigencies of theorising from Africa using African data as the millstones. By meticulously and painstakingly unpacking pertinent issues, the book provides unparalleled intellectual grit for the contemporary and increasingly popular discourses on (de-)coloniality and resilience in relation to the African peoples and their [often deliberately contested] environments, past, present and future. In other words, the book loudly sounds the bells for the battles to decolonise and transform Africa on Africa’s own terms. This is a book that would be extremely useful to scholars, activists, theorists, policy makers and implementers as well as researchers interested not only in Africa’s future trajectory but also in the simultaneities of temporalities and worlds that were sadly overshadowed by colonial epistemologies and ontologies for the past centuries.