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Author:  Daniel J. Nicholson, John Dupre

Everything Flows explores the metaphysical thesis that the living world is not made up of substantial particles or things, as has often been supposed, but is rather constituted by processes. The biological domain is organised as an interdependent hierarchy of processes, which are stabilized and actively maintained at different timescales. Even entities that intuitively appear to be paradigms of things, such as organisms, are actually better understood as processes. Unlike previous attempts to articulate processual views of biology, which have tended to use Alfred North Whitehead’s panpsychist metaphysics as a foundation, this book takes a naturalistic approach to metaphysics. It submits that the main motivations for replacing an ontology of substances with one of processes are to be found in the empirical findings of science. Biology provides compelling reasons for thinking that the living realm is fundamentally dynamic, and that the existence of things is always conditional on the existence of processes. The phenomenon of life cries out for theories that prioritise processes over things, and it suggests that the central explanandum of biology is not change but rather stability, or more precisely, stability attained through constant change. This edited volume brings together philosophers of science and metaphysicians interested in exploring the prospects of a processual philosophy of biology. The contributors draw on an extremely wide range of biological case studies, and employ a process perspective to cast new light on a number of traditional philosophical problems, such as identity, persistence, and individuality.

Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Introduction
1. A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology, John Dupre & Daniel J. Nicholson
Part II: Metaphysics
2. Processes and Precipitates, Peter Simons
3. Dispositionalism: A Dynamic Theory of Causation, Rani Lill Anjum & Stephen Mumford
4. Biological Processes: Criteria of Identity and Persistence, James DiFrisco
5. Genidentity and Biological Processes, Thomas Pradeu
6. Ontological Tools for the Process Turn in Biology: Some Basic Notions of General Process Theory, Johanna Seibt
Part III: Organisms
7. Reconceptualizing the Organism: From Complex Machine to Flowing Stream, Daniel J. Nicholson
8. Objectcy and Agency: Towards a Methodological Vitalism, Denis Walsh
9. Symbiosis, Transient Biological Individuality, and Evolutionary Processes, Frederic Bouchard
10. From Organizations of Processes to Organisms and Other Biological Individuals, Argyris Arnellos
Part IV: Development and Education
11. Developmental Systems Theory as a Process Theory, Paul Griffiths & Karola Stotz
12. Waddington’s Processual Epigenetics and the Debate over Cryptic Variability, Flavia Fabris
13. Capturing Processes: The Interplay of Modelling Strategies and Conceptual Understanding in Developmental Biology, Laura Nuno de la Rosa
14. Intersecting Processes are Necessary Explanantia for Evolutionary Biology, but Challenge Retrodiction, Eric Bapteste & Gemma Anderson
Part IV: Implications and Applications
15. A Process Ontology for Macromolecular Biology, Stephan Guttinger
16. A Processual Perspective on Cancer, Marta Bertolaso & John Dupre
17. Measuring the World: Olfaction as a Process Model of Perception, Ann-Sophie Barwich
18. Persons as Biological Processes: A Bio-Processual Way Out of the Personal Identity Dilemma, Anne Sophie Meincke

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