NDLI: A process-based model for an interactive ontology

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Campbell, Richard
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	The paper proposes a process-based model for an ontology that encompasses the emergence of process systems generated by increasingly complex levels of organization. Starting with a division of processes into those that are persistent and those that are fleeting, the model builds through a series of exclusive and exhaustive disjunctions. The crucial distinction is between those persistent and cohesive systems that are energy wells, and those that are far-from-equilibrium. The latter are necessarily open; they can persist only by interaction with their environments. Further distinctions, developed by means of the notions of self-maintenance and error detection, lead to the identification of complex biological organisms that are flexible learners, some of which are self-conscious and form themselves into social institutions. This model provides a non-reductive model for understanding human beings as both embodied and yet emergent. In particular, it provides a way of characterizing action as ‘metaphysically deep’, not an ontological embarrassment within an otherwise physicalist world.
Starting Page	453
Ending Page	477
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00397857
Journal	Synthese
Volume Number	166
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15730964
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-08-27
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Ontology Process metaphysics Physicalism Emergence Self-maintenance Philosophy of Language Metaphysics Epistemology Logic
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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