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卷 198, 期 9, 页码 9021-9034出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02615-1
关键词
Emergentism; Epistemology; Dewey; Ontology; Pragmatism; Reductionism; Temporality
资金
- Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) [12V2318N]
This paper aims to topple the traditional hierarchy by explicating a pragmatic view of emergence based on John Dewey's work, arguing that the relationship between ontology and epistemology is a temporally reciprocal one.
Despite an attempt to break with the hierarchical picture in traditional emergentist thought, non-standard accounts of emergence are often still committed to a premise that ontology is prior to epistemology. This paper aims to topple this last remnant of the traditional hierarchy by explicating a pragmatic view of emergence based on John Dewey's work. Dewey argued that the traditional notion of ontology is premised on a view of existence as complete. Through a discussion of Dewey's work it is argued that this premise results in a process of reification that unduly excludes from ontology many precarious and indeterminate aspects involved both in everyday life and in philosophic and scientific inquiry. Building on a recent explication of transformational emergence the paper proposes a diachronic and non-hierarchical account of emergence, called pragmatic emergence. According to that account the relation between ontology and epistemology is a temporally reciprocal one. This means that ontological and epistemological features co-determine each other over time. Determinacy and continuity become historical features of a multitude of unfinished processes that we view from within.
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