Being in Flux. Rein Raud

      

       Table of Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright Page

      4  Acknowledgements

      5  Epigraph

      6  Introduction Notes

      7  1 Ontology: Some of the Story So Far Objects and properties Two kinds of essentialism Identity and continuity Substance vs. pattern continuity Process philosophies Multiplicities and networks Back to objects? Critique of the critique of critique: excess and change Ontological priority, antigradualism and counterfactuals Methodological perspectivism If disease is not a ‘thing’, then what is it? Social constructionism Accommodating anti-representationalism The theory of assemblages Gaze and relationality Summary Notes

      8  2 An Ontology of Processes and Fields The tradition Ontological tiers Gradients and thresholds Properties and capacities Relations Matter as emergence Minimal instances of being Field ontology What is a process? Internality Game changers Time regimes Causality Causal laws Initialism Memory and desire, cell and lens Summary Notes

      9  3 Me, Myself and My Brain Consciousness and mind Thresholds of evolution Mind on a gradient Are we our brains? From brain to mind And I think to myself … The decision-making focus The core self Combat vs. constitution United states of mind The mind and the world The self as a field Summary Notes

      10  4 The Self as an Extended Decision-Making Network The body Bodythink From movement to agency Agency as self-realization Agency and temporality Future-in-itself Mental causation The extended network From cognition to action Responsibility The flattened image Collective selves? Modes of joint action Performative inclusion Shared or joint cognition? Summary Notes