Life and Process

Life and Process
Author: Spyridon A. Koutroufinis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2014-05-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110373319

Alfred North Whitehead is arguably the most original 20th-century philosopher of nature and metaphysics. In recent decades a number of physicists have produced ground-breaking new theories in fundamental physics influenced by his process philosophy. In contrast, few biologists are even aware that Whitehead’s radical rethinking of the Cartesian assumptions implicit in 19th-century sciences might be relevant to their enterprise. This book seeks to fill this gap by exploring how Whitehead’s process ontology might provide a new philosophical foundation for the biosciences of the 21st century. The central premise shared by all of the volume’s authors is the idea that all living processes are irreducible processes. Each chapter focuses on assumptions implicit in some of the core concepts of biology – such as organism, evolution, information, and teleology – that play crucial explanatory roles in the biosciences, but as metaphysical concepts fall outside its purview. The authors each identify important shortcomings implicit in contemporary biological paradigms and show how an approach grounded in a process-oriented metaphysics can avoid them.

Principles of Biology

Principles of Biology
Author: Lisa Bartee
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN: 9781636350417

The Principles of Biology sequence (BI 211, 212 and 213) introduces biology as a scientific discipline for students planning to major in biology and other science disciplines. Laboratories and classroom activities introduce techniques used to study biological processes and provide opportunities for students to develop their ability to conduct research.

Life Cycle of a Process Plant

Life Cycle of a Process Plant
Author: Mahdi Nouri
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-12-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128135999

Life Cycle of a Process Plant focuses on workflows, work processes, and interfaces. It is an ideal reference book for engineers of all disciplines, technicians, and business people working in the upstream, midstream, and downstream fields. This book is tailored to the everyday work tasks of the process and project engineer/manager and relates regulations to actions engineers can take in the workplace via case studies. It covers oil, gas, chemical, petrochemical, and carbon capture industries. The content in this book will be interesting for any engineers (from all disciplines) and other project team members who understand the technical principles of their work, but who would like to have a better idea of where their contribution fits into the complete picture of the life cycle of a process plant. This book shows the basic principles and approaches of process plant lifecycle information management and how they can be applied to generate substantial cost and time savings. Thus, the readers with their own knowledge and experience in plant design and operations can adapt and implement them into their specific plant lifecycle applications. - Authors bring their practical and hands-on industry expertise to this book - Covers the entire workflow process of a process plant from project initiation and design through to the commissioning stage - Cost estimations which relate to process plants are discussed - Covers the program and project management in O&G industry

The Nature of Order: The process of creating life

The Nature of Order: The process of creating life
Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2002
Genre: Architectural design
ISBN: 9780972652926

This four-volume work allows the reader to form one picture of the world in which the perspectives from science, beauty and grace, and commonsense intuitions are interlaced.

Science For Tenth Class Part 3 Biology

Science For Tenth Class Part 3 Biology
Author: Lakhmir Singh & Manjit Kaur
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9355010311

A series of six books for Classes IX and X according to the CBSE syllabus. Each class divided into 3 parts. Part 1 - Physics Part 2 - Chemistry Part 3 - Biology

Concepts of Biology

Concepts of Biology
Author: Samantha Fowler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-05-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781739015503

Black & white print. Concepts of Biology is designed for the typical introductory biology course for nonmajors, covering standard scope and sequence requirements. The text includes interesting applications and conveys the major themes of biology, with content that is meaningful and easy to understand. The book is designed to demonstrate biology concepts and to promote scientific literacy.

Process Metaphysics and Mutative Life

Process Metaphysics and Mutative Life
Author: Wahida Khandker
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2020-05-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030430480

This book provides a survey of key process-philosophical approaches that, in conversation with selected concepts across the biological and physical sciences, help us to think about living processes, or ‘lived time,’ at different scales of functioning. The first part is written from an opening perspective on the question of the differing scales of analysis provided by Alfred North Whitehead. In particular, his interest in questions arising from the quantum mechanical reconciliation with classical mechanics informs the first two chapters that address problematic categorizations of life as variously ‘despotic,’ ‘invasive,’ or as primitive (in the radically more-than-human case of micro-organisms), whose potential recategorization relies on our willingness to acknowledge changes in value depending on the scale at which we view them. The second part of the book concerns methodologies, in the light of works by Henri Bergson, whose intertwining concerns with epistemology and ontology in his theories of mind and life serve as a model for a process philosophy of biology. The chapters focus on techniques used across philosophy and the sciences to visualize processes that are otherwise unavailable to us due to the limitations of our perceptual faculties, no matter how sophisticated the tools for analysis, from microscopes to telescopes, have become. This book concludes with a consideration of the relations between parts and wholes in process, panpsychist, and ecological terms. It revisits the question of ecological balance and the place of human activities in relation to it, with reference to works of Charles Hartshorne and William James.

Communication as a Life Process, Volume Two

Communication as a Life Process, Volume Two
Author: Marta Bogusławska-Tafelska
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1527534014

This volume is a collection of texts authored by an international team of linguistic scholars who provide their response to the concept of 21st century holism in language studies. The expertise of its contributors is reflected in the thematic scope of the book; it discusses topics such as the concept of harmony in interpersonal communication, semiotic and cultural phenomena handled by discourse analysis, selected aspects of religious discourse, and the study of proverbs or educational processes, to name but a few. 21st century holism embraces a solid theoretical base in post-Newtonian physics (quantum theory in particular), and departs from materialistic and atomistic perspectives based on Darwinism or cognitivism, however tempted we may be to allow the inertia of these in Western science and culture. Once a scholar decides to shift their paradigmatic perspective, thinking style, and research methodology, they start to co-build a collective mental representation herein referred to as ‘the culture of consciousness’.