A phenomenological revision of E. E. Harris's Dialectical Holism

Contents
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Part I: An Introduction to Dialectical Holism
	Chapter 1: The Need for a New Metaphysics
		1.1 The Historical Development of Dialectical Holism
			1.1.1 Ancient Philosophy
			1.1.2 Spinoza
			1.1.3 Hegel
			1.1.4 Pragmatism
			1.1.5 Whitehead
			1.1.6 Gestalt Psychology
			1.1.7 Phenomenology
		1.2 Process-Phenomenology and Contemporary Science
			1.2.1 Phenomenological Methods
			1.2.2 General Systems Theory
		1.3 Overview of the Arguments to Follow
		1.4 Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 2: Harris’s Holism and Contemporary Analogues
		2.1 Harris’s Holist Metaphysics
			2.1.1 Internal Relations and Process Ontology
			2.1.2 The “Concrete Universal” and “Explicative Process”
			2.1.3 Epistemic Implications
		2.2 Analogies with Autopoietic Enactivism
			2.2.1 The Metaphysics of Autopoiesis
			2.2.2 Embodiment Theory and Neurophenomenology
			2.2.3 Embedded and Extended Theories
		2.3 Analogies with Bohm’s Holism
			2.3.1 Irreducible Holism and Internal Relations
			2.3.2 E and the “Holomovement”
		2.4 Towards a Converging Paradigm
		2.5 Conclusion
		Works Cited
Part II: Dialectical Holism in Contemporary Cosmology
	Chapter 3: Dialectical Holism in Space-Time and Particle Physics
		3.1 Harris’s Space-Time Holism
			3.1.1 Prospects for Interpreting Space-Time as a Unifying Principle
		3.2 Harris’s Appeal to Unity and Irreducibility in Quantum Theory
			3.2.1 Reductive Versus Synthetic Unity
			3.2.2 Entanglement as a Purported Example of a Unifying Principle
		3.3 What Does Cosmology Have to Do with Consciousness?
			3.3.1 Anthropic Reasoning
		3.4 Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4: The Anthropic Principles of Dialectical Holism
		4.1 The Weak Anthropic Principle
			4.1.1 Levels I and II Multiverses
			4.1.2 Weak Anthropic Reasoning
		4.2 The Participatory Anthropic Principle
			4.2.1 Level III Multiverse
			4.2.2 Participatory Anthropic Reasoning
		4.3 The Final Anthropic Principle
		4.4 The Teleological Anthropic Principle
			4.4.1 Level IV Multiverse
			4.4.2 Teleological Anthropic Reasoning
		4.5 Conclusion
		Works Cited
Part III: Towards a Dialectical Holist Theory of Evolution
	Chapter 5: Levels of Complexity Within the Cosmos
		5.1 Cosmogenesis (E)
			5.1.1 Metaphysical Implications of GST
				The Universe as a Complex System
			5.1.2 Empirical Evidence for E: Towards an Enactivist Cosmology
			5.1.3 Implications for the “Law(s) of Nature”
				Argument from Absolute Chaos
		5.2 Updating Harris’s Scale of Forms
			5.2.1 What Is a Scale?
			5.2.2 What Kind of Emergence?
				First-Order Emergence
				Second-Order Emergence
				Third-Order Emergence
				Fourth-Order Emergence
			5.2.3 A Clarification of Harris’s Unifying Principle
		5.3 Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 6: Towards a Teleonomic Philosophy of Biology
		6.1 Harris’s Scale of Life
			6.1.1 The Nature of Living Being
			6.1.2 Agency and Formal Governance
				Conceptualizing Minimal Cognition and Intentionality
		6.2 Dialectical Evolution
			6.2.1 Evolution According to Systems Biology
				The Telos of Mind and Life
			6.2.2 Ecopoiesis and Evolutionary Selection
				The Gaia Theory
		6.3 Conclusion
		Works Cited
Part IV: Dialectical Holism and the Metaphysics of Mind
	Chapter 7: Harris’s Reformation of the “Hard Problem”
		7.1 Harris’s Anticipation of an Enactivist Strategy
		7.2 Ideatum: The Idea of the Body
			7.2.1 Sensorimotor-Enactivism and Affectivity
		7.3 Conatus: The Self-preservation of Consciousness
			7.3.1 Embedded Persons and Responsible Minds
		7.4 Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 8: Bridging Philosophies of Consciousness and Cosmology
		8.1 Consciousness as a Phase of Matter
			8.1.1 Neurodynamic Field Theory
			8.1.2 The “Φ”, Phase, and Scale of Consciousness
		8.2 Ontological Individuation: Chasing the Slippery Serpent
			8.2.1 Pragmatism, Coherence Theory, and Transdisciplinarity: Towards a Unity-in-Diversity of Nature
			8.2.2 Towards a Topo-logic of Phenomenology
		8.3 Dialectical Holism
			8.3.1 On the Topology of Self-transcendence
			8.3.2 Ethical Implications: The Responsibility of Being a “Philosopher”
		8.4 Conclusion
		Works Cited
Index