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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"process metaphysics"”.
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MINDFUL INQUIRY - A DEWEYAN ASSESSMENT OF MINDFULNESS AND EDUCATION
… mind, life, and inquiry based on an autopoietic process ontology and the life-mind continuity thesis, I show that the sciences of mind are currently in the midst of a revolutionary period of science, shifting from a paradigm rooted in the substance metaphysical tradition to a new, …
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An Ontology of Images and Painterly Subjectivity: Towards a Bergsonian Philosophy of Art
… an attitude of philosophy that anticipates the metaphysics of a philosophy of process, the demands of the emergence of thinking in art plays a role the directions of philosophical development. It is by this concern that key Bergsonian concepts serve as grounding of philosophical reflections of …
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The Doctrine of Christian Perfection for Today: Reading Wesley's Theology Through the Lens of Process Thought
<p>My thesis is: A process-theological reading of Wesley's doctrine of perfection, by constructing an adequate concept of God in process, gives renewed importance and vitality to Wesley's doctrine of perfection, a doctrine that has been confused and virtually ignored even by Methodists themselves, …
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A reformed Evangelical critique of Thomas Jay Oord’s Evangelical process theology
… the method and content in the Evangelical process model of relational theism as advanced in the writings of Thomas Jay Oord. The specific aim of the thesis is to evaluate and critique Oord’s model of divine providence, identifying the internal inconsistencies within Oord’s philosophical and …
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On the Flow and Structure of Process: An Inquiry into Changes of Things, or Shifts of Systems
… aims to disrupt the false dichotomy of processes vs. things both systematically and historically. The central task of my dissertation is to establish a process ontology in terms of systems. However, both the separation of things and process and the struggle to reunite them are not …