دانلود کتاب ماتریالیسم معاصر: هستی شناسی و معرفت شناسی آن

What is materialism and what can it offer today? This book aims at showing that materialism is much more than physicalism and that philosophical approaches to materialism can redirect current discussions on ontology and epistemology. To be up to the task, however, philosophical materialism needs to be aware of both up-todate scientific results and the subtleties of the philosophical tradition. We aim to explore fresh understandings of matter and our knowledge of it, which are well-informed not only by current physics but also by natural, social, and biosocial sciences. Thus, the book’s chapters delve on quantum matter, spacetime, living matter, the mind, mathematics, and logic, among others. Our goal is also to strengthen the role of philosophical materialismin the interpretation of the history of philosophical ideas. Several of the book’s chapters do that work aiming at novel and penetrating revisions. The result, we hope, will show that philosophical materialism, being well alive, stimulates further research and discussions in current ontological and epistemological issues. The path to this book started at a discussion table on the relationships among science, philosophy, and ideology organized by one of us (Lino Camprubí) at the University of Barcelona, where the other two (Gustavo E. Romero and Javier Pérez- Jara) were paying academic visits. We are thankful for the UB’s hospitality as well as for that of Xavier Roqué and José Romo. After drafting the book’s main topics, we contacted some of the colleagues whom we thought could provide fresh outlooks. Our deepest gratitude goes of course to the authors of the chapters and discussions for their good work and their willingness to discuss their drafts with us, sometimes to minute details. Some of those who accepted to participate at first could not continue, but we thank them for their initial enthusiasm, which helped keeping ours high. From the onset, we got a very positive response from Otavio Bueno, editor of the Springer Synthese Library. He was instrumental in making us put all of this together in due time and shape. A second meeting between the editors at the University of Seville, which hosted us for 3 days, gave the final shape to the book proposal as well as to the historical chapter with which we open the book after the Introduction. We thus thank the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science there, and in particular José Ferreirós. During writing, Javier Pérez-Jara was a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Department of Religious Studies and Kyoto Sangyo University’s Department of Sociology, and he would like to thank, respectively, Thomas Sheehan, Fujino Atsuko, Ito Kimio, Piya Tom, and Nohara Jun for their support and feedback on his research. He also thanks Song Zening, Niu Huayong, and Qin Chuan at Beijing Foreign Studies University’s International Business School for their support and guidance from the beginning of this project. Gustavo E. Romero thanks the National University of La Plata, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the University of Barcelona, the University of Seville, and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB), University of Barcelona, for hospitality and support at different stages of this project. He is also indebted to Mario Bunge for many discussions on the topic of this book and the nature of the quantum world. Finally, the editors also thank Jesús Ledo García for his expertise in computer science, which greatly helped us to compile the finished book in LATEX. During the preparation of this book, Mario Bunge, one of the leading materialist philosophers of the twentieth century and part of this century passed away. He was 100 years old. We want to dedicate this volume to his memory.