The Foundations of Metaphysics in Science

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Dr Harris demonstrates in detail how 20th-century scientific theories demand and presuppose a holistic metaphysics, an implication largely ignored by the prevailing schools of philosophy.

Preface to the 1993 Edition	p. 9
Preface	p. 13
Introduction
Scientific Philosophy
The Criteria of Science	p. 17
Empiricism and Atomism	p. 23
Science and Metaphysics	p. 28
The task proposed	p. 31
The Physical World
The Revolution in Physics	p. 37
Order of Procedure	p. 39
Relativity
Classical Concepts	p. 41
The special Theory of Relativity	p. 45
The idea of the field	p. 52
The General Theory of Relativity	p. 53
Electrical and magnetic forces	p. 57
Unification of the physical world	p. 59
The Primordial Matrix
The Plenum	p. 64
Samuel Alexander's Theory	p. 69
Co-existence and Succession	p. 73
'Time is the mind of space'	p. 77
Organizing Relations	p. 79
Polyphasic Unity	p. 80
The Expanding Universe
Closure of the Universe	p. 85
'That Queer Quantity Infinity'	p. 88
The 'True Infinite'	p. 90
Alternative Cosmologies	p. 92
Eddington and the Constants of Nature	p. 95
Milne's Kinematic Theory	p. 101
Interrelatedness	p. 106
Matter and Energy
Open Questions	p. 109
The New Theory of Matter	p. 110
Subject and Object	p. 114
Probability	p. 119
The Problem of Continuous Description	p. 124
Waves and Particles	p. 126
The Principle of Exclusion	p. 131
The Atom	p. 139
Wholeness and Hierarchy
The Unified World	p. 142
Form and Matter, Order and Chance	p. 145
Hierarchal Order	p. 153
Whole and Part	p. 155
The Riddle of Life
What is Life?	p. 163
Crystals	p. 164
New Levels of Organization	p. 169
Open Systems	p. 173
Auturgy	p. 180
Biochemistry, Natural Selection and the Origin of Life
The Crux of the Problem	p. 185
Biogenic and Abiogenic Synthesis	p. 186
Philosophical Implications	p. 192
Organic Activity
The Cell	p. 199
Growth	p. 200
Differentiation	p. 204
Reproduction	p. 207
Development	p. 210
Regulation	p. 213
Homeostasis and Relevant Variation	p. 217
Evolution
Introductory	p. 226
Neo-Darwinism	p. 227
The Argument from Improbability	p. 234
Organismic Control of Mutation	p. 242
Survival Value	p. 247
Biocoenosis	p. 251
Directional Progress	p. 253
Mechanism and Teleology
Materialism and Vitalism	p. 259
Objections to Teleology	p. 261
Regulation and Design	p. 264
Organization	p. 266
Prolepsis	p. 268
Orthogenesis and Lamarkism	p. 273
End and Process	p. 275
The Philosophy of Process and Organism
Scala Naturae	p. 279
Organism and Dialetic	p. 281
Body and Mind
Mind and Consciousness	p. 287
Psycho-physical Continuity	p. 289
Sensitivity and Sensibility	p. 296
Neural-Identity Theory	p. 299
Intensity of Integration	p. 303
Feeling
The 'Critical Pitch' of Organization	p. 310
Primitive Sentience	p. 313
Exteroceptive Sensations	p. 317
Field Organization	p. 322
Emotion	p. 324
Feeling and Movement	p. 325
Consciousness
Attention as Organizing Agency	p. 329
Creation of Data	p. 332
Attention and Activity	p. 336
Schemata and objects	p. 338
Behaviour
Molar and Molecular	p. 343
Appearance and Reality	p. 346
The Structure of Instinctive Behaviour	p. 351
Purposiveness	p. 357
Learning	p. 360
Perception - I Physiological Theories
Perception as Appearance	p. 367
Physiological Idealism	p. 370
Cybernetics	p. 380
Perception - II Psychological Theories
Why Do Things Look as they Do?	p. 388
Gestalt and Cell Assembly	p. 393
'Set' and Functionalism	p. 400
Epistemological Implications	p. 407
Directive State and 'Hypothesis'	p. 410
Observation and Scientific Theory	p. 415
Perception as Organization	p. 416
Datum or Constructum?	p. 418
A Note on Memory
Intelligence
Intelligence and Adaptation	p. 425
Subjectivity and Objectivity	p. 427
Development of Intelligent Behaviour	p. 431
Insight and Organized Knowledge - the Wurzburg Discoveries	p. 433
Development of Operational Thinking	p. 436
Intellect and Action	p. 440
The Generation of Information	p. 444
Relatedness and System
Return from Analysis	p. 451
Holism and Pluralism	p. 452
System, Individuation and Overlap of Terms	p. 455
Relations and Continua	p. 458
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Continua	p. 461
Progression and Completion	p. 463
Principle of Organization and Universality	p. 465
System	p. 467
Space, Time and Causality
Space-time as Metric and Scale	p. 471
The Ambiguity of Time	p. 473
Time and Causal Determination	p. 474
Freedom	p. 478
Mind and Knowledge
Immanence of the Generic Form	p. 485
Idealism and Materialism; Emergence and Vitalism	p. 487
The Real and the Rational	p. 490
The Status of Science	p. 491
Bibliography	p. 497
Index of Names	p. 507
Index of Subjects	p. 512
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