Download or read book Nature Alive written by Adam Scarfe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume pays homage to Alfred North Whitehead’s (1861-1947) profound lecture and essay entitled “Nature Alive,” which was one of his most mature expressions of his process-relational metaphysics – a holistic conceptual framework that renders vivid the dynamic character of the natural world and the intrinsic purposiveness, selective agency, and creativity of living organisms. Inspired by, but not beholden to, Whitehead’s process metaphysical “lens,” the contributors to this volume bring a multiplicity of philosophical orientations to the table in challenging the mechanistic and reductionistic neo-Darwinian paradigm that is still dominant today in the life sciences. Mechanistic neo-Darwinism views nature and living organisms as “machines,” namely, as networks of externally related and linear causal “switches,” “dials,” “levers,” “pulleys,” and “gears,” that are “at the ready” for technological and biotechnological manipulation. Seeking a conceptual framework and a language that are more adequate to the study of the natural world and of living creatures than the mechanistic orientation, the contributors to this volume explore several of the “New Frontiers of Biology,” which are areas of biology whose findings to some extent go beyond the explanatory confines of the Modern Synthesis of natural selection and genetics. Most notably, emergence theory, the theory of organic selection, epigenetics, homeostasis, chronobiology, and autopoiesis research can provide us with key insights that can assist us in explaining how living agents emerged, including the evolutionary origins of mentality, consciousness, and mind. Moreover, attention to the “New Frontiers of Biology” can serve to “re-enchant” our understanding of the natural world and to prevent ecological devastation, through a restoration to objectivity of notions such as “intrinsic purposiveness,” “selective agency,” “creativity,” and “intrinsic value.”

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Download or read book Being Alive written by Phila Back and published by Phila Back. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our witnessing of the end of nature, disease and war is dramatically raising our awareness of life, giving us motivation to reverse the destruction. Yet what we still need is a worldview that translates this vital impulse into effective action at every level at which it is needed. Being Alive: A Guide for Human Action is written by independent philosopher, issue and electoral campaign organizer Phila Back. It portrays all things in the world as living and related, also forming parts of innumerable intersecting and nested whole lives. Humans according to this view have multiple natural identities as individuals, members of communities, citizens and parts of nature. By nature they are driven by desire to act in all these capacities to seek justice for all of creation. Drawing on modern, Indigenous, ancient Eastern and Western traditions the book derives its position from self-evident facts of experience, offering readers a compelling new way of seeing the world that guides action to save humanity, democracy and the earth.

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Download or read book Weedy Wisdom for the Curious Forager written by Rebecca Gilbert and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2022-05-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find Delicious and Healthful Plants Hiding in Plain Sight With more than fifty recipes, hands-on activities, and thought-provoking social themes, Rebecca Randall Gilbert shows you exciting ways to incorporate common wild plants into your life. This beginner-friendly book provides eight essential foraging lessons based on classes Rebecca taught at Camp Jabberwocky (the oldest sleepaway camp in the US for people with disabilities). You'll learn how to gather edible flowers, work with invasive species, find flavor correspondences, process healing plants, and preserve your harvest with fermentation. From roots, seeds, and sprouts to mint, sassafras, and beyond, this practical guide deepens your understanding of plants and reveals important life lessons. Includes a foreword by Michael Leon, longtime counselor at Camp Jabberwocky