All Outputs (2)

Collective Powers (2023)
Book Chapter
Guo, X., & Tugby, M. (2023). Collective Powers. In C. J. Austin, A. Marmodoro, & A. Roselli (Eds.), Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers (142-166). New York and Abingdon: Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003298830-11

It is natural to think there are higher-level powers, such as a screen’s powers to display various images, and lower-level powers such as each pixel’s powers to display various colours. Moreover, it is natural to think that higher-level powers depend... Read More about Collective Powers.

Organisms, activity and being: on the substance of process ontology (2020)
Journal Article
Austin, C. (2020). Organisms, activity and being: on the substance of process ontology. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10(2), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-0278-0

According to contemporary ‘process ontology’, organisms are best conceptualised as spatio-temporally extended entities whose mereological composition is fundamentally contingent and whose essence consists in changeability. In contrast to the Aristote... Read More about Organisms, activity and being: on the substance of process ontology.