Physics without Metaphysics? Categories of Second Generation Scientific Ontology

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This study discusses the substance-tradition from Aristotle to Kant, Gödel, Quine, Strawson, Armstrong and others, the concept of matter and causation in quantum physics, Being-thinking from Aristotle to Heidegger, and system-building from Plato to Whitehead. It synthesizes the Kantian phenomena-noumena, extends the Quinean ontological commitment, creates a Gödelian foundationalist truth-probabilism, relativizes the Whiteheadian actual entity, extends the Aristotelian-Heideggerian Being to a nomic-nominal, verbal-processual To Be and overhauls perspectival-absolutist, non-foundationalist and relativist concepts of Reality. The resulting scientific ontology is termed Einaic Ontology for maximalist, mutually collusive, categorial reasons. The Appendix explains Heidegger’s anthropologized Being as ontologically and cosmologically defective. Cover Preface An Appraisal of "Physics without Metaphysics?" Contents General Introduction. Second Generation Scientific-Ontological Categories 1. Mutually Collusive Non-classificational Categories 2. General Method and Rationale 3. Transcendentals and Transcendents 4. Methodology of Mutual Collusion 5. Aim 1: Scientific-Ontological Categories and System-Building 6. Aim 2: Synthesis of Nominal ‘Being’ and Verbal ‘To Be’ Chapter 1. Ontological Categorial Transcendent of Cosmology Introduction 1.1 Redeeming Cosmological Categories from Idealism 1.1.1 Entities and Predicates as Particularist Categories 1.1.2 Kant and Modern Physics on Phenomenal Categories 1.1.2.1 Understanding ‘Phenomena’ and Sensing ‘Noumena’ 1.1.2.2 Conflating Seeing-that, Seeing and Seeing-as 1.1.2.3 Phenomenalistic Idealization of Forms and Categories 1.1.3 A Category from Phenomena-Noumena Continuity 1.2 Microscopic Categorial Features of Quantum Mechanics 1.2.1 Apriority in Scientific Categories and Realism 1.2.2 Wave-Particle Duality and the Concept of Reality 1.2.3 Nonlocality and the Concept of Reality 1.2.4 Ontological Categorial Foundation of Quantum Mechanics 1.3 Categorial Features of Relativistic Theories 1.3.1 Questions in the Origin of the Special Theory of Relativity 1.3.1.1 Inertial Referential Velocity of Light 1.3.1.2 Principle of Relativity and Superluminal Velocities 1.3.2 Space, Time, Mass and Causality from Newton to Einstein 1.3.2.1 Classical and Reformed Views of Continuous Reality 1.3.2.2 Beyond Scientific Causality and Categories 1.4 Ontological Synthesis of Categories of the Cosmos 1.4.1 Reality-in-total: The Ultimate Transcendent Category 1.4.2 Mathematical Entities vs. Ultimacy in Denotability of Reality-in-total Conclusion Chapter 2. Ontological Categorial Transcendental of Epistemology Introduction 2.1 Transcendental Categorial Orientation in Epistemic Actualities 2.1.1 Laws of Nature and the Epistemology of Essences 2.1.2 Transcendental Categorial Orientation in Particularism 2.2 Transcendental Categorial Dimension of Probabilistic Essences 2.2.1 Categorial Confluence of Causality, Laws and Essences 2.2.2 System-Building vs. Absolutism and Probabilism in Essences 2.2.2.1 Gödel’s Theorem and System-Building 2.2.2.2 Gödel’s Result vs. Probabilistic Universals and Categories 2.2.3 Transcendental Aspect of Particularist Probability-Makers 2.3 Reality-in-general: Synthesis of Categories of Knowing Conclusion Chapter 3. Ontolgoical Categorial Transcendental of Reality-in-total Introduction 3.1 To Be: The Einaic Ontological Transcendental "Par Excellence" 3.2 Einaic Objectual Ontology beyond Quine 3.2.1 Relevance of Quine’s Ontological Commitment and Holism 3.2.2 Objectual Ontology vs. Particularist Ontological Commitment 3.2.3 The ‘Is’ of Abstract Objects: Quine-Carnap Dialogue 3.2.4 From ‘Is’ to Language-Ladenness and To Be 3.3 Einaic and Semantic Ontology of Actualizing Possibility 3.3.1 The Ontological Transcendental vs. Semantic Holism 3.3.2 To Be as Possibilizing Actuality in Possibility 3.3.3 Dynamism of Einaic Semantic Connectivity 3.3.4 Einaic Logic and Ontology of Quantification 3.4 Trans-categorial Transcendental or Way of Being of Reality Conclusion General Conclusion. Prospects of the Transcendental-Transcendent Categorial Synthesis 1. Founding Second Generation Speculative Philosophy 2. Nature of Einaic, Second Generation Scientific, Categories 3. Einaic Ontology: Blend of Einaiology and General Ontology 4. Cosmological-Theological Prospects 5. New Einaic Sense and Universality of ‘Category’ Appendix. Beyond Heidegger’s Anthropologized Being: Nomic- Nominal, Verbal-Processual, Universal “To Be” in Einaic Ontology Bibliography Index