Essays on William James, Alfred N. Whitehead and Jakob von Uexküll

Experience, Process, Meaning

Arthur Araujo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

255 Seiten

2026 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5939-0 (ISBN)

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This collection of essays highlights a triangulation between the respective works of William James, Alfred N. Whitehead, and Jakob von Uexküll. As the result of the author's research on these three authors, the essays may interest a diverse audience not only in philosophy, particularly philosophy of mind and epistemology, but also in biosemiotics and ecological psychology. Considered a central concept throughout all the essays, "meaning" represents the point of triangulation between James, Whitehead, and Uexküll. Unlike the main trends of thought throughout the 20th century (phenomenology, hermeneutics, and analytic philosophy), the author explores the notion of meaning as a process: a dynamic process that unfolds in certain contexts and forms of both non-human and human life. Thus, to the extent that the author understands meaning as a process of transition between the non-living and the living, meaning becomes the central element of these essays, from which the following maxim emerges: where there is life, there is meaning (and conversely).

Arthur Araujo holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2001). He is Professor at the Federal University of Espirito Santo, Department of Philosophy (Brazil) and a founding member of (2016) and former Coordinator of Semiotics and Pragmatism Group Work at the Brazilian Association of Postgraduate in Philosophy (ANPOF). His teaching focuses on the following fields: Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Biology. Topics and authors of interest include: Pragmatism (William James), Biosemiotics and Semiotics (Uexküll and Peirce), Philosophy of Ordinary Language (Ryle, Austin and Wittgenstein), and Evolution and Organisms (Darwin, Uexküll and Whitehead).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2026
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	1-0364-5939-X / 103645939X
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5939-0 / 9781036459390
Zustand	Neuware