In this contribution, I explore the idea that reality is best understood as fundamentally dynamic and interdependent, i.e., processual, bringing together resources from process thought, phenomenology and the Madhyamaka school of Buddhism. I furthermore explore how this view shapes the ways we speak about, investigate, and understand the natural world. What is novel in my approach is that I...
This chapter discusses phenomenological experience introducing phenomenological techniques like reduction and epoché. While the discussion largely remains faithful to Husserl’s texts and provides a close reading of some passages, it does present phenomenology as an encounter, that can be investigated while emphasising various focal points, even after the epoché. The focus of the discussion is...
The final chapter moves fully into speculative metaphysics. After discussing the ontological and conceptual problems that would ensue if ‘nature’ and ‘life’ were used as realist concepts of being, an alternative is introduced, namely ‘becoming existence’. It is discussed as a concept of being able to come to terms both with the becoming and the relational nature of being, without erasing all...