Background
Browning, Grayson Douglas was born on March 7, 1929 in Seminole, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Grayson Douglas and Dorothea (Cook) Browning.
(Process philosophy is fundamentally a metaphysical positi...)
Process philosophy is fundamentally a metaphysical position. Its doctrine is that the universe is essentially to be understood not as substance and causality, as in the Cartesian tradition, but as process and creativity. Since the publication of the first edition of Philosophers of Process, interest in American Pragmatism - particularly Peirce and Dewey - has continued to grow. In addition, there is another group whose interest is more straightforwardly metaphysical. The interests of this group tend toward the works of Whitehead, Hartshorne, and sometimes Bergson and James. Between these two groups there are quite a number of philosophers interested in teaching process metaphysics on both the undergraduate and graduate level. This book is intended to fill the need for a single volume of primary texts in this area.
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( In this challenging study in metaphilosophy, Douglas Br...)
In this challenging study in metaphilosophy, Douglas Browning makes a case for viewing ontology as a legitimate and viable philosophical pursuit. Beginning with a sustained analysis of the process of attempting to construct a system that is true of the whole of reality, he proceeds to focus upon the issues of the need for and availability of controls upon speculative construction. He concludes by arguing for the importance of one such speculative control, namely, an appeal to the structural traits of the practical stratum of our lives. In the course of his discussion Browning also develops original theories of stances, appearing, and the general structure of theoretical investigation. The book is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to consideration of the overall shape of the ontological enterprise as a process of moving from the pole of initial ontological questioning toward the pole of the provision of an acceptable system. While each of these two poles is discussed in turn in some detail, it is the mediating process of inquiry and construction, of "doing" ontology, to which Browning devotes most of his attention. His examination of this process reveals serious difficulties, one of which, he argues, provides the most serious threat to the acceptability of ontology as a viable project. This difficulty centers on the issue of discovering a manner of access to reality that is sufficiently favored over the others to provide a cue for the constructive imagination. In the second part, Browning proposes a way of overcoming this difficulty. After presenting a general argument for the primacy of the practical stance in our lives, he makes and defends a number of proposals regarding the general structure of the arena of acting that this stance discloses. The book ends by showing the extent to which an appeal to this structure would ensure, not the success, but the viability of ontological investigation.
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Browning, Grayson Douglas was born on March 7, 1929 in Seminole, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Grayson Douglas and Dorothea (Cook) Browning.
Bachelor of Arts, University Texas, Austin, 1954; Master of Arts, University Texas, Austin, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, Austin, 1958.
Instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor, U. Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1958-1969; visiting instructor, University Texas, Austin, summer 1963; visiting professor, University Texas, Austin, 1969-1971; professor philosophy, University Texas, Austin, since 1971; department chairman philosophy, University Texas, Austin, 1972-1976.
( In this challenging study in metaphilosophy, Douglas Br...)
(In this challenging study in metaphilosophy Douglas Brown...)
(Process philosophy is fundamentally a metaphysical positi...)
Served with United States Air Force, 1948-1952. Member American Philosophical Association, Southwestern Philosophical Association (president 1977), Florida Philosophical Association (president 1967), Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (president 1972), Society for Advancement of America Philosophy.
Married Becky Beck, July 15, 1972. Children by previous marriage– Tony Louis, Luke Matthew, Lauren Beth.