Is the universe processual? Is its reality structural? Metaphysical considerations
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procesual philosophy, structuralism, Rescher, Zubiri, Whitehead, Block Universe, philosophy of cosmologyAbstract
We present a discussion about the philosophies of becoming, of the process, and their ontology. We reflect about the place that a philosophy of the cosmos would have there. Is the Universe a structure? Is it a process? If it is a process, is it deterministic, as sustained by the theory of the block universe? We review some currents, including the one of the late Zubiri, and his structural dynamism, which is well informed by the cosmology of his time. We bring this structuralist view up into the philosophical discourse of the XXI century.
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