Tina Rock
In her research Dr. Tina Rock struggles with the old ontological question of what it means when we say that something is. While being has often been understood as some form of unchanging existence she is more interested in understanding being as becoming. So she is asking whether the world we live in is to be thought of as a complex of merely causally interrelated building blocks or as organically connected, moving, changing and developing? This interest also relates to the question of the role of science in our understanding of reality. If reality is fundamentally organically structured and developing, shouldn’t we then look to the life sciences in order to understand the world we live in and not towards physics? This conviction has led to her interest in philosophy of nature and biophilosophy.
Her work is influenced mainly by Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, the method of phenomenology (esp. Husserl and the late Heidegger) and, of course, Aristotle’s Metaphysics.
Before coming to Dundee she worked and taught at the University of Kassel (Germany) and the University of Innsbruck (Austria).
Dr. Tina Röck
School of Humanities - Tower Extension
University of Dundee
149 Nethergate
Dundee, DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK
In her research Dr. Tina Rock struggles with the old ontological question of what it means when we say that something is. While being has often been understood as some form of unchanging existence she is more interested in understanding being as becoming. So she is asking whether the world we live in is to be thought of as a complex of merely causally interrelated building blocks or as organically connected, moving, changing and developing? This interest also relates to the question of the role of science in our understanding of reality. If reality is fundamentally organically structured and developing, shouldn’t we then look to the life sciences in order to understand the world we live in and not towards physics? This conviction has led to her interest in philosophy of nature and biophilosophy.
Her work is influenced mainly by Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, the method of phenomenology (esp. Husserl and the late Heidegger) and, of course, Aristotle’s Metaphysics.
Before coming to Dundee she worked and taught at the University of Kassel (Germany) and the University of Innsbruck (Austria).
Dr. Tina Röck
School of Humanities - Tower Extension
University of Dundee
149 Nethergate
Dundee, DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK
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