Object, Reduction, and Emergence: An Object-Oriented View
Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) is a contemporary form of realism concerned with the investigation of “objects” broadly construed. It may be characterised in terms of a metaphysical pluralism to the extent that it recognises infinitely many different kinds of emergent entities, and this fact in turn...
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| description | Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) is a contemporary form of realism concerned with the investigation of “objects” broadly construed. It may be characterised in terms of a metaphysical pluralism to the extent that it recognises infinitely many different kinds of emergent entities, and this fact in turn leads to a number of questions concerning the nature of objects and emergence in OOO: what is the precise meaning of an emergent entity in OOO? How has emergence been denied throughout the history of Western thought? Is there a specific object-oriented account of emergence? What is the causal mechanism which provides the conditions of possibility for the generation of emergent entities? In this article, I aim to answer all these questions by constructing the first extensive account of real emergence in the context of Object-Oriented Ontology, and I also seek to tie this analysis to the notion of “vicarious” or indirect causation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-004ec597e8284de0a753564c37e2b7682022-12-22T03:13:52ZengDe GruyterOpen Philosophy2543-88752021-06-0141839310.1515/opphil-2020-0159Object, Reduction, and Emergence: An Object-Oriented ViewYoung Niki0Department of Philosophy, University of Malta (Junior College), Msida, MaltaObject-Oriented Ontology (OOO) is a contemporary form of realism concerned with the investigation of “objects” broadly construed. It may be characterised in terms of a metaphysical pluralism to the extent that it recognises infinitely many different kinds of emergent entities, and this fact in turn leads to a number of questions concerning the nature of objects and emergence in OOO: what is the precise meaning of an emergent entity in OOO? How has emergence been denied throughout the history of Western thought? Is there a specific object-oriented account of emergence? What is the causal mechanism which provides the conditions of possibility for the generation of emergent entities? In this article, I aim to answer all these questions by constructing the first extensive account of real emergence in the context of Object-Oriented Ontology, and I also seek to tie this analysis to the notion of “vicarious” or indirect causation.https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0159object-oriented ontologyemergencereductionismvicarious causation |
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| title | Object, Reduction, and Emergence: An Object-Oriented View |
| title_full | Object, Reduction, and Emergence: An Object-Oriented View |
| title_fullStr | Object, Reduction, and Emergence: An Object-Oriented View |
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| title_short | Object, Reduction, and Emergence: An Object-Oriented View |
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| topic | object-oriented ontology emergence reductionism vicarious causation |
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