Date: 24.05.2019
This WONA seminar was arranged as a reading group seminar in which the WONA members discussed Graham Harman’s ‘An outline of object-oriented philosophy’ (Harman G., ‘An Outline of Object-Oriented Philosophy,’ Science Progress. 2013;96(2):187-199), which also relates to his recently published book Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything (Harman, G. (2018). Object-oriented ontology: A new theory of everything. London: Penguin Random House.)
According to its abstract, the article:
«…summarises the principles of object-oriented philosophy and explains its similarities with, and differences from, the outlook of the natural sciences. Like science, the object-oriented position avoids the notion (quite common in philosophy) that the human-world relation is the ground of all others, such that scientific statements about the world would only be statements about the world as it is for humans. But unlike science, object-oriented metaphysics treats artificial, social, and fictional entities in the same way as natural ones, and also holds that the world can only be known allusively rather than directly.»