Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality 论文
2013Open Humanities Press eBooks引用 240
Scientific Research and Philosophical InquirySlime Mold and Myxomycetes ResearchSemantic Web and Ontologies
摘要
Object-oriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in physics since 1900. Causality, argues, Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), is aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in physics, biology, ecology, art, literature and music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality.