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Graham Harman: Object-Oriented Ontology

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Object-Oriented Ontology (often abbreviated OOO) is a philosophical position holding that objects exist independently of human perception and questioning the central role of the human perspective in traditional philosophy. In metaphysics, object-oriented ontology (OOO) is a 21st-century school influenced by Heidegger that rejects privileging human existence over the existence of nonhuman objects. This contrasts with what is called the “anthropocentrism” of Kant's Copernican revolution, accepted in most other current metaphysics. In most other metaphysics, phenomenal objects are said to conform to the subject's mind and thus become products of human cognition. Object-oriented ontology maintains that objects exist independently of human perception (as Kantian noumena) and are not ontologically exhausted by their relations with humans or other objects. For object-oriented ontologists, all relations, including nonhuman relations, are, Object-oriented ontology is often considered part of speculative realism. This critiques post-Kantian philosophical inquiry's correlation between thought and being, outside which reality cannot be known. However, object-oriented ontology predates speculative realism and makes explicit claims about the nature and equivalence of object relations with which not all speculative realists agree. The term “object-oriented philosophy” was coined by the movement's founder, Graham Harman, in his 1999 doctoral dissertation, “Tool-Being: Elements in a Theory of Objectory.” In 2009, Levi Bryant rephrased Harman's original designation as “object-oriented ontology,” giving the movement its current name. A tree-like description of concepts appearing in knowledge and their relationships. It represents inclusion relationships and constituents of concepts as a hierarchy. Giving concepts attributes and making them explicit clarifies differences in meaning between concepts. #word

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