[FRIAM] Object Oriented Ontology

[Nick Thompson]

Dear Colleagues, 

 

One of you [wretches], assigned me this book
<https://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Ontology-New-Theory-Everything/dp/02
41269156/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1530754578&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=Graha
m+Harmon+Object+Oriented>  for a little light summer reading before I left
SF in March.  It was a seductive assignment.  In the first place, the book
is a little book.  I LIKE little books.  Cheap and easy to carry.  In the
second place, as I read around in it, I see echoes of Peirce in its monism
and realism and fascination with metaphors (aka "signs"?).  Every chapter
begins in an ingratiating introduction that gives promise of progress in the
rational construction of a complex idea.  

 

There my praise ends.  I have started all the chapters with the greatest of
good will and have gotten thoroughly lost in every one.  

 

I deeply suspect that whichever one of you [wretches] who assigned it to me
has never read it from cover to cover.  

 

SO:    Will you now do that with me?  And will others join?  It would be
best if we could snare a few philosophers to join us because the author does
seem to be rather deeply into philosophy, both post modern and the other
kind.  

 

It's hard to believe that it has nothing to do with object oriented
programing, but it may not. 

 

Fess up!

 

NIck

 

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

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