Filosofía orientada a los objetos y la comprensión de las realidades científicas

Paloma García Díaz

doi:10.5565/rev/athenead/v11n1.829

Object-oriented philosophy and the comprehension of scientific realities

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Paloma García Díaz Universidad de Granada

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Abstract

In this essay I focus on Graham Harman’s Prince of Networks, the first treatise entirely devoted to address the metaphysics of Bruno Latour. I explain how Harman highlights the philosophical roots and principles of latourian object-oriented philosophy. Furthermore, I analyze how Harman emphasizes both a new secular occasionalism as well as the new form of realism within Latour’s conception of reality featured as relationism. Besides, I also stress that Harman does not only defend the philosophy of Latour enthusiastically. This philosopher compares his own metaphysical commitments and his fourfold theory of reality to the one-fold theory found at Latour’s philosophy. Finally, I assess Harman’s review of Bruno Latour’s work and I argue that some problems within Latour’s conception of reality are better understood when they happen to be explained in terms of the philosophy of science. I tackle briefly this task in what concerns the very comprehension of Latour’s occasionalism.

Keywords

Object-oriented Philosophy, Secular Occasionalism, Relationism, Fourfold Theory, Onefold Theory

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Author Biography

Paloma García Díaz, Universidad de Granada

Paloma García Díaz holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Granada. She is member of the Research Group HUM 828 “Peace and Conflicts in the Contemporary World” at the Institute of Peace and Conflicts , University of Granada.