Revisiting the Notion of Vicarious Cause: Allure, Metaphor, and Realism in Object-Oriented Ontology
We revisit the notion of vicarious causation in Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) in order to first show that Harman has articulated two iterations of his account that are in tension with one another; one is found in his earlier paper “On Vicarious Causation,” while the other is contain...
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| description | We revisit the notion of vicarious causation in Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) in order to first show that Harman has articulated two iterations of his account that are in tension with one another; one is found in his earlier paper “On Vicarious Causation,” while the other is contained in his later writings following the publication of Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything. This involves a critical assessment of his developing theory of metaphor in a way that encourages sympathetic revision in the service of improving his non-correlationist view of intra-objective relations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b6c5fa87cf7e4d828b362fc21d0140112025-08-20T02:18:11ZengDe GruyterOpen Philosophy2543-88752024-11-017129030410.1515/opphil-2024-0047Revisiting the Notion of Vicarious Cause: Allure, Metaphor, and Realism in Object-Oriented OntologyCogburn Jon0Young Niki1Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Louisiana State University, Louisiana, United StatesDepartment of Philosophy, University of Malta, Msida, MaltaWe revisit the notion of vicarious causation in Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) in order to first show that Harman has articulated two iterations of his account that are in tension with one another; one is found in his earlier paper “On Vicarious Causation,” while the other is contained in his later writings following the publication of Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything. This involves a critical assessment of his developing theory of metaphor in a way that encourages sympathetic revision in the service of improving his non-correlationist view of intra-objective relations.https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2024-0047graham harmanobject-oriented ontologyvicarious causationontologymetaphysicscausality |
| spellingShingle | Cogburn Jon Young Niki Revisiting the Notion of Vicarious Cause: Allure, Metaphor, and Realism in Object-Oriented Ontology Open Philosophy graham harman object-oriented ontology vicarious causation ontology metaphysics causality |
| title | Revisiting the Notion of Vicarious Cause: Allure, Metaphor, and Realism in Object-Oriented Ontology |
| title_full | Revisiting the Notion of Vicarious Cause: Allure, Metaphor, and Realism in Object-Oriented Ontology |
| title_fullStr | Revisiting the Notion of Vicarious Cause: Allure, Metaphor, and Realism in Object-Oriented Ontology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Revisiting the Notion of Vicarious Cause: Allure, Metaphor, and Realism in Object-Oriented Ontology |
| title_short | Revisiting the Notion of Vicarious Cause: Allure, Metaphor, and Realism in Object-Oriented Ontology |
| title_sort | revisiting the notion of vicarious cause allure metaphor and realism in object oriented ontology |
| topic | graham harman object-oriented ontology vicarious causation ontology metaphysics causality |
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