The word ontology comes up a lot in the fields I work in (loosely speaking, the environmental humanities and social sciences), especially among scholars grappling with cultural differences and “decolonial” thinking. Here’s a crack at a 5-minute introduction to it for newbies. Ontology is commonly defined as something like “the philosophical study of being” or […]
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Ontology 101
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Alice in Wonderland, Bruno Latour, factish, Jesus, Ontology, Pere Ubu, process-relational ontology, social constructivism, the Red King on February 9, 2024 | 5 Comments »
For a moratorium on “constructivism”
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged biology, biosemiotics, constructionism, constructivism, ecology, social constructivism on April 30, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I’d like to call a moratorium on the use of the word “constructivism” (or “constructionism”) to refer only to social constructivism. (This post was prompted by Tim Morton’s Object-Oriented Strategies for Ecological Art, but his point there is somewhat differently directed and mine addresses a more general issue that can still be found in a […]
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