By way of an example, both an individual car and each of its parts would each be considered objects within this particular framework, thereby resisting the claim of an ontological ascendency of the car qua emergent whole over the manifold components which compose it. Yet OOO is also committed to a “flat” – rather than “hierarchical” – ontology, namely the view that all objects are equally objects, such that one cannot create an a-priori “onto-taxonomical” distinction based on different classes of entities. It maintains that “objects are the root of all philosophy,” and is therefore a form of “neutral monism” to the extent that it recognises one and only one reality, namely that of objects.
Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) may be described as a thriving contemporary and innovative form of “Speculative Realism” dedicated to the investigation of “objects” broadly construed. Keywords: Object-Oriented Ontology emergence reductionism vicarious causation
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