scholarly journals What’s real is immaterial: What are we doing with new materialism?

Aporia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
David Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Healthcare Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Abusive Relationship ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

New materialism is emerging as one of the most signifi cant developments in healthcare research in recent years, offering radical new ways to rethink our critical relationship with forms, matter, objects and things. As with any new paradigm, it can take some time for the limitations of the approach to become clear. In this article I examine some of these limitations, focusing particularly on new materialist defi nitions of objects and the ontology of affect. Drawing on the recent work of Graham Harman and Timothy Morton, I argue that new materialism fails the ‘fl at ontology test’, and reinforces the kinds of idealism that it purports to critique. Object Oriented Ontology, on the other hand, may allow us to shape a radical new ethics of objects, using that to transform our abusive relationship with the ecosystem, disturb raditional enlightenment binaries and hierarchies, and to put aside human hubris.

Weird Allies? Kierkegaard and Object-Oriented Ontology

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 393-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
The Self ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indirect Communication ◽  
Conceptual Apparatus ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

AbstractThis paper examines the connection between Kierkegaard’s philosophy of existence and Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology. The claim is that Harman’s position provides a conceptual apparatus that can beneficially address some basic ontological points in Kierkegaard about actuality, the self and the reality of individual subsisting mind-independent entities. On the other hand, Kierkegaard’s emphasis on the human self as a place situated in existence can provide a supplement to Harman’s realism which implicitly relies on topological notions. If we define an entity, in a broad sense of the term, as something in its own right irreducible to its being-in-a-relation, but we do not want to end up in a frozen universe of isolated monads, we must revisit the notion of relationality in terms of vicarious causation (Harman) or indirect communication (Kierkegaard).

Faith and Goodness

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 167-191
Author(s):  
Eleonore Stump
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alvin Plantinga ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Richard Swinburne ◽  
The Relationship

Recent work on the subject of faith has tended to focus on the epistemology of religious belief, considering such issues as whether beliefs held in faith are rational and how they may be justified. Richard Swinburne, for example, has developed an intricate explanation of the relationship between the propositions of faith and the evidence for them. Alvin Plantinga, on the other hand, has maintained that belief in God may be properly basic, that is, that a belief that God exists can be part of the foundation of a rational noetic structure. This sort of work has been useful in drawing attention to significant issues in the epistemology of religion, but these approaches to faith seem to me also to deepen some long-standing perplexities about traditional Christian views of faith.

IV.—On some Freshwater Mollusca from the Pliocene Deposits of East Anglia

1911 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 401-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Kennard ◽  
B. B. Woodward
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Correct Determination

Non-marine Mollusca are extremely rare in the Pliocene deposits of this country, which fact must always be a matter of regret to the Palæontologist, since they are of the utmost importance in connexion with the origin of our present fauna. Unfortunately, in addition to their rarity, they are often decorticated or fragmentary, whence no doubt the differences in opinion as to their correct determination. A re-examination of all the available material has convinced us that there is still much to be done before it will be possible to reach finality. In these matters so much depends on one's standpoint. If one starts with the preconceived idea that the Pliocene shells must be identical with the recent forms, it is easy enough to identify them, even if one has to go to Japan or Greenland to find its present habitat. If, on the other hand, one considers it better to study carefully the results of recent work on other branches of the fauna, it is obvious that different results will be arrived at. Hence we are quite prepared for any differences of opinion as to the correctness of our views or the wisdom of creating four new species, as we now venture to do.

Realism and Materialism

2018 ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
Thomas Nail
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Transcendental Idealism ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
The Real ◽  
Transcendental Realism ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

This chapter lays out a methodology of transcendental realism and new materialism based on motion. Transcendental realism is the study of the real minimal ontological conditions for the actual emergence of the historical present. The purpose of this method is to give a description of what previous being must at least be like given that it appears as it does today: in motion. The chapter offers critiques of constructivism, empiricism, metaphysics, and transcendental idealism. It also offers a critique of vitalist new materialism, negative materialism, object-oriented ontology, formalism, and all ahistorical methods of thinking about matter and materialism. It concludes with a theory of “process materialism.”

On IoT and Its Integration With Cloud Computing

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-64
Author(s):  
Iram Abrar ◽  
Sahil Nazir Pottoo ◽  
Faheem Syeed Masoodi ◽  
Alwi Bamhdi
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Storage Capacity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Computational Power ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Other Hand

Internet of things witnessed rapid growth in the last decade and is considered to be a promising field that plays an all-important role in every aspect of modern-day life. However, the growth of IoT is seriously hindered by factors like limited storage, communication capabilities, and computational power. On the other hand, cloud has the potential to support a large amount of data as it has massive storage capacity and can perform complex computations. Considering the tremendous potential of these two technologies and the manner in which they complement one another, they have been integrated to form what is commonly referred to as the cloud of things (CoT). This integration is beneficial as the resulting system is more robust, intelligent, powerful, and offers promising solutions to the users. However, the new paradigm (CoT) is faced with a significant number of challenges that need to be addressed. This chapter discusses in detail various challenges like reliability, latency, scalability, heterogeneity, power consumption, standardization, etc. faced by the cloud of things.

The false dichotomy of imagery

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel J. T. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Activity Theory ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Active Perception ◽  
Popular Belief ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Description Theory ◽  
False Dichotomy

Pylyshyn's critique is powerful. Pictorial theories of imagery fail. On the other hand, the symbolic description theory he manifestly still favors also fails, lacking the semantic foundation necessary to ground imagery's intentionality and consciousness. However, contrary to popular belief, these two theory types do not exhaust available options. Recent work on embodied, active perception supports the alternative perceptual activity theory of imagery.

scholarly journals C. S. Peirce on the dynamic object of a sign: From ontology to semiotics and back

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-437
Author(s):  
Helmut Pape
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dynamic Object ◽  
Contingent Identity ◽  
Process Ontology ◽  
Relational Properties ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Structural Account ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
Normative Role

That reality, and in particular the (dynamic) objects of signs, are independent of our thoughts or other representations is a crucial thesis of Peirce’s realism. On the other hand, his semiotics implies the claim that all reality and all real objects are real for us only because of the signs we use. Do these two claims contradict, even exclude, each other? I will argue that both Peirce’s metaphysics and his semiotics provide a natural via media: a structural account of the openness of processes, featuring transitive relations, connects process ontology implicit in his evolutionary metaphysics and the relational, quasi-inferential features embodied in interpretational sequences of signs. It is shown that Peirce’s notion of a sign, its normative role and his account of the directional force of objects implies a sort of logical causality that supports the unity of objects. In this way sign sequences are able to relate flexibly sign use with contextually specified independent objects. That is to say, relational properties of object-oriented chains of interpretations provide sign users with a flexible, fallibilistic instrument able to capture by contingent identity relations (teridentity) of the identity of objects in changing situations.Includes: Comment by Francesco Bellucci (pp. 433–437).

scholarly journals The effect on the blood sugar of fish of various conditions including removal of the principal islets (isletectomy)

1925 ◽  
Vol 98 (687) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Blood Sugar ◽  
Islets Of Langerhans ◽  
Pancreatic Tissue ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gradual Decline ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Bony Fishes

In fishes the sugar of the blood and the glycogen of the liver have been found to vary considerably even in individuals of the same species, and still more so in those of different species. Practically nothing is known definitely of the causes for these variations, and this we consider an important problem to investigate, especially since light might thereby be thrown on the nature of the metabolism of carbohydrates in cold-blooded animals in which the intermediary stages proceed more slowly than in warm-blooded animals. Our interest was aroused in the behaviour of the blood sugar of fishes for other reasons as well. In certain of the bony fishes (Teleostei) the islets of Langerhans exist as definite glands which have come to be known as the “principal islets.” Being more or less separated from the pancreatic tissue itself, these can readily be excised, thus making it possible, by examination of the blood sugar, to determine whether a diabetic condition can be induced by isletectomy without removal of any of the pancreas proper. It was of interest also to see whether insulin can affect the blood sugar. Before such investigations could be undertaken it was necessary to know exactly the degree to which the blood sugar of different fishes of the same species may vary independently of such an operation. Lang and Macleod (1), in confirmation of earlier work by Diamare (2) and of Bierry and Fandard (3), found that there are usually only traces of sugar in the blood of the Elasmobranchi, such as Squalus (dog-fish), but that considerable amounts may occur in the blood of representative Teleostei, such as Cyprinus (carp). In the latter fish it was also noted that the amounts may vary from 0·058 to 0·300 per cent. Fandard and Ranc (4) have stated that the blood sugar in fishes is peculiarly susceptible to asphyxial conditions, but so far as we have been able to find they have published no details of their observations. The most important recent work is that of E. L. Scott (5), who has observed the blood sugar in Mustelis canis , the fish prior to the observations being kept in traps which were exposed to tide water and, during them, in shallow tanks. The percentage of oxygen was also frequently determined in the water of the tanks. It was found that no blood sugar, or only traces, could be detected in six out of eight individuals, which are described as having been in a subnormal condition. On the other hand, when the fish were asphyxiated by keeping them out of water for varying periods of time, the blood sugar rose rapidly, to attain, in two specimens, a maximum of about 0·240 per cent, after four minutes, followed by a gradual decline, so that a level of 0·032 was reached in one specimen after 15 minutes. The degree of variability in the results is, however, very great, and they do not seem to us to justify the conclusion that the sugar rises within a few minutes and then falls again during the asphyxial period.

scholarly journals Menulis, Komunikasi dan Humaniora

Humaniora ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Dominikus Tulasi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Order ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Spirit ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Verbal Process ◽  
Other Hand

This article is a potrait of constructing frame of mind in writing, communication and human being. Communication is a process of transforming idea to the other in which the idea can be formed through encoding process to be reformed and reconstructed in decoding process by receiver. The new order framework is the new paradigm of mind. Further more, writing is an action to pour idea to be sedimented and embeded in the form of documented written. Related to writing, communication means transfering message from sender to the other either verbal and or non-verbal process. On the other hand, humaniora is a realm of meaning within human spirit to be humanized and civilized by oneself through education. Educating human being is also a teaching and learning process toward oneself-personalization. The personalization is so called humanization process.  

Railroads and Regulation, 1877–1916: Conspiracy or Public Interest?

1967 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Harbeson
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Federal Regulation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Railroad System

Professor Gabriel Kolko in his recent work, Railroads and Regulation, 1877–1916, presents an interpretation or the origin, motivation, and consequences of the movement for federal regulation of railroads which differs in important respects from that which has hitherto been generally accepted. Thus it has generally been held that railway regulation was a response to the demands of farmers and other shippers for protection against monopolistic and discriminatory tactics on the part of the railroads and that regulation was bitterly resisted by the latter. Kolko, on the other hand, holds that regulation was actually welcomed by the railroads as a means of securing the rate and profit stability which they were unable to maintain by their own action, and that “the railroads, not the farmers and shippers, were the most important single advocates of federal regulation from 1877 to 1916” (p. 3). He concedes that “the movement for federal regulation of the railroad system was not, in any strict sense, deliberately initiated by the railroads’ (p. 20) and that legislation could not have been passed without shipper support, but points out that shippers were either inarticulate or divided with respect to the kind of regulation, if any, desired, and that the railroads were always able to secure the support of enough shipper groups to insure passage of the legislation which they favored. Furthermore, the railroads welcomed federal as opposed to state regulation, since they regarded the latter as punitive and restrictive and less amenable to their influence than federal regulation.

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