Living and Nonliving Occasionalism

Author:

Weir Simon1

Affiliation:

1. School of Architecture, Design & Planning, University of Sydney , Sydney , Australia

Abstract

Abstract Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology has employed a variant of occasionalist causation since 2002, with sensual objects acting as the mediators of causation between real objects. While the mechanism for living beings creating sensual objects is clear, how nonliving objects generate sensual objects is not. This essay sets out an interpretation of occasionalism where the mediating agency of nonliving contact is the virtual particles of nominally empty space. Since living, conscious, real objects need to hold sensual objects as sub-components, but nonliving objects do not, this leads to an explanation of why consciousness, in Object-Oriented Ontology, might be described as doubly withdrawn: a sensual sub-component of a withdrawn real object.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Philosophy

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