Dear Colleagues,
One of you [wretches], assigned me this book <https://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Ontology-New-Theory-Everything/dp/02 41269156/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1530754578&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=Graha m+Harmon+Object+Oriented> for a little light summer reading before I left SF in March. It was a seductive assignment. In the first place, the book is a little book. I LIKE little books. Cheap and easy to carry. In the second place, as I read around in it, I see echoes of Peirce in its monism and realism and fascination with metaphors (aka "signs"?). Every chapter begins in an ingratiating introduction that gives promise of progress in the rational construction of a complex idea. There my praise ends. I have started all the chapters with the greatest of good will and have gotten thoroughly lost in every one. I deeply suspect that whichever one of you [wretches] who assigned it to me has never read it from cover to cover. SO: Will you now do that with me? And will others join? It would be best if we could snare a few philosophers to join us because the author does seem to be rather deeply into philosophy, both post modern and the other kind. It's hard to believe that it has nothing to do with object oriented programing, but it may not. Fess up! NIck Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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