Hi all This is a must read for MOQers and is a free book download from Paul Levi Bryant, The Democracy of Objects:
http://openhumanitiespress.org/democracy-of-objects.html It sets out a non-dualistic, anti-correlationist but realist alternative ontology to SOM. So it is very much related to the MOQ project and aims. For Bryant objects is a wider term than mere naturalistic objects and sounds to me very similar to SQ. It criticises all post modern philosophy for its anthropocentrism and I think these arguments apply to the MOQ too, I think Pirsig offered a prize for anyone who could convince him the MOQ was wrong, if the MOQ is non-realist this may be time to get out his cheque book. Bryant apart from a few possible ideas does not get DQ in full but that should not put you off the relevance of what he does have to say, you will find the scope of his book very close to the discussions at this forum, very perspective 2 stuff, Bryant ignores perspective 1 too much I would suggest but is nonetheless fascinating clear and well argued, better than I can do, if you want to open your thinking up or match your views to a worthy adversary you have to read this, it is free too. Well that is bye from me for the time being, things seem too bogged down around here to interest me much these days, but thanks to Paul again for some great posts, and the non-realist folks I enjoyed the discussion. All the best David Morey Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
