Superficiality and Representation: Adding Aesthetics to “Knowledge without Truth”

This article has two parts. The first one compares the ontological and epistemological implications of two main philosophical stances on how reality relates to appearance. I call the first group the “plane of superficiality,” where reality and appearance are the same; there is no gap between what a...

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Autor principal:	Vaillo Gonzalo
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Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	reality appearance aesthetics knowledge object-oriented ontology flat representativity Philosophy (General) B1-5802
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:99af2a55585a4b38bdeef01953b8376b2021-12-05T14:11:00ZSuperficiality and Representation: Adding Aesthetics to “Knowledge without Truth”2543-887510.1515/opphil-2020-0150https://doaj.org/article/99af2a55585a4b38bdeef01953b8376b2021-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0150https://doaj.org/toc/2543-8875This article has two parts. The first one compares the ontological and epistemological implications of two main philosophical stances on how reality relates to appearance. I call the first group the “plane of superficiality,” where reality and appearance are the same; there is no gap between what a thing is and how it manifests itself. I call the second group “volume of representation,” in which reality is beyond appearances; there is an insurmountable gap between the thing and its phenomena. The second part of the article focuses on Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) as the second group’s contemporary position. Within the OOO epistemological model of “knowledge without truth,” Harman’s schema of the observer’s participation in the object’s knowledge production is questioned. Alternatively, based on the notion proposed here of “flat representativity” in which each appearance is equally valuable to represent different aspects of the object, I argue for the full spectrum of the sensual as the basis for “knowledge without truth.” In particular, the aesthetic method, excluded from Harman’s concerns about knowledge, is suggested as another contribution to the episteme.Vaillo GonzaloDe Gruyterarticlerealityappearanceaestheticsknowledgeobject-oriented ontologyflat representativityPhilosophy (General)B1-5802ENOpen Philosophy, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 36-57 (2021)
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description	This article has two parts. The first one compares the ontological and epistemological implications of two main philosophical stances on how reality relates to appearance. I call the first group the “plane of superficiality,” where reality and appearance are the same; there is no gap between what a thing is and how it manifests itself. I call the second group “volume of representation,” in which reality is beyond appearances; there is an insurmountable gap between the thing and its phenomena. The second part of the article focuses on Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) as the second group’s contemporary position. Within the OOO epistemological model of “knowledge without truth,” Harman’s schema of the observer’s participation in the object’s knowledge production is questioned. Alternatively, based on the notion proposed here of “flat representativity” in which each appearance is equally valuable to represent different aspects of the object, I argue for the full spectrum of the sensual as the basis for “knowledge without truth.” In particular, the aesthetic method, excluded from Harman’s concerns about knowledge, is suggested as another contribution to the episteme.
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title	Superficiality and Representation: Adding Aesthetics to “Knowledge without Truth”
title_short	Superficiality and Representation: Adding Aesthetics to “Knowledge without Truth”
title_full	Superficiality and Representation: Adding Aesthetics to “Knowledge without Truth”
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Superficiality and Representation: Adding Aesthetics to “Knowledge without Truth”

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