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New Empiricisms for 21st Century Social Inquiry: Problematic Realisms After the Ontological Turn
Elizabeth DeFreitas
Manchester Metropolitan University
Liz DeFreitas
Posthuman Realisms in the Anthropocene: Techniques for an Empirical Encounter
Elizabeth St. Pierre
University of Georgia
Elizabeth St. Pierre
Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism and Post Qualitative Inquiry
Jerry Rosiek
University of Oregon
Jerry Rosiek
Agential Realism’s Challenge to the Logic of Inference
in Social Inquiry
REPRESENTATION
Posthumanism and Agent Ontologies
Inference
IMPLICATIONS
INFERENCE
Our Book
Forthcoming
January 2021
4 Logics
4 Types of Logic
• Logic is the study of the mathematical properties of formal language systems. Divorces logic from ontology.
• Logic is the study of the semantic features of inference –for example the use of words like “some”, “all,” “and”, “or”.
• Logic is the study of special truths—logical truths—the most general features of all true statements.
• Logic is the study of the most general features of judgment and valuation.
Beyond Reductio ad Absurdum Reasoning
Reductio ad Absurdum
Sorry Sherlock!
The ontological indeterminacy of posthumanism and agential realism violates the two premises on which Reductio arguments depend:
- Principle of Non-Contradiction
- Law of the Excluded Middle
Relational Possibility
Josiah Royce's
System Sigma
Relational Possibility
O-Relations
A More Capacious and Open Ended Logic of Judgment That Begins in Ontological Indeterminacy
Relational Possibility
O-Relation
Relational Possibility
Multiple relations are possible, but not all can be enacted.
Relational Possibility
F-Relations
Relational Possibility
Once a relation is acted upon among multiple possible relational possibilities, then the associated indeterminacy is resolved into particularity, and more familiar rules of inference apply.
O-Relation inferences are the unacknowledged sea upon which most forms of empirical reasoning float.
Ethics
THE BIG QUESTION FOR POSTHUMANIST EMPIRICISM
Aesthetics
A Third Term
How do the selections or cuts in the ontologically indeterminate spaces of inquiry get made?
Politics
Royce's logic system highlights that there must be a "third" term, other than the agents and available possibilities, in terms of which cuts get made--for humans or non-humans.
Metaphysics
Metaphysical Questions
I think this leads to an ontology of future possibilities and their influence on the present.
Futurity
Final Causes
Marek Tesar
University of Auckland
Marek Tesar
New Empiricism
and Pre-Socratic
Western Thought
Aislinn O'Donnell
Maynooth University
Aislin O'Donnell
Archipelagic Thought