Hi Tom, did you work on Graham Harman's Object Oriented Philosophy ? He only uses OOP as an inspiration, as far as I know.
On 17.03.2011, at 14:09, Tom Betts wrote:
> Yo,
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> Programming paradigms are often quite close to philosophical frameworks.
> Ive been looking at this in my PHD, but notions of OO, Encapsulation,
> virtualisation and so on have pretty strong paralells in ontology.
> Theres even a newish movement in philosophy called
> ObjectOrientatedOntology
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> peas
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> On 16 March 2011 09:25, alex <alex_at_idoia.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> I am looking for references to support the idea behind which the act of programming :
>> - help to become and stay conscious of the virtual environment, of its possibilities and of its limits,
>> - help to build a "self" as a child would do when starting to talk and communicate with others,
>> - help to some other social progress I guess,
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>> If you agree or disagree or would like to bring your own view on the social benefits of programming as a general practice or in a particular context, please do so.
>> Trying to tie your thinking to some theoretical references would help me better as I would like to do a paper on the subject and would very much like to quote some ideas from the livecode community if it can be more than just a mere personal feeling.
>>
>> Thanks for your valuable input.
>> Alex
>>
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