Modelling What There Is: Ontologising in a Multidimensional World

McCarty, Willard

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%T Modelling What There Is: Ontologising in a Multidimensional World
%A McCarty, Willard
%J Historical Social Research, Supplement
%N 31
%P 33-45
%D 2018
%K Modelling; Multidimensionality; Semantic Stretch
%@ 0963-6784
%~ GESIS
%X The incursion of digital computing machinery into the public sphere and the return of “ontology” from philosophical exile occurred almost simultaneously, circa 1948. In this essay I ask, what do the modelling machine and philosophers’ irreconcilable accounts of “what there is” have to do with each other? Are the ontological pluralism of the former and the multi-centric multi-naturalism of the latter kin? If so, then recent anthropology has much to say to digital humanities.
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