{"id":164,"date":"2020-12-07T02:25:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T02:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=164"},"modified":"2020-12-07T14:53:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T14:53:34","slug":"ontology-epistemology-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Ontology, Epistemology, and Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Science and technology studies, esp. actor-network theory, complexity theory, &#8220;cosmopolitics,&#8221; &amp; the politics of ontology <\/em><\/li><li><em>Psychology, sociology, &amp; politics of knowledge; Anomalistics &amp; conspiracy cultures; &#8220;Disinformation&#8221; and the global political &amp; cultural economy\/ecology of media<\/em><\/li><li><em>The philosophies of A. N. Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, Gilles Deleuze, immanent naturalism, Buddhism (Tiantai, Chan\/Zen), Daoism, anarchism &amp; radical democracy<\/em><\/li><li><em>Contemplative practices and self-cultivation, or &#8220;philosophy as a way of life,&#8221; from the ancients (Greece\/Rome\/India\/China) to today<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"166\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?attachment_id=166\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2020\/12\/100_0497-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;KODAK DX4530 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1286606683&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0014285714285714&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"100_0497\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2020\/12\/100_0497-scaled.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2020\/12\/100_0497-scaled.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2020\/12\/100_0497-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166\" width=\"420\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2020\/12\/100_0497-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2020\/12\/100_0497-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2020\/12\/100_0497-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2020\/12\/100_0497-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2020\/12\/100_0497-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2020\/12\/100_0497-648x432.jpg 648w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2020\/12\/100_0497-288x192.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a range of more general, philosophical interests that underpin my  empirically oriented research. These constellate at the intersections of ontology, epistemology, and the ethics and aesthetics of living &#8212; or, in lay terms, of what we know about the nature of the world (ontology), how we know it (epistemology), and its implications for how we should live.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While these figure in much of my writing on environmental\/ecological and cultural themes, they sometimes veer off into other areas. Two of these are <em>anomalistics<\/em>, or the study of scientific &#8220;anomalies&#8221; and how they are made sense of both by scientists and non-scientists, and the <em>ecology of knowledge and information<\/em> in the rapidly changing system of global media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/\">Immanence<\/a> (especially the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/mediaspace\/\">MediaSpace<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/spiritmatter\/\">SpiritMatter<\/a> categories) is probably the best place to find my writing on these two topics, though they find their way into some published writing, including the books <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Claiming-Sacred-Ground-Pilgrims-Glastonbury\/dp\/0253338999\">Claiming Sacred Ground<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/punctumbooks.com\/titles\/shadowing-the-anthropocene-eco-realism-for-turbulent-times\/\">Shadowing the Anthropocene<\/a>, some of my interviews (see side-bar), and a few pieces like these:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/41491007\/Process_Relational_Philosophy_as_a_Way_of_Life_Toward_an_Eco_Ethico_Aesthetics_of_Existence\">Process-Relational Philosophy as a Way of Life: Toward an Eco-Ethico-Aesthetics of Existence<\/a>, in Ponce de Le\u00e3o, Mendes, and Lira, eds.,&nbsp;<em>Ecocriticism<\/em>, 2018.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/37723867\/Occult_geographies_or_the_promises_of_spectres_Scientific_knowledge_political_trust_and_religious_vision_at_the_margins_of_the_modern\">Occult geographies, or the promises of spectres: Scientific knowledge, political trust, and religious vision at the margins of the modern,<\/a> in Stenner and Weber, eds., <em>Orpheus&#8217; Glance: Selected Papers on Process Psychology. The Fontareches Meetings, 2002-2017<\/em> (Chromatika, 2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/25740448\/Pagan_ish_Senses_and_Sensibilities\">) <\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/25740448\/Pagan_ish_Senses_and_Sensibilities\">Pagan(ish) Senses and Sensibilities<\/a>, <em>The Pomegranate<\/em> 17 (2015) (an autobiographical piece)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: <em>Megalithic stone circle of Almendres, Portugal. A. Ivakhiv.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science and technology studies, esp. actor-network theory, complexity theory, &#8220;cosmopolitics,&#8221; &amp; the politics of ontology Psychology, sociology, &amp; politics of knowledge; Anomalistics &amp; conspiracy cultures; &#8220;Disinformation&#8221; and the global political &amp; cultural economy\/ecology of media The philosophies of A. N. Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, Gilles Deleuze, immanent naturalism, Buddhism (Tiantai, Chan\/Zen), Daoism, anarchism &amp; radical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontology, Epistemology, and Practice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","author_link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?author=99"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}