| 0. Introduction
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| 1. A New Theory of Everything
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| 1. Why Science Cannot Provide a Theory of Everything
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| 2. Again Physicalism, Smallism, Anti-Fictionalism and Literalism
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| 3. Undermining in the History of Philosophy
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| 4. Overmining in the History of Philosophy
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| 5. Objects and Events
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| 6. Flat Ontology
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| 2. Aesthetics is the Root of All Philosophy
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| 1. Metaphor
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| 2. What Ortega's Essay Teaches Us
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| 3. The Theatricality of Metaphor
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| 4. Five Features of Metaphor
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| 5. Formalism in Aesthetics
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| 6. Formalism in Kant and Beyond
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| 3. Society and Politics
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| 1. Society
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| 2. The American Civil War
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| 3. Politics
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| 4. The Two Major Features of Modern Political Theory
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| 4. Indirect Relations
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| 1. The Tensions in Objects
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| 2. The Fracture in Things
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| 3. Causation
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| 4. Knowledge
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| 5. Meno
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| 6. Other Views on Justified True Belief
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| 7. Justified Untrue Belief
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| 8. Knowledge Without Truth
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| 5. Object-Oriented Ontology and its Rivals
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| 1. Jacques Derrida
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| 2. Michel Foucault
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| 6. Varying Approaches to Object-Oriented Ontology
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| The Core Group with Graham Harman:
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| 1. Ian Bogost
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| 2. Levi R. Bryant
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| 3. Timothy Morton
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| Others:
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| 4. Jane Bennett
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| 5. Tristan Garcia
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| 6. Architecture
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| 7. Object-Oriented Ontology in Overview
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