Abstract

MOLINA D’ JESUS, Álvaro Alberto. Ontological foundation of the virtual world from the philosophy of Nicolaï Hartmann. Sophia [online]. 2021, n.31, pp.237-263. ISSN 1390-8626.  https://doi.org/10.17163/soph.n31.2021.09.

The following article presents a philosophical investigation into the ontological shaping of the virtual world. It is a theoretical contribution to the contemporary debate in the philosophy of computation on the ontological characterization of digital computing and its emerging products, as it proposes an approach to this field of study from the philosophical perspective of Nicolaï Hartmann. The main objective of this article is to explain the stratification of the virtual world based on Hartmann’s ontological theory of strata and categories. To achieve this goal, a critical review of the state of the art of the philosophical ontology of virtuality was carried out. Then we proceeded to present a stratification and categorization proposal called ‘The virtual world factory’ which is a hermeneutic ontology of digital virtuality based on Hartmann’s postulates. The main conclusions reached are: i) The emergence of virtual world reality is constituted of the same strata that make up the sphere of real-world knowledge: material, organic, psychic and social. ii) Virtual reality is a product of computation that occurs in the sphere of knowledge in which there is intervention of the ideal sphere and the sphere of the real world.

Keywords : Philosophy; hermeneutics; ontology; Nicolaï Harmann; virtual reality; digital technology.

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