Object-Oriented Ontology as an Alternative for Ontological Functionalism and Correlationism

This paper is devoted to the analysis of speculative realism and is a natural continuation of my coursework. In the first year of my Master's degree my work was devoted to the analysis of Quentin Meillassoux's ontological constructions, I formulated some requirements for ontological constructions in general, which cannot be ignored when such a rigid and unambiguous critical position towards correlationism has been formulated. I see the overcoming of correlationism as an important task for contemporary philosophy, so I have continued to work on analysing the ontological constructions of speculative realists, and in this paper, in addition to presenting a reconstruction of Quentin Meillassoux's ontological programme, Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology will also be considered. Once these ontological programs have been analysed, I intend to reformulate the problem of correlationism into a broader problem, the problem of ontological functionalism, and to suggest potential solutions to it using the results of the analysis of the Object-Oriented Ontology. The problem of ontological functionalism is very acute because it is a superordinate problem to the problem of correlationism. In the most general form, it can be formulated as the primacy of some relation over some being. Indeed, correlationism is only a special case of it, since it focuses on the problem of access. In this regard, I believe that solving the higher-order problem will get rid of correlationism as well.