origin of “object-oriented philosophy”

THIS Wikipedia article says that the term first appeared in my dissertation. I read it this morning and said “that’s wrong,” because I knew that I first used the term in September 1999 for the lecture of the same name that now appears in Towards Speculative Realism.

In order to prove this, I opened up the AppleWorks version of my dissertation, which I still have on my hard drive.

And… I was wrong. The term *is* used in the dissertation. I was sure I didn’t add it until the book version, but that turns out to be incorrect.

“object-oriented philosophy” appears in the Introduction and in Chapter 3. The Introduction file shows no modifications since February 13, 1999, so I was using it by no later than that date.

Not that it matters to anyone but me, but I’m always curious about how memory can play tricks on you, which is why written records are so important for a variety of purposes in one’s life.