Anthropomorphism

Like “crickets” and “nothing to see here, move along,” the charge of anthropomorphism is oft repeated in the blogosphere. This comment I wrote on a post of Levi's just now was so good (he said modestly), and I feel so passionately about this, that I thought I'd reproduce it here:

There’s nothing wrong with a bit of anthropormorphism. Indeed according to OOO that’s what we can’t help doing. Pencils pencilmorph everything in the same way.

Furthermore, as I argue in The Ecological Thought, the charge of anthropomorphism is

1) A blind alley at best and a potentially infinite game of one-upsmanship
2) At worst, a symptom of profound correlationism and thus guilty of what it accuses the other of doing!