Epistemics

Model Management under Finite Conditions

Epistemics is a research project developed by Stefan Rapp. It investigates how models, concepts, and knowledge structures are formed, stabilized, and revised under finite epistemic conditions.

The project does not aim to replace empirical science or metaphysics. Instead, it provides a meta-framework for analysing validity, scope, costs, and limits of model formation across domains.

Core Topics

• Epistemic validity and model evaluation
• Ontologization as an epistemic operation
• Falsification, approximation, and domain-relative truth
• Model drift and stability in complex systems (including AI)
• Finite cognitive, computational, and institutional conditions

Publications

The project is documented through a series of open-access papers available via PhilPapers and PhilArchive.

• Contextual and Global Falsification of Scientific Models
• The Limits of the Self in Ontological Materialism
• Relative Reality Theory
• Epistemics: Model Management under Finite Conditions
• Ontologization as an Epistemic Basic Operation

Author

Stefan Rapp
Independent researcher
ORCID: 0009-0004-0847-9164