Current core paper
Model Management under Finite Conditions
The current diagnostic and decision architecture for the validity, use, and revision of stabilized orders and models.
ERP · Publications
Papers & Essays
The current core paper, individual project contributions, and essays offering different routes into the project.
The texts document different stages of development. Earlier claims and terminology do not automatically represent the current project position.
19 texts
Paper · Epistemic critique
Realism Without an Outside
A functional reconstruction of world-reference, correction, and the scientific explanation of cognition.
An earlier German-language essay version was published as a guest contribution on Philosophies.de.
Paper · Formation of orders
From the Field of Experience to the Model
Epistemic stabilization and the localization of uncertainty before elaborated models.
Paper · Units of reference
Ontologization as a Fundamental Epistemic Operation
How relations are stabilized as identifiable units that can be taken up again.
Paper · Earlier formulation
Epistemics
An earlier programmatic account of orientation structures, model validity, and revision.
Paper · Domains
Domains, Boundaries, and Transition Functions
Domains of validity, boundaries, and the conditions for justified model transfer.
Paper · Friction
Friction
A separate approach to strain, mismatch, and the limits of stabilized orders.
Paper · Revision
Revision under Finite Conditions
Forms and conditions of controlled transformations of model orders.
Paper · Search
Efficient Search Under Finite Conditions
The relationship between optimization, exploration, and limited processing resources.
Paper · Falsification
Contextual and Global Falsification of Scientific Models
The distinction between contextual and global challenges to scientific models.
Paper · Earlier bridging approach
Relative Reality Theory
An earlier investigation of degrees of reality, domains, and stability.
Paper · Orders of reality
Beyond Physics and Metaphysics
Subjective, intersubjective, and functional-empirical perspectives on reality.
Paper · Intersubjectivity
The Intersubjective Domain
Shared connectability, taking up again, and intersubjective conditionality.
Paper · Shared reality
Shared Epistemic Reality
Social conditions for shared reference and correctable cognition.
Paper · Boundary analysis
Why a Cosmological World Model Is Not Enough
The scope and overextension of the unity claim in cosmological world models.
Paper · Personal identity
The Limits of the Self in Ontological Materialism
A boundary case concerning exclusive personal identity, examined through epistemic critique.
Paper · Earlier process approach
Contingency Mechanics
Variation and stabilization as a process heuristic. The earlier general selection mechanism is not confirmed in the current project.
Essay · Introduction
Epistemic Reality
An essay on experience, expectations, and the justified use of models in everyday life, science, and institutions.
Essay · Epistemic critique
Realism Without an Outside
An accessible exploration of our relation to the world, outer form, and the interplay between lived experience and scientific accounts of ourselves.
An earlier German-language essay version was published as a guest contribution on Philosophies.de.