philosophy-of-science

_Zenodo_. 2025The Wittenberg Framework (Part 0) provides the conceptual architecture and program overview of a non-metric, axis-based method for structuring and comparing qualitative orientations in governance, ethics, and culturally diverse decision environments. It introduces the intellectual foundations of the Framework, outlines its methodological commitments, and situates the series within a…

_Journal of General Philosophy of Science_. forthcomingThere is widespread consensus that a view of nothing but powers or dispositional fundamental properties struggles to accommodate physical symmetries. An option is to expand the fundamental ontology admitting extra modal elements constraining the behaviour of physical systems. Another is to eliminate symmetries altogether deeming them as dispe…

This document proposes a stratified ontology that articulates, under a single conceptual grammar, what fundamental physics, autopoietic biology, and contemporary cognitive science say about reality at their different scales. The initial motivation arises from a gap in the contemporary metaphysical landscape: ontic structural realism illuminates physics but struggles to account for the living; pro…

This article develops a metatheoretical claim about a specific class of intellectual operations in foundational physics. It distinguishes between solving an interpretive problem in its own terms, replacing the theory that generated the problem, and dissolving the problem by displacing the ontological presupposition that gave it its shape. The third operation, which the article calls ontological r…

This paper acts as a highly compressed form of a few papers which have been appearing together, but have not yet been appropriately unified. The notions presented are the idea of a "biological" or "living" universe which is growing by consuming something, and is metabolizing it as such and giving rise to the energy gradients in the universe. The second is the notion of Hinduism and it's connectio…

Western epistemological tradition has generally conceived knowledge as progressive access to the intrinsic nature of entities. Even the most sophisticated scientific descriptions are often interpreted as attempts to grasp what things “are” in themselves, independently of the relations within which they appear. This paper proposes a critique of this essentialist framework by developing a relationa…

_History and Philosophy of Logic_ 47 (2):201-216. 2026Some of the more prominent contributions to the last fifty years of scholarship on Aristotle’s syllogistic suggest a conceptual framework under which the syllogistic is a logic, a system of inferential reasoning, only if it is not a theory, a system concerned with ontology or general facts. I argue that this a misleading interpretative framewo…

I have switched my academic discipline from physics to philosophy (at post graduate level), having found my physics research and general interests increasingly focused on the metaphysical exploration ...

This paper clarifies the conceptual and methodological evolution of a research program initially developed around finite cognition, epistemic limitation, and the structural conditions of intelligibility. The early stages of the program explored whether scientific knowledge should be understood not as direct access to reality, but as the stabilization of usable structures within finite cognitive s…

This work presents a philosophical and mathematical research highlight on the ontological structure of space understood as a compact, simply connected, boundaryless three-dimensional manifold: M ≃ S³. Instead of treating space as a local product of physical emergence, the treatise argues that the manifold should be regarded as a persistent global structure, while cosmological evolution describes …

In Metaphysics of String Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. forthcomingString theory is a minefield for philosophers in terms of conceptual difficulty and mathematical technicality. Presentations aimed at philosophers generally focus on providing precise and technical mathematical descriptions of toy models and inter-theoretical toy derivations to give an idea of what is at play in th…

This article presents the Semalgebra as an independent formal apparatus. The companion article (Bonisoli 2026) developed Transformative Semalgebraic Ontology (OTS) and rendered the formal apparatus in a minimal form sufficient to make the philosophical proposal tractable, referring the reader to the complete formal corpus (Bonisoli 2025b) for the full technical development. The present article oc…

Fedinand Gonseth in 1936 read and published a paper with the title "La logique en tant que physique de l'objet quelconque" (that is: Logic as physics of an arbitrary object). For ...

This treatise develops Informational Actualism as a doctrine of computable factuality. Its central claim is that reality should not be understood primarily as matter, but as a process through which a space of possibilities is resolved into a determinate factual history. The paper formulates this process through Shalymenov’s Criterion: ω=argmin(K(ω)−logp(ω)), where factuality is interpreted as the…

Arguments against an infinite past often rely on the impossibility of traversing an actual infinite. This paper develops a parallel argument against an actually infinite future without appealing to controversial grounding principles or any single theory of time. It argues that dynamic theories of time generate a tension between finitude and potential infinitude when they deny an actually infinite…

A paper about Artificial Intelligence and the effects of Humans.

The generative substrate is the foundational primitive of Generative Worlds Architecture. It specifies the minimal structural background that makes coherent generativity possible. This paper provides the formal definition of the substrate, the admissible structures it can support, the governing equations that regulate its transitions, and the invariants that must be preserved for a universe, its …

Why does Reality persist? By using logic and observed reality, coupled with the concept of infinity and scale invariance, this book has an answer for many of humanities deepest questions such as infinite regression, null loops, free will, entropy, the function of black holes, and the existence of an eternal loving preserver. It is a closed loop ontological system, with a core chain of logic that …