Epistemics.de presents a research project on the conditions under which reality becomes reliable for finite knowing. At its center is not the claim to a new worldview, but the question of how experience, orientation, models, science, and shared reality emerge, remain stable, and become correctable.
Reality is not devalued by this. It is not merely invented. But it is also not presupposed as a fully determinable world that explains itself. It is stabilized in forms that hold up, resist, can be taken up together, tested, and revised when necessary.
The project investigates how such forms of reality emerge, how they condense into structures of orientation and models, where their validity is limited, and what happens when our previous interpretations no longer hold.
An accessible entry point is provided by the introductory essay. Readers who want to follow the works systematically can find their order in the paper overview.
Project Map
1. Limit of Positive Determination
Realism Without an Outside clarifies why reality cannot simply be presupposed as a positively determinable outside. Reality remains necessary, but its claim to an outside is limited.
2. Finite Order Formation
Contingency Mechanics describes how open possibility is transformed into viable order through variation, stabilization, immanentization, friction, and reorganization.
3. Pre-forms of Model Capability
From the Field of Experience to the Model and Ontologization examine how experience becomes graspable, connectable, and referable before explicit models arise.
4. Epistemics
Epistemics analyzes orientation structures, model validity, and revision under finite conditions: with costs, friction, domains, search, falsification, and controlled correction.
5. Orders of Reality
Relative Reality Theory, Beyond Physics and Metaphysics, The Intersubjective Domain and Shared Epistemic Reality differentiate subjective, intersubjective, and functional-empirical domains of validity.
6. Applications and Boundary Analyses
Cosmological World Model and Limits of the Self show where model architectures, unity claims, and ontologizations exceed their own means of determination.