Metaphysics

Critical Metaphysics of Process is a two-volume philosophical project that develops a contemporary metaphysics under critical constraints. Its guiding question is not simply what reality is, but what metaphysics may legitimately claim once the conditions and limits of knowledge, argument, and conceptual construction have been made explicit. The two volumes form a single movement : the first clears and disciplines the field ; the second undertakes the reconstruction that becomes possible within those limits.

Volume I establishes the critical foundations. It distinguishes science, normative philosophy, immanent metaphysics, and transcendent metaphysics ; examines the relation between metaphysics and valid scientific knowledge ; develops a non-substantialist process ontology ; and investigates mind, personhood, self-reference, embodiment, and mental pliancy. Its concluding “ultimate analysis” asks whether persons and phenomena possess inherent existence. The result rejects both substantialism and nihilism : conventional existence remains, while existence from an independent, self-grounding side is not found.

Volume II begins from what remains. It reconstructs actuality through an open world-system comprising the actual world and the virtual world-ground, and develops matter, information, and consciousness as irreducible but interdependent operators of concrete becoming. From this general metaphysics it moves into special metaphysics : first to the cosmos, where the scheme is tested against contemporary cosmology, and then to the Divine, where the possibility of God*, Divine agency, power, providence, evil, and mystical warrant is critically examined. The work culminates in full-emptiness : reality is completely full in its dependent processes, relations, organizations, meanings, persons, possibilities, and Divine participation, while none of these possesses inherent existence.

Taken together, the two volumes defend a metaphysics that is constructive without becoming dogmatic, speculative without abandoning criticism, scientifically informed without reducing philosophy to science, and open to transcendence without confusing conceptual interpretation with possession of reality-as-such. The aim is not a final system immune to revision, but a comprehensive and corrigible metaphysical architecture adequate to a world understood as process, relation, dependence, possibility, and becoming.