This volume presents the foundational framework of Evoluism, a meta-ontological approach developed to clarify the conditions under which forms, structures, and regimes of stability become intelligible as possibilities, without reducing Reality to objects, processes, or explanatory principles. The central distinction of Evoluism is between Reality as a condition of possibility and the World as a local regime of manifestness in which differences are stabilised, coordinated, and rendered describabl…
Read moreThis volume presents the foundational framework of Evoluism, a meta-ontological approach developed to clarify the conditions under which forms, structures, and regimes of stability become intelligible as possibilities, without reducing Reality to objects, processes, or explanatory principles. The central distinction of Evoluism is between Reality as a condition of possibility and the World as a local regime of manifestness in which differences are stabilised, coordinated, and rendered describable.
The work rejects both classical foundational metaphysics and contemporary universalist ontologies by arguing that Reality is not an object, structure, process, or productive ground, but a boundary fixing the limits of applicability of ontological categories. Within this framework, existence is not exhausted by givenness, observability, or structural articulation. Manifestness is treated as a regime-relative mode of existence within a World, characterised by varying degrees of stability, coordination, and accessibility.
Volume I develops the core ontological architecture of Evoluism, introducing the triadic distinction between elements, regimes, and conditions, and formalising the asymmetrical relation between Reality and World. It establishes ontological regimes as the minimal unit of analysis and introduces the parameter ψ as a non-quantitative, purely navigational index for distinguishing regimes of manifestness without ontologising measurement or explanation.
The framework is positioned through systematic comparison with process philosophy, physicalism, panpsychism, structural realism, transcendental philosophy, phenomenology, Heideggerian ontology, Deleuzian metaphysics, and speculative realism. In each case, Evoluism preserves structural insights while rejecting the ontologisation of conditions and the expansion of regime-specific concepts into universal foundations.
This volume does not offer a theory of everything, a metaphysics of grounding, or a causal explanation of evolution. Instead, it provides a disciplined ontological framework for distinguishing conditions from realisations, analysis from explanation, and manifestness from existence. It thereby prepares the transition to applied analytical work developed in Volume II.
The framework of Evoluism is presented here as an open analytical project rather than a closed system. The author invites critical discussion, objections, and comparative analysis from different philosophical perspectives.
Further reflections, extensions, and responses to this work will be developed in an open format and made available under the Evoluism account on X.