Veronica Cavedagna

Following the mathematical use of isomorphism, which is a one-to-one correspondence between at least two structures or forms, the article extends and reconsiders the meaning of this notion in respect to three fundamental philosophical problems: the origin of meaning, the role of images in the formation of knowledge and the morphogenesis of the real. We argue that isomorphism could be understood as a heterotopian scale in which the overlapping of the maps with the territory it represents, results in a harmonic proliferation of realities which directly map onto the concepts they embody. As such, in order to describe it, we equal isomorphism to an ontopoietical method that allows for the transition from an analogical metaphysics, to a pluralistic ontology.

Even if the impersonal isn’t explicitly named in the earlier Ruyer, it may find an original proposition of this notion in his works. Thanks to his conception of space, concerned with the ontological constitution of every structure or mechanism, Ruyer allows to go beyond anthropological implications of the impersonal. The aim of this proposal is to inspect and to develop some of the principal theoretical and ethical consequences of this earlier conception, also by comparison with the later Ruyer’s philosophy.