Studies

Temporal Ontology and Metaphysics

Existential Realism

Existential Realism (ER) was developed over many years, with most academic publications appearing in 2025.
Accessible overview for a wider audience.
This following monograph brings together all ER papers in one place and is updated regularly.

Monograph of Existential Realism

The Essential Framework of Existential Realism

• Existential Realism: A Distinct Ontological Framework Beyond Presentism
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17034826, Academia

• Existence ≠ Reality: What Exists, What’s Real, and Why It Matters
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17034962, Academia

• Against the Block - A Realist’s Rejection of the Block Universe
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035037, Academia

• Quantum Physics Prefers the Present: A Temporal Ontology Grounded in Measurement
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035111, Academia

• Existential Realism: When Quantum Physics Backs the Now
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035123, Academia

• Becoming Present: The Collapse of Possibility into Time
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035169, Academia

• Making of Time: Causality, Entropy, and Becoming
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035207, Academia

• Neuroscientific Support for Existential Realism: Memory, Anticipation, and the Present
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035265, Academia

• Time as Constructed and Real: Integrating Cognitive Science with Existential Realism
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035309, Academia

• Ethics After the Present: Responsibility and Moral Agency in a Two-Tier Temporal Ontology
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035379, Academia

• Formal Logic for Existential Realism: Modeling Time, Causality, and Observability
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035424, Academia

• Spacetime, Relativity, and the Persistence of Becoming
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035485, Academia

• Transitional Edge Mechanism: The Lawfulness of Manifestation and Demanifestation
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035926, Academia

• Manifesto and Summary of Existential Realism: What Exists, What’s Real, and Why It Matters
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035550, Academia

• Beyond the Present: Open Questions in Existential Realism
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035599, Academia

Further Developments in Existential Realism

• Time-Bound Organism: Temporality in Biological and Cognitive Systems
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035643, Academia

• Technology and the Reality of the Present-Centered Machine
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035690, Academia

• Temporal Vastness and Architecture: A Comparative Analysis of Four Views of Time
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035746, Academia

• Cracks in the Projection: Black Holes, Reality, and the Hidden Order of Time
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035896, Academia

• Beginning and End: Inflation, Horizons, and the Limits of Time
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035778, Academia

• Growing Into Time: Developmental Stages on the Child's Timeline
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035840, Academia

• Psychophysiology of the Now: Contemplation of Existence in ER
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035960, Academia

• Dual World and Phenomenology in ER: How Cognition Bridges Existence and Reality
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17051791, Academia

• Matter, Substance and Stuff, How to disprove Existential Realism
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17060428, Academia

• Emerging Dimensionality: The Present as Unfolding from Lower-Dimensional Reality
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17086072, Academia

• Generation without Fragments: Existence, Reality, and the A–B-Series
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17093138, Academia

• Entangled Realities, Present Existence: Bell Nonlocality in ER
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17100326, Academia

• Spooky Action, Hidden Order: ER on Entanglement and Lower-Dimensional Reality
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17107170, Academia

• Traces and Potentials: The Honesty of Loss and Openness
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17112006, Academia

• Fragility of Existence, Nothing Persists but Presence Itself
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17115426, Academia

• Quantum Freezing and Discrete Becoming: Zeno Effect, Causal Sets, and Quantum Gravity
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17121388, Academia

• Universe Creation Engine, The Mighty Cracks as the Inheritable Chamber of Birth
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17135861, Academia

• Existence Without Witness: Anti-Anthropocentrism in Temporal Realism
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17143067, Academia

• Matter over Mind: Why ER Rejects Mysticism, Solipsism, and Comfort Escapes
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17153425, Academia

• Physics Edition: Foundations for a Present-Centered View of Time in Contemporary Physics
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17161212, Academia

Hellenistic and Late Antique Philosophy

• Critique of Modern Academic Philosophy from Hellenistic and Late Antique Thought
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17036083, Academia

• Ancient Attention and Modern Flow: Revisiting Prosochē through Contemporary Lenses
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17035997, Academia

• Between Dialectic and Formalism: A Comparative Study of Stoic and Contemporary Logics
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17036021, Academia

• Cognitive-Affective Regulation in Stoic Thought: Toward a Therapeutic Model
  Available on: Philarchive (rec), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17036058, Academia