Studies

Temporal Ontology and Metaphysics

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

Monograph of Existential Realism

• 1.0 ER - Existential Realism: A Distinct Ontological Framework Beyond Presentism
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• 1.1 ER - Existence ≠ Reality: What Exists, What’s Real, and Why It Matters
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• 1.2 ER - Against the Block: A Realist’s Rejection of the Block Universe
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• 1.3.1 ER - Quantum Physics Prefers the Present: A Temporal Ontology Grounded in Measurement
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• 1.3.2 ER - Existential Realism: When Quantum Physics Backs the Now
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• 1.3.3 ER - Becoming Present: The Collapse of Possibility into Time
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• 1.4 ER - Making of Time: Causality, Entropy, and Becoming
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• 1.5 ER - Neuroscientific Support for Existential Realism: Memory, Anticipation, and the Present
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• 1.6 ER - Time as Constructed and Real: Integrating Cognitive Science with Existential Realism
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• 1.7 ER - Ethics After the Present: Responsibility and Moral Agency in a Two-Tier Temporal Ontology
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• 1.8 ER - Formal Logic for Existential Realism: Modeling Time, Causality, and Observability
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• 1.9 ER - Spacetime, Relativity, and the Persistence of Becoming
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• 1.10 ER - Manifesto and Summary of Existential Realism: What Exists, What’s Real, and Why It Matters
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• 1.11 ER - Beyond the Present: Open Questions in Existential Realism
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Further Developments in Existential Realism

• 1.12 ER - Time-Bound Organism: Temporality in Biological and Cognitive Systems
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• 1.13 ER - Technology and the Reality of the Present-Centered Machine
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• 1.14 ER - Temporal Vastness and Architecture, A Comparative Analysis of Four Views of Time
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• 1.18 ER - Cracks in the Projection: Black Holes, Reality, and the Hidden Order of Time
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Hellenistic and Late Antique Philosophy

• Critique of Modern Academic Philosophy from Hellenistic and Late Antique Thought
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• Ancient Attention and Modern Flow: Revisiting Prosochē through Contemporary Lenses
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• Between Dialectic and Formalism: A Comparative Study of Stoic and Contemporary Logics
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• Cognitive-Affective Regulation in Stoic Thought: Toward a Therapeutic Model
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