This book offers a new understanding of naturalism and normativity by integrating them within a process metaphysics framework. Rejecting all forms of transcendence, Dionysis Christias advances a conception of fractured immanence in which mind and nature are not ontologically distinct regions of being (they are both ways of being processes) yet diverge in the order of understanding, a tension enabling their ongoing self-correcting interplay as concepts without presupposing transcendence or complete mutual transparency. Drawing on Deleuze, Sellars and Peirce, the book replaces substance metaphysics with an anti-representational, univocal process ontology which throws light on core problems in contemporary analytic metaphysics of powers and emergence. Normativity is embedded in this naturalistic process framework by being understood as an emergent intensive regime whose function is hyperstitional: it stabilizes and projects ideal possible worlds expressed by unactualized universals, and performatively makes them actual over time by collectively treating them as real.

Autorentext

Dionysis Christias is Research Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language at the Academy of Athens, Greece. He previously published the book entitled Normativity, Lifeworld and Science in Sellars' Synoptic Vision (2023, Palgrave Macmillan).

Inhalt

Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION.- PART I: IMMANENCE, METAPHYSICS AND GIVENNESS.- Chapter 2. Different Conceptions of Immanence.- Chapter 3. Immanence without Givenness.- PART II: OUTLINE OF A FRACTURED IMMANENT ONTOLOGY.- Chapter 4. Toward a Process Nominalist Ontology.- Chapter 5. Nominalism, Emergence and Process.- Chapter 6. A Novel Account of Grounding.- PART III: NORMATIVE SPACES, HYPERSTITION AND PROCESS.- Chapter 7. Norms and Facts as Fractured Projections of Processual Reality.- Chapter 8. Normativity as a Hyperstitional Dynamic Regime PART.- PART IV: FREEDOM AND POLITICS IN AN IMMANENTLY FRACTURED WORLD.- Chapter 9. Fractured Freedom and the Emancipatory Force of Universals.- Chapter 10. The Politics of Fractured Immanence.