Towards a Category Theory for Complex Realism
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This paper attempts to retrace the steps used to conceive of category theory in Complex Realism. It starts evaluating Three Turns and Five Directives that have emerged from a transdisciplinary approach to metametaphysics, as well as the Speculative Realists’ contributions to this state of affairs. It then presents a more detailed account on how to build a Category Theory for this Complex Realism that grew out of Speculative Realism, Whitehead’s Process Philosophy, and Nicolai Hartmann’s Critical Realism, among other important influences. The purpose of this paper, then, is propaedeutic in showing directions to be taken and errors to be avoided in the construction of a new categoreal matrix for Complex Realism.
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