Constitutive ontology
The conditions and relations that constitute persons, entities and regimes of existence rather than merely describe them.
Official research platform
Foundations of Constitutive Ontology
A research program in ontology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of physics, and theological anthropology.
Um programa de pesquisa em ontologia, metafísica, filosofia da mente, filosofia da física e antropologia teológica.
Independent philosophical research
The project
Foundations of Constitutive Ontology
This independent research program was developed by Eduardo Patriota to investigate the constitutive conditions of persons, entities, domains of existence and reality itself.
The project brings together questions in ontology and metaphysics, mind and personal singularity, cosmology and the grounds of reality, as well as the relations between philosophical inquiry and theological anthropology.
Research axes
The constitutive structure of reality.
The program investigates different scales of constitution: from the singularity of the person to domains of existence and the necessary ground of reality.
Metaphysics and the ground of reality
Necessity, causality, intelligibility and the ultimate structure of what exists.
Mind, consciousness and personal singularity
Identity, first-person experience, the soul and the explanatory limits of functionalism.
Physics, cosmology and the unobservable
Ontological domains, emergence, the origin of the universe and the mathematical intelligibility of nature.
Theological anthropology
Personhood, post-mortem continuity, resurrection and structural relations between metaphysics and biblical tradition.
Published research
Research papers.
The papers are published in bilingual pairs, with a separate DOI and permanent record for each language version.
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Memory Without Shelter
Cloning, Memory Transfer, and Why Psychological Continuity Is Not Enough
Memória Sem Abrigo
Clonagem, Transferência de Memória e Por Que a Continuidade Psicológica Não É Suficiente
Structural Constraints on Ontological Unification
A Formal Model of Multiple Domains
Restrições Estruturais à Unificação Ontológica
Um Modelo Formal de Múltiplos Domínios
Research identity
Permanent academic records.
The official platform, DOI records and researcher identity are connected so that each publication remains discoverable and citable.