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The Generative Cosmos: Situating Ontogony in the Landscape of Contemporary Metaphysics

The contemporary philosophical landscape can be understood as a series of sustained and varied responses to the Kantian inheritance that has, for centuries, circumscribed the ambitions of metaphysics. This inheritance, termed "correlationism" by Quentin Meillassoux, posits that philosophy can only ever access the correlation between thought and being, never either term in isolation.1 This "philosophy of access" effectively limits metaphysical inquiry to an analysis of the conditions of human experience, bracketing the nature of reality independent of that experience—the "great outdoors"—as fundamentally unknowable.1 In recent decades, a diverse set of movements has emerged to challenge this limitation, each att