1. From Nature to Mind
This work will aim to tackle the problems related to the relation between nature and mind. This chiefly includes the so-called "problem of consciousness," although other issues such as the classical mind-body problem, as well as the problems related to the "correspondence theory of truth" and the "limits of our knowledge (of nature)" will also be discussed.
The work will be divided into three parts. First, there will be a discussion of Nature. Nature will be considered as mathematical and organic natures. The second deals with Mind, where concepts dominate the scene. The final part deals with the Transition, in which the logical movements from organic to conceptual beings will be investigated. In particular, the question of how "memory" or "learning by experience" becomes possible, how blind repetition is sublated, will have to be thought out in detail.
The ontological presupposition is that the world is fundamentally logical. In a word, panlogicism. Logic, however, is much more than formal logic. It contains all the essential abstract tensions which, although they do not manifest themselves directly in nature, are nonetheless part of nature, and of mind also. The principle which will guide the entire development is that mind is the reality or full realization of these logical entities, although logical entities condition the existence of mind. Nature mediates the two sides, and the ways in which this mediation happens will be the chief topic of part three, Transition.
Beyond this outline, there is nothing much to be said about the work. And this outline has hardly said anything at all. The reality of the work should lie in the work itself.
Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality should be one important reference point, upon which this work will build itself.
2. The Principles of Freedom
We here take the word "freedom" in its most naive sense, and try to build a systematic scale of forms. Freedom is, most naively, a) absence of all predetermination, and b) emergence of something new or other. The latter can be something other either in terms of a specific new quality or a specific quantitative determination such as position in space and time. From this we move forward dialectically by contrasting the positive and negative sides of this starting point in order to move to a higher form.
This work presupposes the work done in From Nature to Mind. Although logic continues to serve a foundational ontological role in the existence of freedom, freedom is not a concept which can be understood prior to the emergence of mind.
Moreover, as with the first work, this work also aims to show that its conclusions are categorically true. It must describe the forms of freedom as they exist regardless of whether or not a mind is hypothesizing about them as things external to itself. One of the reasons why From Nature to Mind needs to be presupposed is precisely located here, that freedom is in a very important sense identical to the mind, and so cannot be detached from the real existence and process of the mind.
Beyond these remarks, what is worth saying about this second project is, once again, only to be found in its actual execution.