About
The Structural Determination Theory (SDT) Corpus is developed by Xiaozhou Zeng (Leo), an independent philosopher based in Nancy, France.
Author
- Name: Xiaozhou Zeng (Leo)
- ORCID: 0009-0001-8244-7329
- Location: Nancy, France
- Background: IT engineering background; independent research in metaphysics, philosophy of physics, and philosophy of mind
- Contact: via this site or PhilArchive
About the Corpus
SDT is developed entirely outside the institutional academic framework. The corpus consists of fifteen papers spanning foundational metaphysics, philosophy of physics, philosophy of mind, and AI philosophy. Each paper is structured around the single ontological axiom:
Reality consists of distinctly differentiated structure.
The corpus is offered freely for academic engagement.
Relation to PhilArchive
This site provides the working version of SDT papers, with cross-linked concepts and unified bibliography.
The published version is archived at PhilArchive:
- Structural Determination Theory v5.9
- Additional papers will be added to PhilArchive as they reach stable status.
For academic citation, please use the PhilArchive version (it provides a stable identifier).
License
- Paper content: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Site infrastructure & scripts: MIT License
You are welcome to cite, quote, translate, and build upon this work with attribution.
Acknowledgments
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Contact for Academic Engagement
Discussion, critique, and collaboration are welcome. The author is particularly interested in dialogue with researchers working on:
- Foundations of quantum mechanics (especially modal/possibilistic interpretations)
- Philosophy of time (especially non-presentist process ontologies)
- Causation theory (especially anti-reductionist frameworks)
- Constructor theory and related modal-structural approaches
- AI alignment foundations (especially modal-structural rather than probabilistic frameworks)
Please reach out via ORCID-listed contacts.