This comprehensive five-volume philosophy starts its worldview-forming metaphysics with the certainty of, “I am,” using it as the first ontological hinge by which to eventually establish the nature of the objective, physical world. Throughout this extensive derivation, numerous significant topics are addressed and substantiated: beginning with Volume One’s demonstration of free will; of purpose in life and, by extension, in the world; and of the basic principles to metaethics (i.e., the ground and nature of ethical values); in turn culminating with Volume Five’s solid validation for the scientific method and, among other scientific issues, the entailed metaphysics of Darwinian evolution.

Written by a mystic with a love of the sciences, the work develops through the steady accumulation of a newly discerned type of epistemic certainty: one that is believed unfalsifiable in practice, yet which perpetually remains falsifiable in principle. Because of this unique metaphysics’ resulting structure, it maintains the otherwise scientific standard of falsifiability throughout, despite its verdicts not being empirically testable. To then bolster this ontology’s strength of epistemic certainty, the reader is invited to try to falsify any certainty this work affirms.

Volume One sets the foundations of the work by addressing:

1. The nature of certainty, uncertainty, and doubt.
2. Basic modes of our first-person awareness, which then operate via three distinct tiers.
3. Demarcations of what our consciousness can and cannot be.
4. A detailed analysis of explanatory determinacy types paralleling those of Aristotelian philosophy.
5. The three possible types of structural determinacy.
6. A resulting classification of causes.
7. Proof that we dwell within a causally semi-determinate world.
8. Use of (1) through (7) to demonstrate that we are endowed with metaphysical free will.
9. The metaphysically fixed, background, teleological drive that determines everything we freely will.
10. As a corollary, the collectively exhaustive, conceivable ultimate ends of our being as a first-person point of view—from which topics such as metaethics and life's ultimate purpose can be derived—with one such viable ultimate end being definable as the Absolute, else as the teleological (yet non-deity) unmoved mover of all that is.
11. An anatomy of the self that, in part, explains both the Vedic concept of Atman (our true metaphysical self) and the Buddhist doctrine of anatman (the principle of no-self) via the same reasoning.
12. Using (1) through (11), previews of certain key tenets to be formally established in subsequent volumes, including: realty types, physical objectivity’s makeup, fallibilist knowledge as justified true belief, the metaphysics of truth, the derivation of spacetime, and the entailment of Darwinian evolution.

Volume One is released into the public domain by the author under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) dedication.

It is currently anticipated that there will be an approximate three-year timespan from the release of each volume to the release of the next.

Topics in subsequent volumes include:

• Volume Two: a new bundle theory of mind, sleeping and waking awareness, the possibilities of the supernatural, and the impossibility of solipsism
• Volume Three: mind-body relations, logical identity, objectivity, compatibilism, and spacetime
• Volume Four: truth, belief, trust, metaethics, value theory, and aesthetics
• Volume Five: reasoning, epistemology, and science

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Of note (8/19/2026): The work has been restructured from its previous three volumes into five volumes. Volume One is currently scheduled for paperback release in October of 2026, with an estimated value of 20 US dollars. This website (together with its table of contents) will be repopulated after Volume One’s paperback release. Please see latest updates for more information.

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An Enquiry into the Nature of Being

by Michael W Moiceanu (michael@anenquiry.com)

Preface

Volume One: Certainty, Awareness, Will, Mind, and Selfhood

Part 1: Foundational Principals

Chapter 1: Demarcating Certainty, Uncertainty, and Doubt

Chapter 2: The Cohort of All Those Concerned

Chapter 3: The Exclusive Use of Noncontradictory Reasoning

Part 2: First-Person Awareness

Chapter 4: The Percipio - Proving the Reality of the Eidem

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