Title: The Geometry of The Good
Subtitle: Ethics in a Relational Field
Subject Classification:  Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Morals  
BIC Classification: HPQ, UYQ
BISAC Classification: PHI005000, PHI013000, COM004000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Jan 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-658-4
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-659-1

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Description

The Geometry of the Good develops a structural realist ontology of ethics, grounding obligation, responsibility, and moral repair in relational directedness. Combining phenomenology, formal ontology, and computational metaphilosophy, the book offers both a philosophical framework and experimental validation through agent-based simulations.


This book stands apart from traditional works in metaethics and normative theory by rejecting voluntarist or relativist frameworks and instead treating ethics as a structural feature of reality, akin to geometry. Comparable works in analytic ethics (e.g., Scanlon, Korsgaard) or phenomenological accounts (Levinas) focus on normativity or responsibility without providing an ontological or testable foundation. By contrast, this book situates obligation within a realist metaphysics and demonstrates its implications using computational modeling.

The primary audience includes philosophers of ethics, metaphysics, and law, as well as interdisciplinary researchers in AI ethics and computational social science. The book is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in ethics, ontology, and philosophy of law, and it aims to become a touchstone for scholars interested in experimental metaphysics and the ontology of obligation.

Biography

Author(s):  David Koepsell is an Instructional Associate Professor at Texas A&M University, USA

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