This book aims to offer a naturalist correction — something between a creative misreading and an unsolicited deliverance — of Alain Badiou's philosophy, under the aegis of a metaphilosophical commitment to the overcoming (or neglect) of the artificial, deleterious and obsolescent division between "continental" and "analytic" approaches to philosophy.¹ I will occasionally employ the term 'synoptic" (as in 'synoptic philosophy" or "the synoptic philosopher") to index this kind of philosophically ecumenical attitude. I am convinced that, in particular in the philosophy of science, we should tirelessly endeavour to relinquish these capricious and myopic restrictions to the gamut of acceptable philosophical assets, and encourage philosophers to develop the ambidexterity² to evaluate them competently.