Åke Elden

Philosophy · Technology · Theology · Anthropology

Åke EldenPhD · Researcher and Research Advisor, NLA University College

What makes it possible for us to judge, act freely, and take responsibility?

I explore how technology changes these possibilities — and what we need to preserve them.

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The Philosophy of Exercisable Human Capacities

Having a capacity is not the same as being able to exercise it. My research asks what must be in place for human knowledge, judgment, freedom, and responsibility to become real possibilities.

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Selected publications

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  1. Comparative Desire and Social Violence: Mimetic Structure, Inequity, and the Scapegoat Dynamic

    Philosophy & Social Criticism · 2026

  2. From Phronesis to Pronoia: Algorithmic Mediation and the Theological Displacement of Practical Wisdom

    Studies in Christian Ethics · 2026

  3. Action Without Acts: The Institutional Production of Action and the Doctrinal Conditions of Responsibility

    Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie · 2026

  4. The Gifted Subject: Kenosis, Phenomenology, and the Constitution of Responsive Agency

    Studia Theologica — Nordic Journal of Theology · 2026

  5. When Responsibility Fails to Arise: Institutional Conditions of Action in Algorithmic Governance

    AI and Ethics · 2026

  6. Conceptual Inflation and Explanatory Entitlement: On the Limits of Construct Extension in Science

    Philosophies · 2026