Concepts
The conceptual vocabulary of the programme
A small core vocabulary carries the argument of the published record; the rest are working distinctions still being tested.
Core concepts
The four distinctions the published work turns on
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Inferential License
The normative permission to draw a conclusion from a given design — not merely the capacity to draw it.
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Exercisable Answerability
The difference between being formally assigned responsibility and actually being able to answer for what has been done.
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Epistemic Infrastructure
The background scaffolding of concepts, institutions, and practices that makes knowledge possible.
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Judgment Gap
The interval between what a system outputs and what a judgment would require to be answerable.
Developing concepts
Distinctions under development
Working vocabulary from manuscripts in progress. These are provisional and may be revised or absorbed as the arguments are published.
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Second-Order Provenance
Traceability not of data, but of the normative orderings under which data are taken to matter.
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Partition Thesis
Criteria of moral standing determine who is considerable but do not, by themselves, generate priority among those admitted.
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Ethical Disclosure
The conditions under which a moral claim comes into view at all.
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Comparative Entitlement Formation
How platforms form entitlements out of comparison, and structure the grievance that follows.
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Post-Mimetic Relationality
Relational configurations that arise once mimetic desire is infrastructurally mediated.
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Systemic Friction
Friction as a productive institutional condition — and the costs of its removal.
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Automated Certainty
The technologically mediated production of settled understanding faster than the competence required to evaluate it.