Peer-reviewed publications

Distinguishes cases in which responsibility is refused from cases in which the institutional conditions for responsibility to arise at all are absent from the outset.

Journal

AI and Ethics · 2026 · DOI

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Normativity & Standing

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• Presupposed

Examines the diffuse configurations in which no addressable party stands where a moral claim would ordinarily land, and shows how safety engineering can produce exactly that vacancy.

Journal

AI and Ethics · 2026 · DOI

Concepts introduced

Judgment Gap

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Normativity & Standing

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• Concealed

Reconstructs creaturehood as an anthropological structure — a life received rather than assembled — and shows what is externalised when moral formation is delegated to optimising systems.

Journal

Studies in Christian Ethics · 2026 · DOI

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Formation & Agency

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• Transformed

Traces the displacement of practical wisdom by anticipatory foresight when deliberation is mediated by predictive systems, and identifies what is lost when judgment is replaced by provision.

Journal

Studies in Christian Ethics · 2026 · DOI

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Formation & Agency

Capacities

• Transformed

Recovers the gifted subject — an agency constituted through reception and response — against a self taken to be exhaustively self-authored or exhaustively optimised.

Journal

Studia Theologica — Nordic Journal of Theology · 2026 · DOI

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Formation & Agency

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• Presupposed

Introduces automated certainty as a condition in which algorithmic systems reduce experienced perplexity faster than they produce the interpretive competence required to evaluate the resolution, and proposes an empirical research program for tracking the resulting divergence between theological confidence and competence.

Case · Cognitive science of religion, processing fluency, predictive processing, and historical practices of interpretive formation (Chavruta, lectio divina, apophatic discipline) frame the analysis.

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Journal

Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion · 2026 · DOI

Concepts introduced

Automated Certainty

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Formation & Agency

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• Concealed
• Transformed

Supporting connections

• Automated Certainty×Epistemic Infrastructure
• Automated Certainty×Judgment Gap
• Automated Certainty×Systemic Friction

Identifies the deformation that follows when epistemic labour is automated without a corresponding reformation of the practices that labour once required of the human subject.

Journal

Religions · 2026 · Publisher

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Formation & Agency

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• Transformed

Sets an extractive order of habituation against sanctification as a formative order, and asks who holds formative sovereignty when habits are shaped predictively.

Journal

Religions · 2026 · Publisher

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Formation & Agency

Capacities

• Transformed

Formalises a process model linking small-scale behavioural regulation to the longer arc of character formation, giving the formation thesis an empirically tractable shape.

Journal

Behavioral Sciences · 2026 · DOI

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Formation & Agency

Capacities

• Transformed

Extends habitus to environments in which formation is directed by systems whose formative purposes remain undeclared, and reads sanctification as a counter-ordering of desire.

Journal

New Blackfriars · 2026 · DOI

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Desire & Relations

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• Concealed

Develops comparative entitlement formation as a single mechanism linking proximate comparison, the felt claim it generates, grievance, and displacement onto vulnerable third parties; shows that the characteristic irrationality of unfairness experience reflects the mechanics of comparison rather than a failure of rational judgement.

Journal

Philosophy & Social Criticism · 2026 · DOI

Concepts introduced

Comparative Entitlement Formation

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Desire & Relations

Capacities

• Transformed

Names conceptual inflation as a systematic pathology: extending a construct beyond the explanatory entitlements conferred by its underlying object constitution.

Journal

Philosophies · 2026 · Publisher

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Explanation & Science

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• Concealed

Models how commercially structured amplification sustains belief beyond the evidence that would ordinarily revise it.

Journal

Journal of Health Communication · 2026 · DOI

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Explanation & Science

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• Concealed

Shows that the tradition's resources for indirect agency are act-derivative without exception, and that some infrastructural configurations decline, at the operating level, to produce the act those resources require — then reformulates sin, judgment, and moral agency accordingly.

Case · Robodebt, the Dutch childcare-benefits scandal, and automated platform moderation serve as the three institutional configurations.

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Journal

Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie · 2026 · DOI

Concepts introduced

Epistemic Infrastructure

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Institutions & Infrastructure

Capacities

• Concealed
• Transformed