Capacities that must already be in place for institutions and technologies to function: judgment, moral standing, responsibility, object constitution, answerability.
The Gifted Subject: Kenosis, Phenomenology, and the Constitution of Responsive Agency
Level 2Published onlineRecovers 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
- Capacities
When Responsibility Fails to Arise: Institutional Conditions of Action in Algorithmic Governance
Level 1Published onlineDistinguishes 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
- Capacities
Standing Is Not an Ordering
Under reviewDevelops the partition thesis: criteria of moral standing determine who is considerable but do not by themselves generate priority among those admitted.
Case · Ontocentric information ethics serves as the maximal test of the thesis.
- Status
- Under review · 2026
- Concepts introduced
- Partition Thesis
- Related theme
- Normativity & Standing
- Capacities
- Supporting connections
When Institutions Stop Answering Back
DraftPrincipal current manuscript. Identifies the institutional site at which answerability must be borne once reasoning is delegated to automated procedures, and shows how nominal oversight can leave that site vacant.
- Status
- Draft manuscript · 2026
- Concepts introduced
- Judgment Gap
- Related theme
- Judgment & Answerability
- Capacities
The Licensing Problem in Predictive Maintenance: When Does a Prediction Become a Reason to Act?
Working paperSpecifies four conditions on a maintenance license — the entitlement to treat a predictive output as a ground for a given intervention — and shows that predictive accuracy does not by itself confer any of them.
Case · AI-driven predictive maintenance in industrial asset management serves as the applied test case.
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- Status
- Working paper (draft v5) · 2026
- Concepts introduced
- Inferential License
- Related theme
- Judgment & Answerability
- Capacities
The Ontological Organization of Normativity
In preparationStudies how ontological commitments organise the space in which normative orderings can be constructed at all.
- Status
- In preparation
- Related theme
- Normativity & Standing
- Capacities
Answerability on the Record
In preparationArgues that answerability requires an addressable record — not merely an explainable output — and reconstructs institutional recordkeeping as a moral infrastructure.
- Status
- In preparation
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- Judgment & Answerability
- Capacities
- Supporting connections
Design–Inference Alignment
Working paperFormulates a criterion of design–inference alignment: the inferences licensed by an empirical design must not exceed the constitution of its object.
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- Working paper
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- Explanation & Science
- Capacities
- Supporting connections
Object constitution and scientific inference
In preparationSketches a general account of how the constitution of scientific objects constrains the inferences that can be drawn about them.
- Status
- In preparation
- Related theme
- Explanation & Science
- Capacities
Systemic friction
Working paperReconstructs friction as a productive, not merely obstructive, feature of institutional systems and shows what its removal costs.
- Status
- Working paper
- Concepts introduced
- Systemic Friction
- Related theme
- Institutions & Infrastructure
- Capacities
- Supporting connections
Organic API theory
Working paperProposes an organic account of institutional interfaces against a purely mechanical API metaphor.
- Status
- Working paper
- Related theme
- Institutions & Infrastructure
- Capacities