Publications
Each entry names the theme it belongs to, its contribution to the programme, and — where relevant — the concept it develops. Publications are grouped by problem area rather than by discipline.
The most current record is maintained on the academic profile page.
Selected publications
Develops 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.
Identifies the institutional site at which answerability must be borne when reasoning is delegated to automated procedures, and where that site can be silently vacated.
Introduces second-order provenance: the traceability not of data but of the normative orderings under which data are taken to matter.
Reconstructs the concept of creaturehood as an anthropological structure that persists — or is deformed — under ambient optimisation.
Analyses how platform-mediated comparison produces entitlements whose frustration is structurally converted into grievance and, at scale, into social violence.
Names conceptual inflation as a systematic pathology in AI research: extending explanations beyond the entitlements of their underlying object constitutions.
Published
Peer-reviewed articles that have appeared in print or been formally accepted for publication.
No entries currently marked as published. Papers listed below are under review, in preparation, or circulating as working papers; those accepted for publication will move into this section.
Complete list
Theme 01
Identifies the institutional site at which answerability must be borne when reasoning is delegated to automated procedures, and where that site can be silently vacated.
Introduces second-order provenance: the traceability not of data but of the normative orderings under which data are taken to matter.
Argues that answerability requires an addressable record — not merely an explainable output — and reconstructs institutional recordkeeping as a moral infrastructure.
Theme 02
Develops 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.
Distinguishes cases in which responsibility is refused from cases in which the conditions for responsibility to arise are absent from the outset.
Examines the diffuse configurations in which no addressable party stands where a moral claim would ordinarily land.
Studies how ontological commitments organise the space in which normative orderings can be constructed at all.
Argues that predictive systems can enact a second-personal exclusion: those about whom claims are made are structurally not among those to whom answer is owed.
Theme 03
Reconstructs the concept of creaturehood as an anthropological structure that persists — or is deformed — under ambient optimisation.
Traces the drift from practical wisdom to anticipatory foresight when deliberation is displaced by predictive tooling.
Recovers the notion of the gifted subject against a self that is exhaustively constituted through optimisation.
Investigates conditions under which behaviour occurs without any recoverable act — no addressable agent, no unified intention.
Extends the concept of habitus to environments in which formation is directed by systems whose formative purposes remain undeclared.
Analyses how mimetic structures of the self are recomposed when models of the self are precomputed for us.
Identifies the deformation that follows when epistemic labour is automated without a corresponding reformation of the practices it once required.
Theme 04
Analyses how platform-mediated comparison produces entitlements whose frustration is structurally converted into grievance and, at scale, into social violence.
Describes the platforming of desire: the conversion of desire into a resource whose comparative structure can be measured, ranked, and monetised.
Theme 05
Names conceptual inflation as a systematic pathology in AI research: extending explanations beyond the entitlements of their underlying object constitutions.
Provides a map of epistemic instabilities that arise where model, world, and design fail to align.
Formulates a criterion of design–inference alignment: the inferences licensed by an empirical design must not exceed the constitution of its object.
Sketches a general account of how the constitution of scientific objects constrains the inferences that can be drawn about them.
Diagnoses ontological assumptions smuggled in by Markov-model formulations of state and transition.
Shows why the standard experimental repertoire around large language models systematically overreaches its inferential license.
Theme 06
Argues that AI systems function as epistemic infrastructure — silent scaffolding of what an institution can know — and reframes safety and governance in those terms.
Describes institutional inversion: the pattern by which supporting systems come to determine the institutional practices they were built to serve.
Reconstructs friction as a productive, not merely obstructive, feature of institutional systems and shows what its removal costs.
Proposes an organic account of institutional interfaces against a purely mechanical API metaphor.
Argues that accumulated administrative expertise can itself become a source of epistemic lag under rapid technological change.
Treats media systems as infrastructure whose formative effects operate below the level of content.