Selected concepts
A developing conceptual framework
These concepts constitute an evolving research programme on the philosophical conditions of AI-mediated human agency.
Each concept below is developed in its own dedicated page — outlining the underlying theory, key publications, and current work.
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Subtractive Redescription
How AI systems reformulate human practices by removing the tacit conditions that gave them meaning.
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Inferential License
The normative authority to draw conclusions — and how automated inference redistributes it.
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Epistemic Infrastructure
The background scaffolding of concepts, institutions, and practices that make knowledge possible.
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Artificial Answerability
Whether, and how, algorithmic systems can be held to account for what they mediate.
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Institutional Answerability
How responsibility is distributed when institutions delegate judgement to predictive systems.
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Predictive Mediation
The way forecasts reshape the situations they claim only to describe.