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Ethical Disclosure

The conditions under which a moral claim comes into view at all.

Theory

Ethical disclosure names the prior question of when a situation shows up as ethically laden — when a moral claim is disclosed as a claim rather than as a fact, a preference, or a datum.

Systems that mediate perception can foreclose disclosure without ever contradicting an ethical principle: nothing appears as a claim in the first place.

The concept relocates a central ethical question upstream of principles and reasons: what has to be in place for anything to register as an ethical matter?

Key publications

  • The Diffuse Void (working paper).
  • Predictive AI and Second-Personal Exclusion (working paper).

A continually updated record is available through the publications page.

Current work

  • An account of disclosure-preserving and disclosure-suppressing infrastructures.