Research Programme
One question, three intersecting programmes
Research question
How does artificial intelligence transform the conditions that make human judgment, responsibility, and moral formation possible?
The programme investigates the background conditions — epistemic, institutional, and anthropological — that make distinctly human capacities possible, and asks what happens when technological systems relocate, conceal, or reshape those conditions.
Programmes
Three lines, one architecture
Human Judgment
Research on
- — answerability
- — responsibility
- — practical reasoning
- — institutional decision-making
Human Formation
Research on
- — theological anthropology
- — moral formation
- — discernment
- — creaturehood
Epistemic Conditions
Research on
- — inferential license
- — epistemic infrastructure
- — scientific methodology
- — explanation
Research map
The architecture at a glance
Human Formation
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Judgment ←──→ Responsibility
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Epistemic Conditions
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Artificial IntelligenceKey concepts
The conceptual framework
These concepts constitute an evolving research programme on the philosophical conditions of AI-mediated human agency. Each has its own dedicated page.
Subtractive Redescription
How AI systems reformulate human practices by removing the tacit conditions that gave them meaning.
Inferential License
The normative authority to draw conclusions — and how automated inference redistributes it.
Epistemic Infrastructure
The background scaffolding of concepts, institutions, and practices that make knowledge possible.
Artificial Answerability
Whether, and how, algorithmic systems can be held to account for what they mediate.
Institutional Answerability
How responsibility is distributed when institutions delegate judgement to predictive systems.
Predictive Mediation
The way forecasts reshape the situations they claim only to describe.
Evolution
How the programme has developed
- 2024
- Institutional AI
- 2025
- Responsibility
- Agency
- Judgment
- 2026
- Formation
- Theological Anthropology
- Epistemic Conditions
Current questions
Open lines of inquiry
- What does AI presuppose?
- When does explanation become normative?
- How can institutions remain answerable while delegating reasoning?
- What distinguishes judgment from prediction?