Research themes
One programme, six problem areas
My research is organized around a coherent set of philosophical problems concerning judgment, responsibility, explanation, institutional reason, normativity, and human formation. Different disciplines and technologies provide contexts in which these problems become visible and can be studied.
The themes below are not disciplinary categories. Each one names a philosophical problem area; the papers and projects grouped under it are attempts to work on that problem from several sides.
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Theme 01
Judgment, Answerability and Institutional Reason
How institutional judgment, answerability, and provenance are reorganised when reasoning is delegated.
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Theme 02
Normativity, Moral Standing and Ethical Disclosure
The conditions under which moral claims arise, and the difference between admission to consideration and priority within it.
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Theme 03
Formation, Agency and the Human Subject
Moral and subject formation under conditions of optimisation and technological mediation.
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Theme 04
Desire, Comparison and Social Relations
Mimetic desire, comparative entitlement, and the platform mediation of grievance and social violence.
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Theme 05
Explanation, Object Constitution and Philosophy of Science
Explanatory entitlement, object constitution, and the inferential license of scientific and statistical models.
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Theme 06
Institutions, Infrastructure and Technological Mediation
Epistemic infrastructure, institutional friction, and the automation of institutional functions.