Wanhong HUANG

Reflections on Exchange Injustice in Generative Relational Systems

An exchange can improve a person's position while placing unjustified demands on that person. Historical inquiry helps explain this possibility, yet a background wrong also requires a specified connection to the bargain under assessment. This paper develops a bounded transmission...

When Knowledge Production No Longer Requires Knowing: Rethinking Gewu Zhizhi (Investigating Things and Extending Knowledge) in the Age of AI

This essay reconsiders gewu zhizhi (investigating things and extending knowledge) under a technological condition in which propositions, explanations, distinctions, questions, and even apparently reflective trajectories of inquiry can be produced before an equivalent process of h...

A Theory of Manufactured Vulnerability in Relations of Domination

Assistance can improve a person's circumstances while sustaining an unjust account of the relationship in which the assistance occurs. This paper develops a theory of a specific mechanism of domination: actors contribute to another party's vulnerability, restrict the practical po...

The Relational Reality of Artificial Intelligence under Ontological Uncertainty

Generative artificial intelligence can increasingly produce signs that are ordinarily associated with knowing subjects. It can offer knowledgeable explanations, express uncertainty, revise earlier claims, display humility, and generate forms of discourse that appear to resist epi...