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The Genealogy of Effective Alternatives: Constraint and Relational Responsibility

Moral responsibility is often assessed by asking what an actor chose, what alternatives were available, and how severely those alternatives were constrained. Yet the effective alternatives present at a moment of choice are themselves frequently products of earlier relations: depe...

The Genealogy of Effective Alternatives: Constraint and Relational Responsibility

Moral responsibility is often assessed by asking what an actor chose, what alternatives were available, and how severely those alternatives were constrained. Yet the effective alternatives present at a moment of choice are themselves frequently products of earlier relations: depe...

Generative Relational Economics - Chapter 3: Constitution and Research Programme of Generative Relational Economics

This chapter provides a preliminary constitution of Generative Relational Economics (GRE) as an emerging economic research programme. Building on the historical conditions examined in Chapter 1 and the intellectual lineages reconstructed in Chapter 2, it specifies the problem-spa...

Preference Transformation and the Problem of Later Endorsement

Later endorsement is often treated as normatively important evidence about whether a transformation, intervention, or continuing relation is acceptable. Yet the transformation being evaluated may itself have altered the preferences, memories, dependencies, evaluative standards, o...

Generative Relational Economics - Chapter 2: Intellectual Lineages and Theoretical Foundations

This chapter reconstructs the principal intellectual lineages and theoretical resources that make Generative Relational Economics (GRE) possible. Rather than presenting GRE itself in full, the chapter examines how a wide range of philosophical, economic, social-theoretical, norma...

Preference Transformation and the Problem of Later Endorsement

Later endorsement is often treated as normatively important evidence about whether a transformation, intervention, or continuing relation is acceptable. Yet the transformation being evaluated may itself have altered the preferences, memories, dependencies, evaluative standards, o...

Defining Support-Based Classifications from Aggregated Relational Records

A support attribute can be explicitly defined while remaining unresolved by an aggregated record. This paper examines that distinction in finite models of proposals supported by persons partitioned into groups. It separates attribute representation, definition relative to a langu...

Attributing Decision Roles in Human–Device Procedures for Allocating Shared Resources

A device can determine a resource recipient while people control eligibility, the selection rule, repeated draws, authorization and review. Describing the device's contribution requires several distinct questions about the procedure. This paper develops a role-attribution framewo...

Retaining Interpretive History in Local Models of Permission Understanding during Resource-Sharing Decisions

Understanding a permission can depend on an earlier grant, its scope, subsequent use and later revocation. A current answer can leave these differences hidden. This paper develops a local reference model for resource-sharing decisions that separates stipulated permission, a parti...

Preserving Claim Revisions in Records of AI-Assisted Philosophical Inquiry

Philosophical claims can change through dialogue, source encounters, objections, and editorial work. A final article presents the current argument, while leaving much of that development outside its scope. This paper develops a proposed documentary architecture for preserving con...

Completion Probabilities in Finite Public-Service Referral Models with Uncertain Routing

A public-service referral route can be available while its probability of completion remains unspecified. This paper develops a finite, fixed-policy probability enrichment that preserves that distinction. Normalized transition rows define a path law over a time-bounded referral g...

Preserving Decision Authorship under Uncertain Interpretation of Will and Preferences in Adult Disability Support

Assistance can make a person's decision possible while leaving the person vulnerable to interpretive substitution and control of the available options. This paper develops a framework for adult disability support when will and preferences admit several warranted interpretations....

Designing Counterexample Sequences for Interpretive Revision in Philosophical Discussions of Promises

Counterexamples can reveal a learner's interpretation while also changing the distinctions available for subsequent inquiry. This paper examines the resulting sequencing problem in philosophical discussions of promises. It distinguishes a counterexample's logical force, diagnosti...

Reconstructing Workers' Practical Capabilities during Conversion to Worker Cooperatives

Conversion to worker ownership can initiate a consequential change in authority while leaving substantial work to reconstruct the conditions of practical participation. This paper develops a conditional account of that reconstruction in worker cooperatives. It distinguishes owner...

Attributing Decision Roles in Human–Device Procedures for Allocating Shared Resources

A device can determine a resource recipient while people control eligibility, the selection rule, repeated draws, authorization and review. Describing the device's contribution requires several distinct questions about the procedure. This paper develops a role-attribution framewo...

Distinguishing Interpretive Uptake from Dynamical Influence in Generative Relational Models of Social Meaning

A signal can change an interpreter's trajectory through heat, salience, coercion or understood content. A general relational dynamics accommodates these possibilities while leaving their semantic differences open. This paper develops a proposed bridge between labelled consequence...

Revising Claims in AI-Assisted Philosophical Inquiry

AI assistance can contribute substantially to philosophical questioning, formalization, criticism, and redaction. Evaluating that contribution requires an account of the inquiry through which claims are formed and revised. This paper develops a proposed method for AI-assisted con...

Theory of Mind in Clarifying Dialogue: Inferring Another Person's Interpretation from Relational History

Clarifying dialogue can supply evidence about another person's interpretation while changing the interpretation being investigated. This paper develops a relational-history account of the resulting inference problem. It separates current coordination, retrospective attribution, a...

Astronomy and Politics: Celestial Order and Political Reflection

This paper develops a historical and philosophical inquiry into the reciprocal relations between astronomy and politics. The inquiry begins from the observation that human communities have repeatedly looked to the heavens when interpreting political order, while political institu...

An Astronomy-Inspired Political Epistemology: Governing across Heterogeneous Presents

This paper develops an astronomy-inspired political epistemology for governance in systems whose relevant actors, evidence, institutions, and processes evolve through heterogeneous temporal and relational conditions. Modern political institutions routinely construct common tempor...