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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...

Reconstructing Cumulative Causal Histories in Institutional Inquiries into Workplace Harassment

An internal workplace inquiry may accurately record a final incident while leaving a cumulative causal question unresolved. This paper develops a framework for reconstructing such histories in inquiries into alleged workplace harassment. The analysis separates occurrence, experie...

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...

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...

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...

Distinguishing Decision Commitment from Changes in Available Futures in Generative Relational Models

A decision can settle a person's practical stance while the person's modeled opportunities remain unchanged. Conversely, an external disturbance can change available futures without constituting a decision. This paper examines those two possibilities within a generative relationa...

Reidentifying Collective Entities after Splitting and Merger in Generative Relational Models

Collective splitting and merger distribute members, practices, commitments, resources, and recognized standing among different successors. This paper develops a method for reidentifying organized collectives through such changes within a generative relational framework. It distin...

Realizing Possible Outcomes through Feasible Mechanism Paths in Generative Relational Models

A possible outcome can have several mechanism paths while depending on one shared condition. This paper develops a model of target availability through feasible paths in the generative relational framework. Feasibility is checked at every execution prefix before words are compres...

Modeling the Potential Effects of Historically Formed Relations in the Generative Relational Metamodel

A historically formed relation can retain a potential role in subsequent activity even when its effect remains unrealized. This paper develops a conditional account of that possibility within the generative relational metamodel. It distinguishes candidate histories, retained reco...

A Metamodel for Ontologically Heterogeneous Social Dynamics Part II: Modeling Six Categories of Social Facts

Social inquiry uses entities, relations, events, attributes, states, and processes to articulate different questions about a common situation. This paper develops their representations within the abstract action framework introduced in Part I, with ontological questions suspended...

A Metamodel for Ontologically Heterogeneous Social Dynamics Part II: Modeling Six Categories of Social Facts

Social inquiry uses entities, relations, events, attributes, states, and processes to articulate different questions about a common situation. This paper develops their representations within the abstract action framework introduced in Part I, with ontological questions suspended...

Realizing Possible Outcomes through Feasible Mechanism Paths in Generative Relational Models

A possible outcome can have several mechanism paths while depending on one shared condition. This paper develops a model of target availability through feasible paths in the generative relational framework. Feasibility is checked at every execution prefix before words are compres...

Reidentifying Collective Entities after Splitting and Merger in Generative Relational Models

Collective splitting and merger distribute members, practices, commitments, resources, and recognized standing among different successors. This paper develops a method for reidentifying organized collectives through such changes within a generative relational framework. It distin...

Hidden Familial Control and Third-Party Contributions: A Jurisprudential Analysis of Relational Injustice

A contribution to one person can enter a relationship in which another actor exercises hidden control over decisions and resources. This paper examines the normative significance of that configuration in specified familial dependency relations. It distinguishes the recipient's ex...

"Designating the Illusory as Real?": Reality Distinctions When Humans and Artificial Intelligence Jointly Constitute the Conditions of Subject Formation

This paper examines the distinction of reality between human and artificial subjects under a future condition in which artificial agents participate directly in the relational processes through which human subjects are formed. The inquiry is organized around a philosophical thoug...

After the Erosion of Symbolic Scarcity: A Political Economy of Aesthetic Symbols, Relational Anchoring, and Existential Encounter

Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly expanding the supply of aesthetically sophisticated images, prose, styles, atmospheres, and other symbolic forms. This development does not eliminate scarcity from aesthetic and cultural life, but it raises a political-economic questi...

After the Erosion of Symbolic Scarcity: A Political Economy of Aesthetic Symbols, Relational Anchoring, and Existential Encounter

Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly expanding the supply of aesthetically sophisticated images, prose, styles, atmospheres, and other symbolic forms. This development does not eliminate scarcity from aesthetic and cultural life, but it raises a political-economic questi...

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...

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...