Credence before binary knowledge.
Belief is treated as a graded evidential posture, revisable in response to uncertainty, alternatives, and defeaters.
Research program
Calibrated confidence and repairable rationality.
A connected program spanning epistemology, credencing, metaethics, evidence standards, rational disagreement, and AI-assisted inquiry.
Conceptual framework
Four connected lines of inquiry
The topics share one diagnostic question: does confidence remain answerable to available evidence?
Make confidence auditable.
Claims should state their support, confidence range, live alternatives, and the evidence that would trigger an update.
Value without a moral realm.
Moral language compresses affect, preference, vulnerability, social coordination, and proposed regulation without requiring stance-independent moral facts.
Prosthetic, not oracle.
AI can widen search and simulate objections, but its output still requires source traceability, calibration, and human update discipline.
Epistemic architecture
Evidence, perception, credence, and speech are separate layers.
Separating the layers avoids treating disagreement, uncertainty, ignorance, rationalization, and bad faith as one blunt failure.
Evidence available
What information, base rates, testimony, observations, and alternatives are actually accessible?
Evidence perceived
Which parts of that situation does the agent notice, understand, or suppress?
Confidence assigned
Does the resulting credence track the evidence as the agent understands it?
Commitment expressed
Does public language preserve uncertainty, or inflate partial belief into flat certainty?
Selected papers
Research entry points
Start with these representative publication records, then continue to the full first-party index.
Warranted Uncertainty
Confidence, evidence, and the discipline of leaving room for live alternatives.
Credence Grammar
The public language required to communicate partial belief without fake precision.
The Parsimonious World of the Moral Non-Realist
What remains of value and human stakes after removing a stance-independent moral realm.
AI as Deep Rationality Prosthetic
AI as a tool for search, comparison, and objection rather than an epistemic oracle.