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The library

The technical corpus.

The framework's documents in their rigorous form, for readers who want the full argument. New to the ideas? Start with the framework overview instead.

These pages use the framework's terms directly and assume some background. Each document is marked Verified (the author has read the public page and signed off) or Working draft (published, final author pass still to come).

The argument

The load-bearing case for the framework, built step by step.

Aperture Ethics (working title) Working draft
The why — the problem the framework exists to solve

Core theory

The structural theory of value and its parts.

The Primary Axiom Working draft
The One Thing the Framework Asks You to Grant
Aperture Ethics Working draft
A Theory of Moral Foundation Based on Consciousness as Disclosure
Stake-Geometry Working draft
A Structural Theory of Value Grounded in the Topology of Mattering
Tiered Values Working draft
The three earlier documents established where value comes from (aperturality), how it is weighted in any given case (stake-geometry), a…
Goods Working draft
The foundational documents established where value comes from (aperturality), how it is weighted in any given case (stake-geometry), ho…
Network Universality Working draft
The two foundational frameworks — aperturality (value enters the universe through conscious viewpoints) and stake-geometry (the structu…
Relations Between Apertures Working draft
The earlier documents in this project treated apertures and stake-geometries largely as individual structures. They specified where val…
The Mass Model Working draft
Quantity, Arrangement, and Movement in a Stake-Geometry
The Grounding Landscape Working draft
Where Stake-Geometry Sits Among the Ways Ethics Can Be Grounded

Known weaknesses

What the framework concedes, and where.

Unified Weaknesses Working draft
The Aperture and Stake-Geometry Weakness Lists, Merged into One
Density and Standing Working draft
A Refinement of Known Weakness #5 in Stake-Geometry
The Grounding Skeptic Working draft
Why Is Stake-Collapse Bad At All?
Joints and Bundles Working draft
A Refinement of Known Weakness #3 in Stake-Geometry

Applications

The framework put to work on real domains and hard cases.

Applied Ethics Working draft
The four foundational documents established where value comes from (aperturality), how it is weighted in any given case (stake-geometry…
Catalogue of Goods Working draft
How to read this catalogue
Political Philosophy Working draft
The foundational documents established where value comes from (aperturality), how it is weighted (stake-geometry), how private matterin…
The Ethics of War Working draft
The political philosophy document worked out what the framework implies about how human beings should govern themselves: it rules out f…
Punishment and Consequences Working draft
The political philosophy document named punishment the framework's hardest open political problem and called it "the richest thread to …
Child Soldiers Working draft
The war document reached child soldiers in a single sentence: their use is "among the gravest wrongs in war precisely because it combin…
Animal Ethics Working draft
Apertures, Stake-Geometry, and the Treatment of Non-Human Minds
Love Working draft
Love is the phenomenon that exercises nearly the whole framework at once, which is why the natural question about it — is love a value,…
The Cure They Don't Want Working draft
Someone you love is sick. The illness is curable, and the cure is simple: a single injection, very safe, with only a small chance of si…
Emotion-First Morality and Moral Dumbfounding Working draft
A widely shared piece of popular moral psychology makes a clean, confident claim: morality is emotional first and rational second; the …
Service, Status, and Expression Working draft
A Worked Case: May a Business Refuse a Same-Sex Wedding on Religious Grounds?
Immoral Choices in Video Games — An Application Working draft
A frontier case for the framework: what to make of choosing immoral options in video games. It runs four linked questions through the a…
The Philosophy Experiments Under the Framework Working draft
A Consistency Stress-Test Across Fourteen Moral Thought-Experiments

Reference

Canonical vocabulary and the distinctions the corpus depends on.

Terminology Working draft
Terms original to the project, with one-line definitions and home documents. Definitions here are pointers, not replacements; the home …