Essays

Conviction Formation Theory And Related Essays

2026

• Conviction Formation Theory
  A cycle of essays about what can carry thinking and action amid competing convictions and standards, without certainty or a final foundation.

• Formal Reconstruction And Conviction Formation
  An essay on whether formal reconstruction is the only defensible way to participate in conviction formation.

• The Given And The Goal. Structured Approaches To Recursive Examination (in progress)
  A CFT-based project developing two interacting sides of recursive examination: what is given in a problem and what the inquiry is trying to achieve. It attempts to develop a repertoire of paradigmatic recurring aspects of problems and forms of inquiry.

• CFT And Ethics (in progress)
  An exploratory investigation of ethical inquiry from within CFT.

• A Wider View Of CFT (in progress)
  A concluding reflection on the structure that emerged across CFT and the related essays.

Other Essays

2026

• Recursion Tables
  A visual notation for making the structure of recursive definitions easier to inspect and compare.