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The engineering principles of concept formation

A transdisciplinary research initiative studying distinction and its dynamics — across philosophy, formal logic, cognitive science, and the technologies that depend on them.

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Research

Five domains of one apparatus.

If concept formation has engineering principles, those principles apply wherever concepts form — in philosophy, in formal systems, in machine learning, in lived experience.

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Publications

Forthcoming.

A selection of papers and talks, spring–summer 2026.

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Folding with the Machine: Recursive Co-Construction in Large Language Models

Politecnico di Torino (Jun 2026)

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The Fold as Dialogue: Toward a Recursive Formalism

University of Konstanz (Jun 2026)

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From Smoothing to Stability: Contradiction, Delay, and the Development of Resilient Minds with AI

CSIC Madrid (Jun 2026)

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The Failure of Reflection: Différance, Stabilization, and the Resistance to Crystallization

École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris (Jul 2026)