Literature Review — Coding Workbench
NVivo-style close reading over readings.db · AI value alignment corpus, coded by the /phd-reader pipeline.
61
Sources coded
373
Units (verbatim)
459
Code applications
47
Codes (12 emergent)
144
Analytic memos
448
Matrix cells
Most-applied codes
Coded sources by year
Themes at a glance
| Theme | Supports | Complicates | Contradicts | Silent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1-ISOUGHT-OPEN — The field states the is/ought gap but never closes it | 7 | 3 | 2 | 44 |
| T2-PREFERENTISM-BROKEN — Preferentism has collapsed under convergent multi-front attack | 11 | 4 | 0 | 41 |
| T3-PROCEDURALISM-INCOMPLETE — The procedural turn cannot discharge the normative question | 7 | 7 | 0 | 42 |
| T4-ROSSIAN-DEMAND — The literature demands Rossian weighing machinery without naming it | 10 | 4 | 0 | 42 |
| T5-AGENCY-DENIED-EVALUABILITY-KEPT — Moral agency is denied while normative evaluability is retained, on assumption | 14 | 1 | 2 | 39 |
| T6-RESPONSIBILITY-UNALLOCATED — Responsibility is affirmed as distributed and allocated by no one | 8 | 9 | 0 | 39 |
| T7-AGENTIC-BREAKS-FRAMES — Agentic AI breaks the dyadic pre-agentic frame of every major framework | 9 | 5 | 0 | 42 |
| T8-NONWESTERN-CONCEDED — The non-Western gap is conceded by the field itself | 3 | 4 | 0 | 49 |