Paper statuses — A work’s standing in this record: whether it is worth reading. Not whether its findings are true — that is the THEORY scheme’s business, and the two can disagree in either direction.
Unreviewed — in the corpus, not yet read closely enough to place, and no failed search for a copy is recorded — nobody has tried yet, or reading stopped at the abstract or a skim.
9 of 2004 LIT documents. Back to the full index.
| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIT-1206 v2 | Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations | Joint Task Force (2020). NIST Special Publication 800-53, Revision 5: the catalogue of security and privacy controls for federal information systems and organizations, among them separation of duties (AC-5) and least privilege (AC-6). | Deferred — filed 2026-10-18; reading stopped at a skim on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1375), from NIST’s own PDF: the front matter, Chapters One and Two, and from the catalogue AC-3(2), AC-5, AC-6, AC-7, AU-9, CM-5(4), MP-6(7) and PM-12, about a tenth of 492 pages. A catalogue is consulted rather than read through; the controls the record cites are read, and they name collusion as the risk separation of duties leaves. |
| LIT-1216 v2 | Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats, Seventh Edition | Software Engineering Institute (2022). Twenty-two best practices for mitigating insider threat, drawn from the CERT Division’s analysis of more than 3,000 insider-threat cases, each with quick wins, mitigations and mappings to security and privacy standards. | Deferred — filed 2026-10-18; reading stopped at a skim on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1355), from the SEI’s own PDF (175 pages): the front matter, the introduction with its data page, and three of the twenty-two best practices in full, 15 (separation of duties and least privilege), 21 (positive incentives) and 22 (learning from past incidents). The other nineteen practices and the appendices are unread. |
| LIT-1609 v2 | Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means | Herd & Moynihan (2018). Learning, compliance and psychological costs in people’s encounters with the state are policy choices that shape who gets benefits and rights, and they fall unequally; burdens can restrict access without any formal change to eligibility. | Deferred — filed 2026-10-27; reading stopped at a skim on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1382): only the Introduction (pp. 1–14), from the Russell Sage Foundation’s free excerpt, was read. No lawful free copy of the whole book was found: OpenAlex reports it closed, Project MUSE lists it as not open access, and the publisher’s page offers only the contents, the authors’ note and the introduction. The introduction supports the summary. Read it knowing that one figure there is inconsistent ($1.2 billion stated as 1.2 percent of GDP). |
| LIT-1926 | Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality | Wimsatt (2007), DOI-10.2307/j.ctv1pncnrh. Essays on heuristics, robustness, reduction and emergence; the source LIT-188 cites for generative entrenchment (a structure that later ones depend on, so that perturbing it is catastrophic while perturbing them is tolerable) and for aggregativity. Unread here. | Deferred — filed 2026-11-01, not read. Registered as the source of generative entrenchment, the mechanism Griesemer and Shavit (LIT-188, §2) say drives the transition from conexus to community. A book (Harvard University Press); no reading was attempted. |
| LIT-1927 | Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties | Bourrat (2022 online; 2025 in print), DOI-10.1086/719118. As Griesemer and Shavit report it (LIT-188, §2), a transition in individuality can start from ecological scaffolding that imposes Darwinian properties on collectives from outside, and it completes only when the collectives “endogenize” those properties, so that they survive release from the scaffold; otherwise the collective is “de-Darwinized”. Unread here. | Deferred — filed 2026-11-01, not read. Registered because Griesemer and Shavit (LIT-188, §2) build their “missing ingredient” on it. OpenAlex marks it open access (hybrid) at the publisher. No reading was attempted. |
| LIT-1932 | Development, Culture, and the Units of Inheritance | Griesemer (2000), DOI-10.1086/392831. Against developmental systems theory’s expanded replicator, an account of inheritance as reproduction with material overlap and development, which yields a new unit, the reproducer, in which genetic and developmental roles cannot be separated. From the abstract; unread. | Deferred — filed 2026-11-01, not read. Registered because Griesemer and Shavit’s account of community reproduction (LIT-188, §3) is this paper’s account of inheritance carried to social groups. OpenAlex reports it closed; a CiteSeerX record of a submitted version is listed there and was not tried. |
| LIT-1935 | Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution? | Shavit & Sharon (2023), DOI-10.1098/rstb.2021.0413. Asks whether an evolutionary-transition-in-individuality perspective can clarify the disputed cause, tempo and role of intention in the Neolithic shift in the southern Levant; it offers “a fresh lens”, not a solution, stressing within- and between-group differences. From the abstract; unread. | Deferred — filed 2026-11-01, not read. The companion paper to LIT-188 in the same theme issue, and the source of its one worked illustration. Open access (CC BY) at PubMed Central as PMC9869441; no reading was attempted. |
| LIT-1937 | The Units of Evolutionary Transition | Griesemer (2000/2001), DOI-10.1556/Select.1.2000.1-3.7. Maynard Smith’s principle of multiplication is elaborated into a general account of reproduction integrating heredity and development at every level of the hierarchy; this yields the reproducer, generalizing the replicator, and a revised theory of evolutionary transitions with a three-stage scenario. From the abstract; unread. | Deferred — filed 2026-11-01, not read. Registered because it is the source of the reproducer-based account of transitions that Griesemer and Shavit (LIT-188, §2) lean on to treat demic groups as candidate higher-level reproducers. OpenAlex reports it closed. No reading was attempted. |
| LIT-1940 | Ecological scaffolding and the evolution of individuality | Black, Bourrat & Rainey (2020), DOI-10.1038/s41559-019-1086-9. A model in which an ecological scaffold, patchy resources with a regime of dispersal, imposes Darwinian properties on collectives of cells before any collective-level mechanism exists, so that selection can act on collectives from the start. Unread here; described from LIT-188 §2 and the record’s Bourrat readings. | Deferred — filed 2026-11-01, not read. Registered as the model Bourrat’s endogenization account and Griesemer and Shavit’s §2 (LIT-188) rest on. No reading was attempted. |