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ADR-003: Ten more topics, seven of them grouped as philosophy

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Context

The survey of the anthology’s journal for work it set aside as out of scope (curation entry of 2026-09-25, 22:30) found 70 candidates for this record, and 14 of them wanted a word the nine seed topics lack: information-theoretic work (The Work Capacity of Channels with Memory, the one scope decline the anthology named by title), economics, psychology and anthropology, and linguistics. The close readings of the day had already strained the vocabulary from the other side: Bourrat and the coarse-graining account of individuality are about identity and parts and wholes; the emergence pair is metaphysics as much as complex systems; Gelman’s post is research ethics.

The owner asked for the three missing words and for a philosophy sub-vocabulary, asking whether luria supports union vocabularies.

Decision

Add ten terms to topics, each with a label and a blurb: information-theory, social-science, linguistics, and metaphysics, mereology, agency, identity, ethics, consciousness, cognition.

Declare the seven philosophy words as a tag group on LIT.tags:

groups:
  philosophy: {require: any, tags: [metaphysics, mereology, agency,
               identity, ethics, consciousness, cognition]}

Union vocabularies do not exist in luria 0.31.0, the latest release; the nearest construct is the tag group — a named, labelled, blurbed subset of one field’s vocabulary (luria TagGroup; require may be any, at-most-one or exactly-one). With require: any it is exactly a sub-vocabulary: a label over its members that constrains nothing. The words live in the one topics table, so there is still a single place each is defined and blurbed.

cognition sits in the philosophy group because the survey’s cases were philosophy of mind and cognitive science; a cognition paper measured in tissue still takes neuroscience first.

Alternatives

  • A separate philosophy vocabulary on a second field — rejected: every view reads tags, and a work about identity and complex systems would carry its subject in two fields that nothing relates.
  • One philosophy topic — rejected: the cases already split into metaphysics, mereology, identity and ethics, and a single word would be the “nearest wrong tag” the vocabulary’s own alert warns against.
  • philosophy-of-science and control-theory — held back: one work each in the survey. Added when a second arrives.

Consequences

Existing works retagged where a new word is justifiably appropriate (a secondary tag; the primary is unchanged): Bourrat (identity, mereology), the emergence review and its counterpoint and the theme-issue editorial (metaphysics), Fuchs’s thesis (information-theory), Gelman’s post (ethics). The 70 survey candidates are seeded against the enlarged vocabulary.

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