The open corpus
The record Elder reasons from.
Every work below is public domain and serving in the corpus today. Each entry links to the exact edition ingested, so any passage Elder cites can be checked against its source.
The library
Contemplative
The traditions that made attention, mortality and conduct their subject.
67 works
Civilizational
Long-memory histories: how orders were held together and how they came apart.
19 works
Leadership and Conscience
The interior record of accountable command — the weight carried, first-hand.
10 works
Cognitive Science and Decision Research
How judgment actually behaves under load, as observed rather than assumed.
10 works
Decision Theory and Reasoning Under Uncertainty
The formal account of what it means to reason well when the outcome is unknown.
14 works
Catastrophic Risk and Irreversibility
Decisions whose losses do not come back — plagues, ruin, one-way doors.
9 works
Applied Ethics in Adversarial Domains
Conduct where the other side is not cooperating and the stakes are people.
9 works
Failure Modes of Cognition and Machine Reasoning
Commission reports and post-mortems: the anatomy of how reasoning fails in institutions.
17 works
Forecasting and Calibration
Track-record evidence for what calibrated judgment does differently.
3 works
Material Constraints
The physical and biological boundaries no amount of cleverness relaxes.
5 works
Adversarial Strategy
How an opposing will changes the structure of the decision problem.
10 works
Institutional Dynamics
Drift, capture and agency loss as mechanisms rather than anecdotes.
9 works
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Counts and entries are generated at build time from Elder's corpus registry — nothing on this page is typed by hand. Works held back for licensing or source reasons are not listed.