Emerging technologies disrupt the fundamental concepts through which we make sense of the world (Hopster & Löhr 2023, Marchiori & Scharp 2024, Anderson et al 2026).
Democratic legitimacy relies on public reason — the exchange of reasons that citizens and officials can reasonably accept — yet public reason is not static. How, and under what conditions, do public reasons change?
While the concept of differential disruption has attracted growing attention in the ethics of technology, its normative dimensions remain underexplored.